Nov 10, 2024  
2024-2025 Online Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Online Catalog
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MB 643 - Leadership: Order and Change (SF)


This course examines the underlying concepts and principles that guide effective action toward optimizing order and change within an organization. Drawing from systems theory and the fundamental implication that sustainability is a process, not a goal, this course includes an extensive exploration of the role leaders play in sustaining organizational viability.  A leader must know when, where and how to continue the existing order of things and when, where and how to facilitate change. A leader also must be able to differentiate leadership of order and change processes from the authority to impose change. Therefore, as it is essentially an optimization issue and not a maximization issue, understanding the dynamics, political attributes and implications of change are necessary.

This is a Sustainability-Focused (SF)  course.

Assignment Overview

  • Assignments: Varied throughout the term
  • Interactivity: Discussion Boards
  • Final Assessment: Final Paper


Course Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, you should be able to do the following: 

  • Apply understanding of the role and nature of change in organizations in regard to leading for sustained viability. 
  • Apply understanding of the role and nature of order in organizations in regard to leading for sustained viability. 
  • Apply understanding of the impact that fear can have on people in organizations in regard to leading change. 
  • Apply understanding of the role and nature of trust in organizations in regard to leading change. 
  • Apply understanding of resistance and defensive behaviors in response to change toward more effective leadership of change.


Credits: 3



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