Center & Faculty Accomplishments

Programs for Academic Year 2008-2009

The Ukleja Center for Ethical Leadership will offer several educational programs for the business and professional communities during the current and 2008-2009 academic years.

First, the Ukleja Center will continue to offer Leadership Roundtable executive briefings in collaboration with LeadershipTraQ.

Second, the Ukleja Center offers a number of educational programs for the faculty, students, and community. For more information, please visit Student Resources, Educational Initiatives, and Community Outreach.

Center Accomplishments

Since Sept. 2007 the Ukleja Center for Ethical Leadership has completed the following programs:

In Oct. 2007 the Ukleja Center for Ethical Leadership welcomed its first William Dickson Leader-in-Residence, Dr. Robert Lorber, President of Lorber Kamai Consulting Group and co-author of Putting the One Minute Manager to Work. Dr. Lorber was able to share his governance insights with faculty, students, and community leaders.

The Center’s Ethics Across the Curriculum initiative, which grants pedagogical stipends to faculty members who integrate a 3-hour ethics module within their courses, recently selected six faculty proposals from various colleges and disciplines. Congratulations to all recipients, and to the many students that will benefit.

In its second year, the California Student Leadership Institute has 19 students enrolled and features guest speakers sharing ethical challenges from multiple organizations such as JetBlue Airways and Boeing Company. to engage in service learning. This year, for the service learning component, students chose to volunteer at Camp Ronald McDonald for Good Times with pediatric cancer patients and their families.

Finally, Ethics at the Beach, a half-day on-campus ethics seminar for students, is scheduled for April 18, 2008. Dr. James Manseau Sauceda, Director of the CSULB Multicultural Center, Patricia Eyres, Attorney at Law, and Kurtis Oakley, Ethics Program Manager at Northrup Grumman Corporation, will be sharing their expertise on ethical communication in a global society.

Ethics in Governance Conference Presentations (PDF Documents)

College Accomplishments

The College of Business Administration presently offers the following four courses that have a business ethics component: BLAW 320 Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business (undergraduate-level), BLAW 520 Legal, Regulatory, and Ethical Environment of Business (graduate), BLAW 624 Cyberlaw, and MGMT 326 Management and Society.

The College recently developed jointly with the College of Liberal Arts (Department of Philosophy) CBA 400/PHIL 400 Business Ethics, which be offered starting the 2005/06 academic year as a team-taught course that will satisfy the University's General Education Capstone requirement.

The College of Liberal Arts also offers the following three ethics courses: PHIL 362I Ethics and Computer Technology, PHIL 363 Ethical Theory, and PHIL 403I Medical Ethics.

To date, the College of Business Administration has organized the following Leadership Roundtable executive briefings for the community:

"The Supply and Demand of World Energy," Peter Davies (BP Chief Economist), 2001
"Global Financial Market in Turbulent Times," Morgan Stanley, Trust Company of the West, and Citibank, 2001
"Leading in Tough Times," Ken Blanchard, 2002
"Crisis Leadership-Preparing for the Unthinkable: The New Competitive Edge," Ian I. Mitroff ( University of Southern California), 2002
"Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: The Key to Maximizing Performance," Joseph L. Mancusi (President, Center for Organizational Excellence), 2002
"Influential Communication: Powerful Collaboration," Michael Brandwein, 2003
"Good Ethics = Good Business," Marianne M. Jennings ( Arizona State University), 2003
"WICS: A New Theory of Leadership Incorporating Wisdom, Intelligence, and Creativity, Synthesized," Robert J. Sternberg (President, American Psychological Association), 2004
"Reinventing Government," Bob Stone (author of the best-seller Confessions of a Civil Servant), 2004

The College also conducted ten faculty breakfast briefings for members of the Leadership Roundtable. Of these briefings, the following focused on research issues related to the Ukleja Center for Ethical Leadership:

"Eight Tracks to Personal and Organizational Transformation," Ralph H. Kilmann (Visiting Scholar and author of Quantum Organizations ), 2002
"Organizational Norms for Communicating: How Do New Hires Learn the Ropes?,"Jenny W. Gilsdorf (Business Communication), 2002
"The 4 Ps of Motion Picture Piracy and How to Cope with Them,"Terrence H. Witkowski, 2002
"Leadership Style and Group Creativity: One Size Does Not Fit All," Linda A. O'Hara (Management/HRM), 2002
"Ethics and Values in Corporate America: The Good, the Bad, and the Possible," Arthur M. Levine (Business Law), 2003
"Equity in the Workplace," Ted H. Shore (Management/HRM), 2003
"The Contagious Leader: Impact of Leader's Emotion on Group Effectiveness," Tom Sy (Management/HRM), 2004