Course Overview - PSF402

Leadership et éthique

Delivery Mode

Distance Education, DNDLearn

Summary

This course is unique and rather complex. It is a multidisciplinary course that includes readings from the following academic fields: leadership and management, philosophy, psychology, sociology and military ethics. Thus, this course’s design has to be in keeping with the various academic fields that constitute its raison d’être. This course features three separate yet inter-related modules:

  1. Leadership.
  2. Ethics.
  3. Professionalism.

This course has been designed in accordance with the educational objectives established by the Canadian Forces Recruitment, Education and Training Service.

Thus, the Leadership et éthique course has the following aims:

  • Enable students to develop the necessary aptitude to apply Canadian military leadership and ethics concepts.
  • Enable students to undertake a deontological analysis of the profession of officer.
  • Enable students to take decisions in operational and non-operational military settings.
  • Familiarise students with current work motivation theories and their application in military settings.
  • Increase student awareness of the effects of stress on operational effectiveness and of post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSS) and familiarise students with the role of critical incident stress debriefing (CISD) sessions.

Course Outline

  1. Module 1: Leadership
    1. Lesson 1 – Introduction to Decision-making Power
    2. Lesson 2 – Motivation and Performance
    3. Lesson 3 – Groups and Group Dynamics
    4. Lesson 4 – Leadership and Power
  2. Module 2: Ethics
    1. Lesson 5 – Introduction to Ethics and Morality
    2. Lesson 6 – Ethics Theories I
    3. Lesson 7 – Ethics Theories II
    4. Lesson 8 – Moral Development
    5. Lesson 9 – Deontological Decision-making Models
  3. Module 3: Professionalism
    1. Lesson 10 - Military Professionalism
    2. Lesson 11 – Military Professionals’ Obligations
    3. Lesson 12 – Obedience, Just Warfare and Rights in Armed Conflicts
    4. Lesson 13 - Stress

Evaluation

Activity Due Date Weight
Presentation on DNDLearn Friday of Week 1 0 %
Assignment # 1 (Module 1) Friday of Week 6 20 %

Discussions on DNDLearn (Module 1)

Once per week

10 %

Assignment # 2 (Module 2) Friday of Week 11 25 %

Discussions on DNDLearn (Module 2)

Once per week

10 %

Assignment # 3 (Module 3) Friday of Week 14 25 %

Discussions on DNDLearn (Module 3)

Once per week

10 %

Total   100%

Course Material

Textbooks and Reader

  • Dolan, S.L., Gosselin, E., Carrière, J. Psychologie du travail et comportement organisationnel. 3e édition. Montréal : Gaëtan Morin Éditeur, 2007.
  • Billier, J.C. Introduction à l'éthique. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2010
  • PSF402 – Recueil de textesv6

Note: the course material listed above may be subject to change. Students should not obtain their material in advance based on this list.

Other material

  • All other course material is accessible online.

RMCC reserves the right to amend course overviews without notice. The information in the course has precedence over this overview.