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OBC

3 courses with the subject OBC, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.

OBC 1010Leadership Practice1/3

Leadership is a critical role in any global, technological organization. This course explores how the concepts of creativity, entrepreneurial and critical thinking, emotional and self-awareness, passion, diversity, communication, and ethics inform and affect leadership practice. The course considers a variety of contemporary leadership challenges including how leaders work effectively across cultural, technological, and disciplinary boundaries, how leaders foster new ideas and bring them to fruition, how they communicate effectively and persuasively to diverse stakeholders, and how they make decisions that are both ethical and effective. The course is designed to 1) increase students’ awareness of their own leadership styles, 2) examine the responsibilities of leadership, and 3) determine best practices in leadership.

Subject
OBC
Type
course
Edition
2026-2027
Catalog
Catalog 2026-2027
Source
wpi.cleancatalog.net
OBC 3354Organizational Behavior and Change

This course focuses on the basic knowledge and processes required of managers to understand behavior in organizations and to apply this knowledge to organizational change. Topics include communication and trust, power and leadership, group and intergroup processes, conflict and conflict management, and work and organizational design. Students apply their knowledge of organizational behavior to the analysis, implementation, and leadership of organizational change. Lectures, video presentations, case studies, group discussions and mini-projects are employed to introduce and illustrate the basic elements of organizational behavior and change.

Subject
OBC
Type
course
Edition
2025-2026-undergraduate
Source
wpi.cleancatalog.net
OBC 4367Leadership, Ethics, and Social Responsibility1/3

This upper-level course invites students to consider the importance of ethics, corporate governance, and corporate social responsibility for leading global enterprises effectively. Students will be asked to reflect on their own leadership styles and to engage the complex, ethical dimensions of leadership in modern organizations. The course will engage students using lecture, video presentations, case studies, guest speakers, fieldwork, and mini-projects.

Subject
OBC
Type
course
Edition
2026-2027
Catalog
Catalog 2026-2027
Source
wpi.cleancatalog.net

Source: Worcester Polytechnic Institute's catalog, linked per course · table learning_unit · CourseShelf publish 61