2021 Faculty Courses School of Engineering Department of Information and Communications Engineering Graduate major in Engineering Sciences and Design
Leadership
- Academic unit or major
- Graduate major in Engineering Sciences and Design
- Instructor(s)
- Seiichi Yamamoto
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - 9-10 Mon
- Class
- -
- Course Code
- ESD.H407
- Number of credits
- 200
- Course offered
- 2021
- Offered quarter
- 3-4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Jul 10, 2025
- Language
- Japanese
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course provides the way to develop leadership that enables new business creation. The students can learn the essence of leadership, the development process of global leaders, how to generate Ba (shared context) for Human Resource Development, and desirable leadership.
Course description and aims
The goal of this course is to understand the essence of leadership and the development process of global leaders in organizational contexts. Students can take the effective actions about leader and human resource development as entrepreneurs.
Keywords
Leadership, Development Process of Leader, Human Resource Development
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Firstly, students learn the definition and essence of leadership.
Secondly, students learn the development process of global leaders.
Thirdly, students learn the way to generate Ba (shared context) for Human Resource Development in organizational contexts.
Fourthly, students learn the models of desirable leaders through case discussions.
At the end of the course, each student gives a presentation and receives comments.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Introduction What is Leadership? | Explain the essence of leadership. |
| Class 2 | Development process of global leader (1): The direction of problems and solutions | Explain the direction of problems and solutions that related to finding and fostering global leader candidates. |
| Class 3 | Development process of global leader (2): Real examples | Understand the real examples of global leader development process. |
| Class 4 | Development process of global leader (3): Workshop | Get several findings about development process of global leader through the discussion. |
| Class 5 | Development process of global leader (4): Group Presentation and Q&A | Present the findings about development process of global leader to share the idea. |
| Class 6 | Ba for human resource development in organizational context (1): Vision, Philosophy | Explain organizations’ Vision and Philosophy. |
| Class 7 | Ba for human resource development in organizational context (2): Organization structure, Roles | Explain Organization structure and Roles. |
| Class 8 | Ba for human resource development in organizational context (3)：Work process, Tool standardization | Explain Work process and Tool standardization. |
| Class 9 | Ba for human resource development in organizational context (4) ：Evaluation, Job grade, Rewards | Explain Evaluation, Job grade, and Rewards. |
| Class 10 | Desirable leader (1)：Case discussion | Explain the reality of leadership based on the guest speaker’s experience. |
| Class 11 | Desirable leader (2) ：Case discussion | Explain the reality of leadership based on the guest speaker’s experience. |
| Class 12 | Desirable leader (3) ：Briefing by the lecturer | Explain Desirable leader from broader perspective. |
| Class 13 | Presentations and comments (1) | Present what I learnt about leadership. |
| Class 14 | Presentations and comments (2) | Present what I learnt about leadership. |
| Class 15 | Summarization of the course |
Study advice (preparation and review)
To enhance effective learning, students are encouraged to spend approximately 100 minutes preparing for class and another 100 minutes reviewing class content afterwards (including assignments) for each class.
They should do so by referring to textbooks and other course material.
Textbook(s)
See above.
Reference books, course materials, etc.
Supplementary handouts will be provided in class.
Evaluation methods and criteria
Presentation 50%, Term Report 50%
Subject of the Term Report will be announced.
Related courses
- ESD.H403 ： Sales Strategy and Organization
- ESD.H405 ： Product Design and Development
- ESD.H402 ： Social Entrepreneurship
- ESD.H406 ： Marketing Science
- ESD.H404 ： Finance
- ESD.H408 ： Business Law
Prerequisites
None.