MB 6000 - Distributed Leadership for Effective Organizations

• Distinguish the roles, skills, abilities and levels of management and leadership to promote effectiveness in various organizational structures and cultures. Model principles of self-awareness and analysis, reflective practice, transparency, and ethical behavior to integrate new learnings into a personal/professional leadership mission/vision and growth plan.
• Understand, synthesis and apply theories that describe, explain and or predict the actions of individuals and groups in relationship to organizational structures and cultures a system and sub-systems.
• Explore the relationship of ethical and societal responsibilities related to management decisions and strategies and establish a framework for assessing differences in perspectives. Contrast global ethical issues with regional ethical issues, as related to management and leadership.
• Assess your own values, attitudes, emotions, personality, perceptions, stress and learning styles while understanding differences in others and the impact each has on leadership, decision making, ethics, organizational performance and satisfaction.
• Distinguish the functions of groups and teams and propose strategies to promote cohesiveness and effectiveness within diverse and new organizational designs.
• Understand elements of organizational structure and culture to development and alignment of organizational structures and cultures.
• Understand and predict multiple drivers of change and responses to change to develop and support change initiatives/projects.
• Demonstrate a progression to higher levels of learning (Bloom’s Taxonomy of learning) through understanding, applying, evaluating and synthesizing management concepts and theories, which set the foundation for future course work and professional life. Consider “conflicting view” that occur in complex organizations develop strategies to explore and evaluate multiple perspectives. Develop and extend public speaking skills, effective professional written communication skills, teaching/facilitation and team work skills through the completion of graded and non graded course assignments.

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• Leadership
• Organizational Behavior
• Ethics
• Individuals in Organizations
• Groups in Organizations
• Organizational Structure/Culture
• Change
• Professional Development