2025 (Current Year) Special graduate degree programs Specially Offered Degree Programs for Graduate Students Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership
The Psychology of Leadership
- Academic unit or major
- Tokyo Tech Academy for Leadership
- Instructor(s)
- Lorinda Kiyama
- Class Format
- Lecture
- Media-enhanced courses
- -
- Day of week/Period
(Classrooms) - Class
- -
- Course Code
- TAL.C603
- Number of credits
- 100
- Course offered
- 2025
- Offered quarter
- 4Q
- Syllabus updated
- Mar 19, 2025
- Language
- English
Syllabus
Course overview and goals
This course aims to educate students on cutting-edge research in the psychology of leadership. Students will learn the 5R (Readying, Reflecting, Representing, Realizing, and Reporting) tools of Identity Leadership and analyze a real-life world leadership situation through this lens, which they will report on in a short presentation and discussion at an online symposium. The symposium is open to the public, so the students have audience members for their presentations from all over the world. Students are required to submit questions for the keynote speaker in advance and feedback sheets that guarantee that they are listening carefully and thinking critically.
Course description and aims
Participate in a symposium on the Psychology of Leadership as a panel presenter and discussant.
Keywords
leadership, communication, psychology
Competencies
- Specialist skills
- Intercultural skills
- Communication skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Practical and/or problem-solving skills
Class flow
Classes will involve discussion of written and audiovisual materials with roleplays and small presentations.
Course schedule/Objectives
| Course schedule | Objectives | |
|---|---|---|
| Class 1 | Fundamentals of Identity Leadership; Compare and contrast recent leadership psychology with that of the past | Compare and contrast recent leadership psychology with that of the past |
| Class 2 | Fundamentals of Identity Leadership; Compare and contrast recent leadership psychology with that of the past | Compare and contrast recent leadership psychology with that of the past |
| Class 3 | Tools of Identity Leadership: Readying, Reflecting, Representing | Apply the tools of Identity Leadership |
| Class 4 | Tools of Identity Leadership: Realizing & Reporting | Apply the tools of Identity Leadership |
| Class 5 | Prepare a short presentation on Identity Leadership in Global Contexts; Rehearse for Symposium panel presentations and discussions | Apply the tools of Identity Leadership in global contexts |
| Class 6 | Rehearse for Symposium panel presentations and discussions | Prepare a short presentation on Identity Leadership in Global Contexts |
| Class 7 | Symposium on Leadership Psychology; Lecture by overseas leadership psychologist; Short panel presentations and discussion by students (Zoom) | Deliver a short presentation on Identity Leadership in Global Contexts |
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)
The New Psychology of Leadership: Identity, Influence, and Power (2nd edition), by S. Alexander Haslam, Stephen D. Reicher & Michael J. Platow (2020, London: Routledge)
Reference books, course materials, etc.
New Thinking on Leadership: A Global Perspective, edited by Hilarie Owen (2012: London, Keegan Page)等
Evaluation methods and criteria
participation in class 60%
presentation and participation in symposium 40%
Related courses
- TAL.C601 ： Strategic Debate
- TAL.C602 ： Creative Discussion
- TAL.C402 ： Global Communication
Prerequisites
Conversational ability in English
Other
This course is a HyFlex lecture that includes an online class. Students will be required to participate in a public event and an online symposium. During the online class, sufficient means of communication will be ensured by assigning several TAs. (Details of events will be announced separately.)