Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (EUR) • Liberal Arts and Sciences

A 7-page summary of a lecture given by Wander van Baalen for the course Leadership Studies (ECB206) at Erasmus University College (EUC). Topics of this lecture include: discovering where the statistic that 70% of change initiatives fail comes from; Kurt Lewin's change management model (unfreezing, changing, refreezing); Lewin's force-field analysis; criticisms and relevancy of Lewin's model; and a guided reading of an article.

A 21-page summary of the readings of PBL #3: Followers and Leaders for the course Leadership Studies (ECB206) given at Erasmus University College (EUC). These readings include Chapter 9: Dyadic Theories and Followership from the textbook Leadership in Organizations (8th edition) by Gary Yukl; Zhang and Bednall's article named "Antecedents of Abusive Supervision: A Meta-Analytic Review"; Graen and Uhl-Bien's article named "Relationship-Based Approach to Leadership: Development of Leader Memb...

A 6-page document of class notes of a lecture given by Micha Smit M.D. for the course Leadership Studies (ECB206) at Erasmus University College (EUC). Topics include the relation between neuroscience and leadership studies; right/left brain differences; coherence; and psychological techniques to improve engagement one-on-one (empathic statements, creating safety, genuineness, expertise, cooperation).

A 12-page document of class notes of a lecture given by Lucas Meijs for the course Leadership Studies (ECB206) at Erasmus University College (EUC). Topics include: civil society; voluntary failures (particularism, paternalism, amateurism); three types of organizations in civil society (service delivery, mutual support, campaigning); leadership challenges for the civil society; social enterprises; NGO governance; definitions of volunteer work; types of volunteer energy; hyphenated volunteering; a...

A 34-page summary of the readings for PBL #6: Narcissistic and Charismatic Leadership of the course Leadership Studies (ECB206) given at Erasmus University College (EUC). These readings include Chapter 6: Traits and Skills of Leaders and Chapter 12: Theories of Charismatic and Transformational Leadership from the textbook Leadership in Organizations (8th edition) by Gary Yukl; Rosenthal and Pittinsky's article named "Narcissistic Leadership"; and Chatterjee and Hambrick's article named "It’s A...

A 25-page summary of the readings for PBL #5: The Third Sector of the course Leadership Studies (ECB206) given at Erasmus University College (EUC). These readings include Chapter 19: The Challenge of Leadership for the Third Sector by Alex Murdock; Hodges and Howieson's article named "The Challenges of Leadership in the Third Sector"; Brudney and Meijs' article named "Models of Volunteer Management: Professional Volunteer Program Management in Social Work"; and Geer, Maher, and Cole's article na...

A 29-page summary of the readings for PBL #4: Ethical Leadership for the course Leadership Studies (ECB206) given at Erasmus University College (EUC). These readings include: Chapter 13 of the textbook Leadership in Organizations (8th edition) by Gary Yukl; Trevino, Hartman, and Brown's article "Moral Person and Moral Manager: How Executives Develop a Reputation for Ethical Leadership"; Heres and Lasthuizen's article "What’s the Difference? Ethical Leadership in Public, Hybrid, and Private Sec...

An online lecture about ethical leadership, given by Dr. Helen Verhoeven at Erasmus University College (EUC) for the course Leadership Studies. Topics discussed include reasons for studying ethical leadership; effects of ethical behavior; the definition of ethics and ethical leadership; ethical theories (conduct and character: ethical egoism, utilitarianism, altruism, deontological theories, virtue-based theories); ethical decision-making models; determinants of ethical leadership; stages of cog...

An online lecture given by Hodar Lam at Erasmus University College (EUC) for the course Leadership Studies. This lecture discusses the two-factor theory of leadership; leader-member exchange (LMX) theory, its 3 stages (role taking, role making, and role routinization), and its criticism; perceived similarity; self-disclosure; abusive supervision and leader/follower factors; leader loneliness, its antecedents, and possible interventions; and more.

A 14-page summary of the readings for PBL #2: Managing Change of the course Leadership Studies given at Erasmus University College (EUC). These readings include: (1) Chapter 4: Change Leadership from the textbook Leadership in Organizations (8th edition) by Gary Yukl; (2) Kotter's article named "Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail"; (3) Reichers, Wanous, and Austin's article named "Understanding and Managing Cynicism about Organizational Change"; and (4) Karp and Helg's article named...