MGT 6051 - Managing and Leading in Organizations

This course emphasizes human behavior concepts and principles useful in creating high performance work places. Personal leadership effectiveness is enhanced through self-assessment, feedback, and studying the practices of exemplary leaders. Methods of managing individuals, groups and organizations to elicit high levels of performance are introduced through discussion of topics such as motivation, power and influence, group behavior and teams, decision making, conflict and collaboration, organization design, culture and leading change. Cases, group discussion and team exercises are used extensively in the course.