Course ID: | MGMT 7010. 3 hours. |
Course Title: | Lessons in Leadership |
Course Description: | Leadership skills necessary for managerial work. Class activities are varied, including experiential exercises, discussions, case analyses, and collaborative learning. Activities focus on leadership skills, such as self-awareness, stress management, decision-making, feedback, listening, power and influence, motivation, empowerment, building effective teams, and self-leadership. |
Oasis Title: | Lessons in Leadership |
Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in MGMT 7010E |
Semester Course Offered: | Offered every year. |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | Course Objectives:
To provide students with the understanding that the development of leadership
capabilities requires processing feedback about oneself to improve personal
effectiveness.
To expose students to the theories and research findings that identify important
follower and situational variables that influence leadership effectiveness.
To present students with information on the behaviors and skills that affect
one's ability to influence individuals at various levels in the organization.
Students will have a better understanding of how to successfully manage their
relationships with supervisors, subordinates, coworkers, and team members to
accomplish goals.
Students will acquire knowledge about practices that improve an individual's
ability to enhance the performance of others |
Topical Outline: | Topics:
Role of personality
Theory of attitude formation and link to behaviors
Summary of leadership research findings on personality, attitudes, values
and cognitive factors
Task-orientation and Relationship-orientation
Contingency model of leadership
Path-Goal theory
Situational leadership model
Transformational/Transactional leadership
Theories about followers
Normative Decision Model
Bases of power
Influence tactics
Theories of motivation
Leading traditional, self-managed, and virtual teams
Functional and dysfunctional conflict
Conflict-management styles
Performance feedback
Mentoring
Empowerment and delegation practices
Managing diversity |
Honor Code Reference: | All students are responsible for maintaining the highest standards of
honesty and integrity in every phase of their academic careers. The
penalties for academic dishonesty are severe and ignorance is not an
acceptable defense.
Academic honesty means performing all academic work without plagiarizing,
cheating, lying, tampering, stealing, receiving assistance from any other
person or using any source of information that is not common knowledge. |