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

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

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.