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

• Leadership and Diversity through Literature • Leadership Learning Lab (open only to

student leaders)• Leading Strategic Change • Managerial Psychology• Tactical Leadership

Other Electives inLeadership and Organization

• Bargaining and Negotiating• Establishing Yourself at Work• Human Capital Consulting• Leading Teams• Leadership, Values, and Ethics• Mastering Global Leadership• Spirit of the New Workplace

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

• 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.

Joe Harder

Human Capital Consulting

• Partner with senior HR executives in consulting projects that analyze real-time strategic HR issues

• Develop a deeper understanding of (a) the processes and practices inherent in strategy implementation, (b) the role of human capital and talent as a foundation for strategic capability, and (c) the role of the HR function, in particular, the Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO), in aligning these processes

Scott Snell

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, Values, and Ethics

Robert Smelick

• Values and ethics as essential elements of leadership.

• Provides models and opportunities to refelct on your own values and ethics.

• Each session is devoted to a different leader, focusing on background, context, and typ of leadership they displayed.

• Think more broadly about what makes great leadership.

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

• 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.

• Learn how to apply your personal strengths as a leader to multiple types of team management challenges.Kristin Behfar

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

• Explores the perspectives, attitudes and habits of thinking that foster global leadership competence

• Opportunities to practice core global leadership skills

• Written exercises and reflections are core to the course pedagogy

Terry De Guzman

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!

Tactical Leadership*

• Tactical Leadership focuses on face-to-face influence. • Nuances of formal and informal influence are explored

in detail. • How you listen, how you speak, what you do and how

you do it will all be dissected.• You will learn to be more observant of others’ behavior

and how to influence their behavior at three levels.• You’ll learn about why people behave the way they do.• You’ll learn how to manage people’s energy.• We use cases, film, discussion, self-assessment tools,

key questions, and student research.• The FINAL is a PPT presentation.

Jim Clawson The course uses the 5th edition of the book, Level Three Leadership.

* Fulfills required leadership elective

Further questions?Contact Scott Snell (Area Coordinator)

or any member of the LOB faculty.