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, 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 organizational 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 addresses the factors influencing human behavior in organizations. Human behavior is considered from the individual, team, and organizational levels of analysis. Concepts included in the study include motivation, leadership, communications, negotiation, conflict resolution, and team building.

This course explores the critical principles and practices of team dynamics, focusing on both theoretical foundations and practical applications of teams in organizational settings. Students will engage in an in-depth analysis of the key functions, concepts, techniques, and vocabulary essential for understanding and leading teams. Emphasizing executive communication, the course develops skills to propose strategies that enhance team effectiveness and address challenges that disrupt team performance.

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 examines international issues and challenges the leaders face. Topics include historical and contemporary perspectives of international leadership and the influence of international cultures and politics on 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 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, the impact of culture and political differences, and coalition-building strategies.

This course explores the theoretical grounding and practical approaches necessary to effectively diagnose organizational problems, develop intervention approaches, and implement organizational solutions. Topics may include entering and contracting, organizational diagnostic models, organizational surveys, change impediments, managing the change process, organizational/interpersonal/group interventions, and evaluation approaches.

This capstone course explores the methods of providing leadership in a firm, or a significant division therein, in the context of 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.