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STUDY ABROAD

Philosophy, Business & Personal Development

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

• Enquire into principles and concepts behind commercial activities and organizational structures.
• Clarify the vision of a company within the society and the executive role of its leaders.
• Contribute with thoughts from the group and the facilitator as building guiding elements of the decision making process.
• Strengthen each personal philosophy and getting actively involved in responsible self-development.

PROGRAM STRUCTURE:

• How philosophy concepts impact the creation of human enterprises.
• Analysis of some political and philosophical theories. Their consequences in the economies and on the way people think and live.
• The idea of the State and its function according to Plato, Hobbes, Locke and Rousseau.
• Group debate: Doing things right or doing the right things?
• De-brief and conclusions.

• Ethical Leadership.
• What a company can do apart from money.
• What executives are responsible for?
• An Intelligent model of Management.
• Means and ends. Reaching objectives at any cost.
• Ethics and Social Responsibility. The macro vision of businessmen.
• Need to tune in with surrounding reality.

• Directors and Company Leaders as builders of the future.
• Importance of Criteria in organizational Philosophy.
• The multiple impacts of Decision making.
• Role of Trust and Hope in business.
• Leadership Attitude.
• Cynicism and success.
• Individual development of the Leader.
• Personal power, associations and performance.
• Personal Excellence.
• Group debate: Being better to perform better. Conclusions.

COURSE METHODOLOGY

This workshop will facilitate the analysis on some of the issues developed in a environment of participative dialogue. Lectures will be supported by a presentation followed by a session of questions, discussion and dialogue.Presentations will be enriched with group contributions seeking for the best way to implement the considered topics.

Additional reading will be suggested to support included reading .

This program begins on January 10 2011

(*)Price Per Person: $1,860

(*)Rates are subject to change and depend on avalability. The current budget is based on rates quoted by June 2010. Rates may change according to the season the reservations are made for (High or Low Season), and according to the availability on flights for the required dates.

For more information

international@iuean.edu.ar