Bus 4405 Leadership

BUS 4405 – LEADERSHIP

Course Description:

This course will support students in acquiring a leadership lens that features intellectual diversity, strategic thinking and managerial competencies needed in today’s business world based on knowledge economy. There are two integrateddimensions of leadership that this course will focus on: organizational and individual. Studying organizational leadership will provide answers to some of the above listed questions while developing an individual leadership skills set will support personal growth of each leader-student.

In this course, students will explore organizational leadership theories as well as examine how to strategically lead self and others while fostering a culture of performance. Students will use tools that leverage organizational and individual development. Through an integration of a variety of these tools, strategies, and theories, the students will develop knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSA) necessary in contemporary leadership development. These will include: individual skills assessment, appreciative inquiry, action planning, understanding group dynamics, tools for transforming groups into teams, mentoring and coaching instruments as well as familiarity with preliminary strategic environmental scans at the organizational level. Students will develop basic leadership KSA that will increase their individual leadership awareness, facilitate growth, and increase appreciation of diversity and business ethics as well as ensure solid relatedness to contemporary leadership issues.

Required Textbook and Materials:

The main required textbooks for this course are listed below, and can be readily accessed using the provided links. There may be additional required/recommended readings, supplemental materials, or other resources and websites necessary for lessons; these will be provided for you in the course’s General Information and Forums area, and throughout the term via the weekly course Unit areas and the Learning Guides.

This course does not contain a main textbook; resources to all required reading will be provided in the course Learning Guide for each week.
Some of the materials for this course can be found in this archive.

Software Requirements/Installation

No special requirements

Learning Objectives and Outcomes:

By the end of this course students will be able to:

1. Examine leadership competencies related to becoming a strategic leader
2. Evaluate transitional strategies and the tools to develop corporate foresight
3. Develop and execute a time management strategy
4. Evaluate a variety of duties and styles of a manager, and those of a leader.
5. Apply diverse approaches to performance measures via mentoring, advising, coaching, negotiating, and resolving conflicts

Course Schedule and Topics

This course will cover the following topics in eight learning sessions, with one Unit per week. The Final Exam will take place during Week/Unit 9.

Week 1: Unit 1– Introduction to Leadership
Week 2: Unit 2– Leadership and Emotional Intelligence
Week 3: Unit 3– Strategic Leadership
Week 4: Unit 4– Leadership and Corporate Foresight
Week 5: Unit 5– Leading Diversity
Week 6: Unit 6– Decision Making and Ethics
Week 7: Unit 7– Leading Radical Organizational Change
Week 8: Unit 8– Interpersonal Leadership
Week 9: Unit 9– Review and Final Exam