Social-psychological interventions for cognitive empathy as leadership ability development in business students
To be a transformational leader, one has to possess cognitive empathy. Based on findings from psychology and promising results from our pilot study conducted with undergraduate management students, we have designed a novel methodology which develops students’ cognitive empathy through the use of a s...
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| description | To be a transformational leader, one has to possess cognitive empathy. Based on findings from psychology and promising results from our pilot study conducted with undergraduate management students, we have designed a novel methodology which develops students’ cognitive empathy through the use of a social-psychological intervention. In order to enhance their cognitive empathy, this intervention exposes students to design thinking methodologies which emphasises the use of one’s empathy. Furthermore, the intervention is adequate enough not to disrupt the precious class time that has been dedicated to content teaching. The goal of this project is to provide a model for developing non-content based learning outcomes, relevant activities, and the measures that connect those activities to the outcomes. The project has been pilot-tested on about 80 students in two course sections of the focal course. We will expand the study to all 400 students in the course and eventually to other programmes. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1447012023-05-19T07:31:15Z Social-psychological interventions for cognitive empathy as leadership ability development in business students Rajaram, Kumaran Nanyang Business School European Academy of Management 2018 Business::General::Education Social-Psychological Interventions Empathy To be a transformational leader, one has to possess cognitive empathy. Based on findings from psychology and promising results from our pilot study conducted with undergraduate management students, we have designed a novel methodology which develops students’ cognitive empathy through the use of a social-psychological intervention. In order to enhance their cognitive empathy, this intervention exposes students to design thinking methodologies which emphasises the use of one’s empathy. Furthermore, the intervention is adequate enough not to disrupt the precious class time that has been dedicated to content teaching. The goal of this project is to provide a model for developing non-content based learning outcomes, relevant activities, and the measures that connect those activities to the outcomes. The project has been pilot-tested on about 80 students in two course sections of the focal course. We will expand the study to all 400 students in the course and eventually to other programmes. Ministry of Education (MOE) The principal investigator and author, Dr. Rajaram would like to acknowledge that this Tertiary Education Research Fund (TRF) project is funded by Ministry of Education, Singapore. 2020-11-20T01:21:12Z 2020-11-20T01:21:12Z 2018 Conference Paper Rajaram, K. (2018). Social-psychological interventions for cognitive empathy as leadership ability development in business students. Proceedings of the European Academy of Management (EURAM). 978-2-9602195-0-0 2466-7498 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/144701 en MOE2016-2-TR05 © 2018 European Academy of Management. All rights reserved. |
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| title | Social-psychological interventions for cognitive empathy as leadership ability development in business students |
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| title_short | Social-psychological interventions for cognitive empathy as leadership ability development in business students |
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