GSB AUTUMN 2000
491-85 THEORIES OF LEADERSHIP
Professor Marvin Zonis
Office: Rosenwald 201C
Phone: 773-702-8753
Fax: 773-702-0458
E-mail: Marvin.Zonis@gsb.uchicago.edu
TA: Maureen Loughnane
mloughnane@mza-inc.com
COURSE SYLLABUS
WEEK I. LEADERS AND LEADERSHIP: ARE THEY NECESSARY? HOW WOULD YOU
KNOW?
Sonja M. Hunt, “The role of leadership in the construction of reality,” in Leadership:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives (B. Kellerman ed.), pp. 157-178.
James R. Meindl and Sanford B. Ehrlich, “The romance of leadership and the evaluation
of organizational performance.” Academy of Management Journal, March 1987, pp.
91-107.
H. Edward Wrapp, “Good managers don’t make policy decisions.” Harvard Business
Review, September 1967, pp. 91-99.
Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal, “Changing the role of top management:
Beyond systems to people.” Harvard Business Review, May/June 1995, pp. 132142.
WEEKS II AND III: UNDERSTANDING LEADERSHIP: TRADITIONAL VIEWS
“Self Defense: How Telecom Italia Failed to Fend off Olivetti’s Hostile Bid.” Wall Street
Journal Europe, July 12, 1999, p. 1.
Ram Charan and Geoffrey Colvin, “Why CEOs fail.” Fortune, June 21, 1999.
Patricia Sellers, “CEOs in denial.” Fortune, June 21, 1999.
Robert J. House and Ram N. Aditya, “The social scientific study of leadership: Quo
vadis?” Journal of Management vol. 23, no. 3 (1997), 409-473.
David A. Nadler and Michael L. Tushman, “Organizational frame bending: principles
for managing reorientation.” The Academy of Management Executive, vol. III, no. 3
(1989), pp. 194-204.
WEEK IV: THE ORGANIZATION AND THE INDIVIDUAL
Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, pp. 69-143.
Otto F. Kernberg, “Leadership and organizational functioning: Organizational
regression.” International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, vol. 28, no. 1 (1975), pp.
3-25.
WEEK V: BUSINESS LEADERSHIP: CHARISMATIC AND UNCHARISMATIC
Richard E. Hattwick, “Mary Kay Ash.” Journal of Behavioral Economics, Winter 1987, pp.
61-70.
John P. Kotter and John Stengrevics, “Mary Kay Cosmetics, Inc.” Harvard Case, January
1981, pp. 1-13.
Patricia Sellers, “What exactly is charisma?” Fortune, January 15, 1996.
WEEK VI: CHARISMA: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES
Jerome A. Winer, Thomas Jobe, and Carlton Ferrono, “Toward a psychoanalytic theory
of the charismatic relationship.” Annual of Psychoanalysis, vol. XII/XIII (January
1984), pp. 155-175.
Charles Camic, “Charisma: its varieties, preconditions and consequences.” Journal of
Sociological Inquiry, vol. 50 (1980), pp. 5-23.
Boas Shamir, “The charismatic relationship: Alternative explanations and predictions.”
Leadership Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 2 (Summer 1991), pp. 81-104.
WEEK VII: NARCISSISM AND SELF-OBJECTS
Heinz Kohut, “The Separate Developmental Lines of Narcissism and Object Love.”
Chapter 2 in Miriam Elson (Ed.) The Kohut Seminars. W.W. Norton and
Company, 1987, pp. 18-30.
Heinz Kohut, “Early Stages in the Formation of Self-Esteem.” Chapter 3 in Miriam
Elson (Ed.) The Kohut Seminars. W.W. Norton and Company, 1987, pp.31-46.
John T. Marcus, “Transcendence and charisma.” Western Political Quarterly, March 1961,
pp. 236-241.
Jerrold M. Post, “Narcissism and the charismatic leader-follower relationship.” Political
Psychology, vol. 7, no. 4 (December 1986), pp. 675-688.
WEEK VIII: POLITICAL LEADERSHIP: THE SHAH OF IRAN
Marvin Zonis, Majestic Failure: The Fall of the Shah of Iran. Pages 1-22, 61-82, 115-165, 207257. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
WEEK IX: MILITARY-POLITICAL LEADERSHIP: ADOLF HITLER
Walter C. Langer, The Mind of Adolf Hitler. Basic Books, 1972. Pages iv-306.
WEEK X: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES AND CONCLUSION
Susan J. Carroll, “Feminist scholarship on political leadership.” Chapter 7 in Leadership:
Multidisciplinary Perspectives (B. Kellerman, Ed.). Pages 139-156. Prentice-Hall
1984.
Judy B. Rosener, “Ways women lead.” Harvard Business Review, 1990, pp. 119-125.
John Holusha, “Grace Pastiak’s ‘web of inclusion.” New York Times, Sunday, May 5,
1991.
Kathy E. Kram and Marion McCollom Hampton, “When women lead: the visibilityvulnerability spiral.” Chapter 8 in Edward Klein, Faith Gabelnick and Peter Herr
(Eds.), The Psychodynamics of Leadership, pp. 193-218. Madison, CT: Psychosocial
Press, 1998.