Organization Leadership

Examines theories in leadership and management and analysis of assessing organizational leadership effectiveness. Topics include personal values, spirituality, ethical choices, and social responsibility; the leader's ability to influence workplace and public policy; development of a personal philosophy of effective leadership.

Provides students the opportunity to increase self-awareness and self-management skills for presentation of self and interaction with others in the organizational context. Topics include tenets and theories of emotional intelligence.

Defines and explains theories and praxis of followership. Topics include theories of followership, leadership styles from the follower's perspective, whistleblowing, post-structuralist approaches to identity and workplace followership and analysis of followership in the workplace.

Discusses the role spirituality and religion play in the workplace. Topics include spirituality's effects on the organization's productivity, corporate responsibility, spiritual disciplines in a multi-cultural work environment and spiritual leadership values.

Explores effective professional communication techniques for writing, speaking and listening. Topics include public presentations, formal report and grant writing, and preparation and analysis of policy, routine business communications and meeting facilitation skills.

Provides an opportunity for students to implement an organizational improvement project following the Lean Six Sigma model that meets both customer and business requirements. Topics include demonstration of effective and efficient problem-solving skills that lead to process optimization, change management, and talent application. Students participating in this project will receive regular coaching from the course instructor from the project design stage, through implementation and reporting on the project.

Explores the formulation, implementation, and management of key strategies that will maximize the organization's core competencies, fulfill customers' and other stakeholders' expectations, and create a sustained level of performance excellence. Topics include mission, vision, values, long-and short-range goals and objectives, and various kinds of strategies and controls used to develop the organization's direction and sustain its performance.

Examines the requirements of an effective financial accounting and reporting system and the interpretation of financial reports for proprietary, non-profit, and governmental organizations. Topics include decision processes and models for evaluating finance-related options; investing and managing cash; managing and preventing risk; and allocating financial, human, and capital resources; focus groups decision matrixes, control charts, and other tools to investigate problems, analyze data and information, and identify potential solutions.

Explores concepts and approaches to develop and analyze an organization's relationship with its stakeholders. Topics include development and analysis satisfaction surveys, market analysis, quality function deployment (QFD).

Explores the primary roles of managers and leaders within the context of organizational environments. Topics include economic, technological, political, and social contexts; globalization; organizational life cycles and their impact on organizational culture.

Discusses the role of public relations in customer relations, stakeholder communications, and business development. Topics include marketing tools, ethics and integrity in public communication about the organization, concepts that are essential and adaptable to organizations of any size or type, including nonprofits, government, small businesses, and corporations.

Examines the organizational human resource function and contemporary techniques for managing human resources. Topics include empowerment, legal issues, work force diversity, managing change, recruitment and selection, training and development, compensation, managing relations, and health and safety.