Graduate Catalog

MLD 503 Leadership Identity

This course offers students a comprehensive, integrative, and practical focus on leadership by promoting an understanding of the multifaceted nature of leadership. It provides the foundation for understanding the processes in leadership and it presents the recent views. It focuses on the role of leaders in understanding and managing the reciprocal processes of organizational culture and change; it is intended to help students understand how the process of leadership and our images and expectations of effective leaders change with organizational, social, and cultural evolutions. Ultimately, this course focuses on the practical business of leading groups and organizations, by presenting the challenges of leading teams and organizations through change and the approaches, methods and tools available for developing leaders.

Credits

3