15 courses with the subject ORGB, 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.
ORGB 300[WI] Organizational Behavior4.0
Provides conceptual understanding of various principles of management and organizational processes and the opportunity for skill-building in the areas of individual, interpersonal, and intergroup organizational behaviors.
This course provides both a theoretical and practical understanding of leadership through theoretical and experiential learning. Course time will be devoted to lecture and course discussion that will teach students theories of leadership and hands-on activities that will demonstrate the practicality and applicability of these theories.
This course examines the fundamentals of collaboration by engaging students in real business issues and is uniquely designed to partner with business leaders from a local company. Over the course of the term, students will work in a team tasked with creating innovative solutions while learning how to be an effective team member and moderate effective teaming processes. This course will define conceptual and theoretical issues to effective teaming through guided debriefing sessions focusing on self-reflection and active learning. We will examine topics such as team design, culture, team processes, leadership, and emergent states to provide you with a set of principles to help you manage teamwork.
This course examines how team structures, member characteristics, and interpersonal processes influence the effectiveness of work teams, and the dynamics of interpersonal relationships within and across team boundaries. This course also examines forms and functions of team leadership to provide students with a set of general principles to help them lead teams in a range of situations. This course uses an experiential learning format; students will engage in a series of team activities, each of which will be followed by a debriefing.
This course provides both a theoretical understanding of the central concepts in negotiation and conflict management through applied experience in these processes. Through classroom exercises, discussion, and personal reflection, students will improve their ability to negotiate and manage conflicts through gained confidence in these processes.
This course provides a conceptual understanding of career management and a practical application of this material to the career decisions that students currently face and will face in the future. A blend of theory, case analysis, and self-assessments relate course concepts to effective techniques for managing a career at different phases of life.
To effectively influence others, individuals must understand themselves and how their actions, personality traits, and values affect those around them. As leaders, individuals must also interact well with others and have a foundation of knowledge to draw upon to determine appropriate actions. This course helps students enhance their self-awareness, strengthen their social awareness, and boost their capacity to analyze critical events, make informed decisions, and take appropriate actions as leaders. This course takes a strategic perspective of leadership, examining how leaders at all organizational levels can help promote a sustainable competitive advantage. Topics such as individual differences, building social networks, motivating employees, responding in crisis situations, and ethics are discussed.
ORGB 511Leading in Dynamic Environments: A Personal, Relational, and Strategic Approach3.0
To effectively influence oneself and others, individuals must understand themselves and how their actions, personality traits, and values affect their careers and those around them. As leaders, individuals must also interact well with others and have a foundation of knowledge to draw upon to determine appropriate actions in dynamically changing environments. This course helps students enhance their self-awareness and professional development, strengthen their social awareness, and boost their capacity to analyze critical events, make informed decisions, and take appropriate actions as leaders in a variety of contexts and situations. This course takes a strategic perspective of leadership, examining how leaders at all organizational levels can help promote a sustainable competitive advantage.
Teams are a fundamental structure and building block in organizations. Given the trend towards flatter and matrix types of business structures, teamwork and interpersonal relationships are becoming increasingly important. As a result, in order to be successful in a team based environment, individuals must be able to understand core drivers of team effectiveness as well as how to influence in these types of settings. This course examines these skillsets in terms of team structure, leadership, interpersonal relationships, knowledge exchange, processes, and outcomes. The learning method is experiential whereby individuals will participate in team based activities and then debrief them in order to learn how to effectively engage in and facilitate positive team dynamics in organizations.
To be an effective leader and to develop professionally, individuals must understand themselves, exercise self-leadership, and manage their careers and lives effectively. This course helps students develop knowledge and skills in these areas to enhance their professional development and to become effective managers of their careers. Using readings, cases, self-assessments, and discussions, the objective of the course is to provide students with opportunities to understand trends in contemporary organizations and careers, enhance their self-awareness, develop career self-management skills, and apply these skills and perspectives to further their professional development.
Developing a winning organizational strategy that unlocks growth is essential for business survival. Developing a strategy, however, is only one part of the equation as some studies show that as much as 70% of strategy and change initiatives fail in execution. What explains the change leadership shortfall in most organizations? This course explores why change efforts fail and how to proactively overcome common change leadership challenges. The course will introduce effective change leadership approaches, as well as develop specific skills such as planning, communication, change management, and performance measurement. Participants will develop solutions to developing strategic alignment, translating vision into action plans, making change happen and stick, and applying lessons to real world initiatives.
The increased globalization of our workforce makes the use of virtual platforms to manage teams an organizational imperative. Virtual coordination offers a number of benefits for leaders including greater access to talent and temporal flexibility however, it also presents a number of challenges. This type of working arrangement heightens the importance of interpersonal relationships and teamwork in modern organizations and requires thoughtful strategies to succeed. This course examines the team structures, member characteristics, interpersonal processes, and technology features that influence the effectiveness of teams, and the dynamics of interpersonal relationships in virtual environments.
ORGB 625Leadership and Professional Development3.0
This course helps students develop knowledge and skills to enhance their professional development and to become effective leaders. Students will understand trends in contemporary organizations, enhance their self-awareness, and refine their interpersonal skills, and apply these skills to improve their work effectiveness.
This course prepares students to make informed decisions as leaders in common institutional and environmental contexts. The focus of the contingency-based perspective of this course is to help leaders understand how best to motivate and coordinate employees and to control outcomes in a manner that ensures they fulfill strategic objectives.
This course is designed specifically for leaders to enhance their leadership negotiation style. The material is geared toward developing leaders as they deal with the art and science of securing agreements and resolving disputes. The course combines a theoretical understanding of the central concepts of negotiations with learned analytical skills to discover optimal solutions to problems (the science) and good negotiation skills to get these solutions accepted and implemented (the art).