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Aug 02, 2024
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MNGT 330 Adaptive Leadership and Organizational Learning (5 credits)
Prerequisite At least a junior standing in a baccalaureate program.
Course Description
This course explores adaptive leadership strategies that mobilize and support diverse teams to work collaboratively, inclusively, and respectfully in order to bring about genuine trust and desired outcomes in the processes and products of their work.
Course Content
Systems theory
Adaptive leadership
Ethics
Strengths-based leadership
Learning organizations
Personal mastery
Adaptive and technical solutions
High-functioning team dynamics
Informal and formal authority
Student Outcomes
Analyze management and leadership styles and how these impact organizational behavior and effectiveness.
Apply systems theory and adaptive leadership in fostering learning organizations.
Evaluate ethical considerations to inform organizational behavior and actions.
Analyze the role of socio-emotional intelligence and cultural awareness in effective leadership.
Analyze challenges of effective organizational communication as sources of conflict, resolution, and development.
Develop a leadership response that increases organizational capacity to solve complex and systemic problems.
Evaluate leadership, management, power, influence, authority, and role of organizational learning in meeting organizational goals.
Degree Outcomes
Core Abilities
Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.
Effective Communication: Graduates will be able to exchange messages in a variety of contexts using multiple methods.
Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions
Program Outcomes
A2. Collaboration and Teamwork - Work responsibly, respectfully, and inclusively within and across diverse groups/teams to achieve common goals.
A3. Critical Thinking - Use systems theory to understand and analyze trends and organizational problems as well as to construct and evaluate evidence-based solution options.
D2. Apply inclusive problem-solving, decision-making, and negotiation practices to promote professional and organizational success in diverse settings.
Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50
Potential Methods
The below instructional methods may be online or in-person:
Online and/or in-person discussions to critically examine leadership with and without authority and implications for organizational change and learning
Adaptive and interactive learning devices to support content retention and comprehension
Multiple-choice exams to encourage content coverage
Case studies to analyze organizational learning challenges in context
Self-assessments to examine strengths and applications for team settings
Self-reflections and essays to evaluate experiences, consider ethical impacts, and systemic implications across contexts
Team-based learning to increase collaboration capacities and demonstrate team learning competencies
Scenario and solution testing to examine systemic behaviors, organizational risks, and overall value of solution options.
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