Week5: My Final Project Outline

Hi there. In this post, I am giving my outline of my research paper. Although this can be changed, I am going to conduct research following this structure anyways.

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Ken, Enochs

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Yu Ito

20 January 2015

Thesis Statement and Outline

Thesis Statement: Successful leaders should cultivate empathy but this is not sufficient for them: leaders ought to be aware of cultural variation in an organization and therefore, they should acquire cultural empathy for the success in today’s globalization era.

 

Outline:

Ⅰ. Introduction

   A. Background information

   B. Thesis statement

Ⅱ. Empathy

   A. What is “empathy”? –Definition and explanation of empathy

   B. Why is empathy important for leaders? – Connection between empathy and successful leadership

   C. Example of empathy as a leadership skill

Ⅲ. Cultural Empathy

   A. What is “cultural empathy”? –Definition and explanation of cultural empathy

   B. Why is cultural empathy important for leaders now?

1. Connection between cultural empathy and successful leaders

2. Reasons why only empathy is not sufficient and cultural empathy is required for leaders

   C. Example of cultural empathy as a leadership skill (Carlos Ghosn)

Ⅳ. Conclusion

   A. Summary

   B. Restatement of thesis

Obviously,  my research outline looks rough and actually I am now thinking who could be a good example of "a leader who has empathy". If you have any suggestion, feel free to comment or inform me~.