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 Department:    PSYC

 Course #:    412

 Credits:    5

 Variable:     No

 IUs:    5

 CIP:    420101

 EPC:    n/a

 REV:    2019

 Course Description  

Focuses on building leadership and inter-personal managerial skills and managing relationships in organizations. Gain practical experience in defining your leadership style, managing teams, resolving conflict, and building professional and effective relationships. Special emphasis will be placed on managing difficult behavioral human situations (whether among employees within the organization or with external stakeholders). Explore the unique leadership challenges facing under-represented populations in business (e.g., women, ethnically diverse people, and veterans).

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: Admission to BASAM program and BASAM Director permission.

Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)

Lecture: 55

Lab: 0

Other: 0

Systems: 0

Clinical: 0

Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:  

Vocational Preparatory Social Sciences  

Equivalencies At Other Institutions

Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

1. Identify and critique management and leadership philosophies, styles, traits, and effectiveness in different performance contexts.
2. Define personal leadership style and philosophy.
3. Identify personal strengths, opportunity areas, and blind spots.
4. Formulate an individual personal continual development plan.
5. Evaluate the impact on personal leadership and organizational behavior from motivation, perception, decision-making, communication and influence, group behavior, conflict and cooperation, politics, corporate culture and structure.
6. Evaluate how individual styles impact team performance.
7. PROGRAM OUTCOME: Demonstrate an understanding of management roles, leadership, and cultural norms and expectations of leadership, including identification and description of human behavior in an organizational setting, with attention to the dynamics of po
8. PROGRAM OUTCOME: Acquire, organize, analyze, and interpret information and data to make informed, reasoned, equitable decisions and analyze systems for planning and decision-making.
9. PROGRAM OUTCOME: Analyze, build, and leverage social capital for occupational advancement, which will include the development of materials to structure and support ongoing personal career management.
10. PROGRAM OUTCOME: Demonstrate a knowledge of the local business environment and community and an awareness of issues and opportunities emerging from the changing socio-economic, technological, and environmental landscape.
11. PROGRAM OUTCOME: Use written & spoken skills & tools, concepts, & models of management applicable to the professional-technical discipline to communicate clearly & create an effective message, while demonstrating a professional presence.
12. PROGRAM OUTCOME: Demonstrate ability to assimilate, evaluate, & synthesize information from varying media & formats, including the ability to assess qualitative & quantitative data & to apply critical thinking & knowledge in an industry & managerial funct
13. PROGRAM OUTCOME: Explore, appreciate, and define the opportunities, challenges, and nuances of operating in an increasingly diverse, interconnected, and complex global community.
14. PROGRAM OUTCOME: Recognize and challenge culture-bound assumptions.

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

Revised August 2008 and affects outlines for 2008 year 1 and later.

Course Contents

1. Management and leadership philosophies, styles, traits, and effectiveness in different performance contexts.
2. Personal leadership style and philosophy.
3. Personal strengths, opportunity areas, and blind spots.
4. Personal continual development plan.
5. Impact on personal leadership and organizational behavior from motivation, perception, decision-making, communication and influence, group behavior, conflict and cooperation, politics, corporate culture and structure.
6. How individual styles impact team performance.