EL 705 - Leadership and Management

(3.00 cr.)

Prerequisite: EL 699 . Restricted to Emerging Leaders MBA students. In today's business and managerial climate, it is critical for employees at all levels to demonstrate effective leadership and management skills. The course's overarching goals are to offer a fundamentally applicable framework for managing and leading individuals and groups as they operate within and through organizations, and to create an opportunity for introspection, participation, and skill development around competencies that are highly prized in the modern economy. It also addresses a body of concepts applicable to institutions of any type-including public and international enterprises-and is designed to aid students in learning how to understand and influence human groups and organizations to which they currently belong or will belong in the future. Core concepts are examined through the fostering of three levels of skills: personal, interpersonal, and group. (Fall only)