Leadership

Leading organization wide structural and cultural change is a significant challenge facing today's organizations. This course will explore the nature of these changes, the basis for their adoption, and both the management and leadership of organizational change in the 21st century, including issues of managing growth, resistance to change, intervention phases, crisis management, inter and intra-group conflict/power.

This course compares and contrasts the disciplines of leadership and management with an emphasis on fostering organization culture and personal ethics. Topics include historical and contemporary leadership and management theories, current leadership research, and the practice of leadership and management across a wide variety of organizational contexts.

This course focuses on the theories and applications of team building and group dynamics, with an emphasis on leadership opportunities in small and large groups.

This course explores a variety of leadership approaches, with a special emphasis on leading with emotional intelligence. Topics include the roles and functions of messages and messaging activities, empathy and self-awareness, and emotional intelligence used in the practice and outcomes of leadership.

This course explores the theories and applications of coaching and professional development by a leader with individuals on his/her staff. Topics include coaching strategies employed across a variety of situational contexts and organizational and professional development employed by leaders.

This course explores a variety of leadership approaches, with a special emphasis on leading with emotional intelligence. Topics include the roles and functions of messages and messaging activities, empathy and self-awareness, and emotional intelligence used in the practice and outcomes of leadership.

This course explores the theories and applications of single and multiparty negotiations in a wide variety of organizational contexts. Topics may include the exploration of negotiation as an art and science, consideration of negotiating behaviors and characteristics, and strategies to achieve negotiation success for the stakeholders involved.

This course continues to develop applications of single and multiparty negotiations in international organizational contexts. Topics include advanced role playing among different stakeholders, impact of culture and political differences, and coalition building strategies.

This capstone course explores the methods of providing leadership in a firm, or a significant division thereof in an internationally competitive environment. Students will develop an understanding of the way in which general managers integrate leadership and strategy in today's market economy.