Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LOB) faculty offer different types of electives

• Electives that fulfill the 2nd year Leadership Requirement (LDSP)

• Electives in the Leadership and Organizational Behavior area (LOB)

• Electives in Bargaining and Negotiating (NEG)

LOB courses that fulfill the Required Leadership Electives

• Leadership and Cultures of Trust• Leadership and Diversity through Literature • Leadership Learning Lab (open only to student leaders)

• Leadership Strategies• Leadership, Values, and Ethics• Leading Strategic Change • Managerial Psychology• Mastering Global Leadership

Other Electives inLeadership and Organization

• Bargaining and Negotiating• Establishing Yourself at Work• Leading Teams• Spirit of the New Workplace • The 21st Century Family Enterprise

Bargaining and Negotiating

• Hands on - Engage with classmates in negotiations for every class

• Experience first hand successful and unsuccessful strategies

• Learn about personal negotiating strengths and weaknesses

• Develop situational awareness and the impact of various tactics on outcomes

Melissa Thomas-Hunt

Establishing Yourself at Work

• Shows FY and SY students how to develop career management skills that will help them become more effective leaders.

• Visual media (films, TV, etc.) used to raise issues and provoke conversation about engagement, credibility, organizational norms, socialization, etc.

• The course is designed to ensure that students will fit in quickly, gain influence rapidly, learn consistently, and outperform their competition.

Joe Harder

Leadership and Cultures of Trust

Robert Smelick

• Values and ethics as essential elements of leadership.

• Provides models and opportunities to reflect on your own values and ethics.

• Each session is devoted to a different leader, focusing on background, context, and type of leadership they displayed.

• Think more broadly about what makes great leadership.

* Fulfills required leadership elective

Leadership and Diversity through Literature*• This course explores the stories of people

who are significant in the lives of other people: it has been said that we are a product of our most important stories

• The course explores the stories of influential leaders from diverse points of view

• Explores the role of leadership in managing diversity through great leaders in literature

Alec Horniman

* Fulfills required leadership elective

Leadership Strategies

• Experience a hands-on course developed to help you understand your own unique leadership style.

• You will have opportunities for reflection, debate, and personal development coaching.

• Find out how to navigate organizational politics, and learn how to inspire others.

• Develop an integrative, tangible action plan for life post-MBA.

Morela Hernandez

* Fulfills required leadership elective

Leadership, Values, and Ethics

Andy Wicks

• Learn about leadership by studying other leaders

• Incorporate leadership theory and capabilities as a way of understanding how leadership works and why it is successful

• Understand values and ethics as an integral aspect of leadership

• Use reflections on leadership and examples of other leaders to enhance your own approach to leading

* Fulfills required leadership elective

Leading Strategic Change*

• Senior Manager’s view on leading change in organizations

• Explores the relationship between leadership, strategy, and leading change in organizations.

• Cases and discussion about leading strategic change in organizations

• Provocative discussions

Alec Horniman

* Fulfills required leadership elective

Leading Teams

• Examine how interpersonal processes, organizational contexts, and structural characteristics of teams influence performance and productivity.

• Increase understanding of when organizations should/should not use teams, the costs/benefits of different team designs, and how to reward/incentivize teams.

• By consulting with the first year learning teams, understand how to apply your personal strengths as a leader to multiple types of team management challenges.

Kristin Behfar

Joe Harder

Managerial Psychology*

• Familiarizes students with the dominant theories of human behavior

• A new book each week• Current theories of psychology as well as the

classics• Seminar style discussions• Over 2 quarters (30 sessions)

Alec Horniman

* Fulfills required leadership elective

Mastering Global Leadership

• Explore the perspectives, skills, attitudes and habits of thinking that foster global leadership competence.

• Understand mindsets and behaviors that prevent or promote effectiveness in global business environments.

• Provide the opportunity to start mastering global leadership capabilities.

• Written exercises and reflections are core to the course pedagogy.Terry

De Guzman

* Fulfills required leadership elective

Spirit of the New Workplace

Joe Harder

• Develop an awareness of current trends in the workplace

• Cultivate an analytic framework for assessing future workplace innovations

• Engage in a process of self-discovery about your own and others’ understandings of work and the role it plays in life

• Work with tools and methods that facilitate transition into the work world

• Experience the benefits of having fun with a purpose!

The 21st Century Family Enterprise• Understand the unique characteristics and

capabilities of the family form of business organization.

• Explore the organizational, business and family relational issues in family- controlled companies.

• Improve critical skills and competencies to effectively work for and with the family enterprise.

• Learn best practices and explore emerging trends that enable family businesses to innovate and endure.Terry

De Guzman

Further questions?Contact Scott Snell (Area Coordinator)

or any member of the LOB faculty.