Lecturer in Negotiating Leadership
Company: Tufts University
Location: Medford
Posted on: April 20, 2024
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Job Description:
Tufts University: The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy
Description
Position Description
Established in 1933 as the first exclusively graduate school of
international affairs in the United States, The Fletcher School
faculty is multi-disciplinary, with a focus on preparing tomorrow's
leaders with a global perspective. The School undertakes research
and prepares masters and doctoral students to use the latest
political, business, economic, and legal thinking, among others, to
generate pragmatic policies or make executive decisions that will
successfully shape global events. Tufts University is a
world-renowned research university dedicated to the creation and
application of knowledge.
The Fletcher School's faculty is multi-disciplinary, with a focus
on preparing tomorrow's leaders with a global perspective. The
successful candidate should be prepared and eager to participate in
this School-wide interdisciplinary dialogue. The School undertakes
research and prepares master's and doctoral students to use the
latest legal, political, economic, business, and other analytical
tools, to generate pragmatic policies and make decisions that will
successfully shape global events. In addition to the Master's in
Law & Diplomacy (MALD) and Master's in Global Affairs (MGA), the
Fletcher School also offers a Master's in International Law (LLM),
a Master's in International Business (MIB), a Master's in Global
Business Administration (GBA), a Global Master of Arts (GMAP), and
a PhD.
The Fletcher School seeks to hire for a Negotiating Leadership
lecturer for the Spring 2024 term in the (GBA) program.
Program overview
The Fletcher School's Master of Global Business Administration is
an online program that combines core business courses with
international relations, economics, and law courses. Students in
the program are mid-career, averaging 38 years old, and they come
from a wide array of sectors including business, NGOs, military,
and public service.
The courses in the GBA program run for a traditional 13-week
semester. Each week students watch about 90 minutes of recorded
content followed by a 90-minute live class session held over Zoom.
The live sessions are interactive and engaging, making connections
between the recorded sessions and readings though active
discussion, breakout rooms, and review of videos when needed. The
recorded course content, course structure, and syllabi have already
been created; this position is designed to teach and facilitate the
live class sessions only.
Specific Course Details: Negotiating Leadership
We seek a lecturer for the Negotiating Leadership course for the
spring term (January - April 2024). This course explores the nature
of leadership in international business and organizational
contexts. For purposes of the course, leadership is defined as the
ability through communications to cause other persons to act
willingly in desired ways for the benefit of a group or
organization. A key premise of the course is an exercise in
negotiation.
An important aim of this course is to understand how leaders
exercise influence inside and outside organizations. The sessions
also examine current-day leadership and negotiation challenges, and
integrate experiential learning through cases and simulations, as
well as leaders and experts as guest speakers. Thiscourse serves as
an elective course for GBA students.
Responsibilities for the position include:
Keywords: Tufts University, Medford , Lecturer in Negotiating Leadership, Other , Medford, Massachusetts
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