Leadership and Management Concentration Courses
Required Courses
OAD 30063 | Behavior in Organizations (3 Credits)
Study of human behavior in work organizations. Focuses on individual satisfaction and motivation as related to organizational structure, nature of task and locus of power. Topics include small group formation, maintenance, organizational conflict, communications and leadership.
OAD 32064 | Charismatic Management (3 Credits)
Examines how leaders may adjust their approaches to be effective managers. Topics include different psychological approaches to management, impression management techniques, and learning to utilize EQ methods to influence others.
Elective Courses
OAD 30030 | Leadership of Creativity & Change (4 Credits)
Examines the role of an organizational leader. Assess individual skills and discusses the role of a leader in managing teams through environmental and organizational change. Includes extensive application exercises designed to develop leadership skills.
OAD 30563 | Management (3 Credits)
Discusses process for managing organizations including planning, organizing, leading, and evaluating. Examines administrative role in organizations and concepts relevant to its function and historical development of administrative throught.
OAD 36364 | Leadership and Communication (3 Credits)
Focus on leadership as action and understanding others and interpersonal theory as the connection between leadership and communication in an organizational context. Both didactic and experiential teaching methods used. Cross-listed with COM 36364 Leadership and Communication.
OAD 41464 | Project Management (4 Credits)
Provides theory and application in project planning, implementation, control and completion. Includes network planning, project evaluation and review techniques (PERT), critical path methods (CPM), management by objectives, management by exception, cost analysis and resource allocation/leveling. Cross-listed with MIS 41464.
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