LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR (4 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to: Understand people and organization’s behaviors; Identify the reasons of organizational events take place; Work with, manage, and change people’s behavior and motivation in organizations as well as forecast and influence organizational events; Understand work ethics in leadership.

Topics:

1. Individual behavior, values, and personality;
2. Perception and learning in organization;
3. Workplace emotions and attitudes;
4. Motivation in a workplace;
5. Job satisfaction;
6. Applied performance practices;
7. Decision making and creativity;
8. Team dynamics;
9. Developing high performance team;
10. Communicating in teams and organization;
11. Power and influences in a workplace;
12. Conflict and negotiation in the workplace;
13. Leadership in organizational settings;
14. Organizational structure, structure, and change;
15. Transformational perspective of leadership;
16. Cross cultural and gender issues in leadership.