Leadership and Organizational
Behavior (LOB) faculty offer
different types of electives
• Electives that fulfill the 2nd year Leadership
Requirement (LDSP)
• Electives in the Leadership and Organizational
Behavior area (LOB)
• Electives in Bargaining and Negotiating (NEG)
LOB courses that fulfill the
Required Leadership Electives
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Leadership and Cultures of Trust
Leadership and Diversity through Literature
Leadership Learning Lab (open only to student leaders)
Leadership Strategies
Leadership, Values, and Ethics
Leading Strategic Change
Managerial Psychology
Mastering Global Leadership
Other Electives in
Leadership and Organization
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Bargaining and Negotiating
Establishing Yourself at Work
Leading Teams
Spirit of the New Workplace
The 21st Century Family Enterprise
Bargaining and Negotiating
• Hands on - Engage with classmates in
negotiations for every class
• Experience first hand successful and
unsuccessful strategies
• Learn about personal negotiating strengths
and weaknesses
• Develop situational awareness and the impact
of various tactics on outcomes
Melissa
Thomas-Hunt
Establishing Yourself at Work
Joe Harder
• Shows FY and SY students how to develop
career management skills that will help them
become more effective leaders.
• Visual media (films, TV, etc.) used to raise
issues and provoke conversation about
engagement, credibility, organizational
norms, socialization, etc.
• The course is designed to ensure that
students will fit in quickly, gain influence
rapidly, learn consistently, and outperform
their competition.
Leadership and Cultures of Trust
• Values and ethics as essential elements of
leadership.
• Provides models and opportunities to reflect
on your own values and ethics.
• Each session is devoted to a different leader,
focusing on background, context, and type of
leadership they displayed.
• Think more broadly about what makes great
leadership.
Robert
Smelick
* Fulfills required leadership elective
Leadership and Diversity through
Literature*
• This course explores the stories of people
who are significant in the lives of other
people: it has been said that we are a
product of our most important stories
• The course explores the stories of influential
leaders from diverse points of view
• Explores the role of leadership in managing
diversity through great leaders in literature
Alec Horniman
* Fulfills required leadership elective
Leadership Strategies
• Experience a hands-on course developed to
help you understand your own unique
leadership style.
• You will have opportunities for reflection,
debate, and personal development coaching.
• Find out how to navigate organizational
politics, and learn how to inspire others.
• Develop an integrative, tangible action plan
for life post-MBA.
Morela Hernandez
* Fulfills required leadership elective
Leadership, Values, and Ethics
Andy
Wicks
• Learn about leadership by studying other
leaders
• Incorporate leadership theory and capabilities
as a way of understanding how leadership
works and why it is successful
• Understand values and ethics as an integral
aspect of leadership
• Use reflections on leadership and examples of
other leaders to enhance your own approach
to leading
* Fulfills required leadership elective
Leading Strategic Change*
• Senior Manager’s view on leading change in
organizations
• Explores the relationship between leadership,
strategy, and leading change in organizations.
• Cases and discussion about leading strategic
change in organizations
• Provocative discussions
Alec Horniman
* Fulfills required leadership elective
Leading Teams
Kristin
Behfar
• Examine how interpersonal processes,
organizational contexts, and structural
characteristics of teams influence
performance and productivity.
• Increase understanding of when
organizations should/should not use teams,
the costs/benefits of different team designs,
and how to reward/incentivize teams.
• By consulting with the first year learning
Joe
teams, understand how to apply your
Harder
personal strengths as a leader to multiple
types of team management challenges.
Managerial Psychology*
• Familiarizes students with the dominant
theories of human behavior
• A new book each week
• Current theories of psychology as well as the
classics
• Seminar style discussions
• Over 2 quarters (30 sessions)
Alec Horniman
* Fulfills required leadership elective
Mastering Global Leadership
Terry
De Guzman
• Explore the perspectives, skills, attitudes and
habits of thinking that foster global leadership
competence.
• Understand mindsets and behaviors that
prevent or promote effectiveness in global
business environments.
• Provide the opportunity to start mastering
global leadership capabilities.
• Written exercises and reflections are core to
the course pedagogy.
* Fulfills required leadership elective
Spirit of the New Workplace
Joe Harder
• Develop an awareness of current trends in
the workplace
• Cultivate an analytic framework for assessing
future workplace innovations
• Engage in a process of self-discovery about
your own and others’ understandings of work
and the role it plays in life
• Work with tools and methods that facilitate
transition into the work world
• Experience the benefits of having fun with a
purpose!
The 21st Century Family Enterprise
Terry
De Guzman
• Understand the unique characteristics and
capabilities of the family form of business
organization.
• Explore the organizational, business and
family relational issues in family- controlled
companies.
• Improve critical skills and competencies to
effectively work for and with the family
enterprise.
• Learn best practices and explore emerging
trends that enable family businesses to
innovate and endure.
Further questions?
Contact Scott Snell (Area Coordinator)
or any member of the LOB faculty.