Course Overview

[NOTE: This course follows Booth University College's schedule and will be delivered on Booth's online course platform Populi.]

Trace the nature and development of leadership in The Salvation Army, explore how it relates to leadership in general and to the Church in particular, and consider the challenges the Army’s leadership model faces in the contemporary world.

It should be clear that this does not purport to be a course inculcating the principles and best practice of leadership in general, although the student may well draw conclusions about these matters from a study of the Salvation Army’s history, with which this course is concerned.

Areas reviewed in this course on aspects of leadership in The Salvation Army include:

1. The evolution of the function and status of Salvation Army officers in the context of the Army and of church as a whole.
2. Women in leadership within The Salvation Army. To what degree were/are women equally officers?
3. The extent to which The Salvation Army is able to integrate authoritarian, consultative and participative modes of leadership. What are the strengths and weaknesses of each? How far is leadership ability the decisive factor and how determining is the structural form within which it is exercised?

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Dr. Michael Puddicombe

Sessional Instructor

mike.puddicombe@salvationarmy.ca

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