PSYC 412 - Leadership & Organizational Behavior

Credits: 5
Variable Credit Course: No

Lecture Hours: 55
Lab Hours: 0
Worksite/Clinical Hours: 0
Other Hours (LIA/Internships): 0

Course Description: Examine the characteristics of successful leaders in contemporary workplaces. Analyze how leaders develop their managerial skills and organizational acumen and how such leaders create high performing workplaces. Investigate how successful managers address the impact of bias in the workplace, their own, and that of those around them.

Prerequisite: BASM Dept. Chair permission.
Meets FQE Requirement: No
Integrative Experience Requirement: No

Student Learning Outcomes

Evaluate different management and leadership philosophies relevant to their organizational context by critiquing their effectiveness in student’s field of interest.
Evaluate the impact that various factors such as decision making, organizational culture and structure, and communication have on leadership and organizational effectiveness through research in student’s field of interest.
Investigate the relationship between organizational dynamics and organizational acumen and social capital theories by researching their application in student’s field of interest.
Assess the impact of bias on leadership and organizational effectiveness by researching its application in student’s field of interest.

Course Contents

Management and leadership philosophies, styles, traits, and effectiveness in different performance contexts.
Personal leadership style and philosophy.
Personal strengths, opportunity areas, and blind spots.
Personal continual development plan.
Impact on personal leadership and organizational behavior from motivation, perception, decision-making, communication and influence, group behavior, conflict and cooperation, politics, corporate culture and structure.
How individual styles impact team performance.

Instructional Units: 5