Leadership and Global Challenges   [Archived Catalog]
2023-2024 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Spring Addendum
   

ORG 7440 - Leadership and Global Challenges


This course critically examines both how leaders lead and support transformative organizational change and how the theories and models in innovation, sustainability, systems thinking and critical thinking support its planning and process development.   It investigates how leaders who initiate and direct significant global and local organizational shifts can mobilize, focus, generate commitment, and implement new directions. The course combines theory, case material, models and accounts of how and why organizations intervene in their cultures, purposes, structures, and/or operational processes. Students will undertake a detailed analysis of an global organizational challenges they have experienced, or one they have access to through interviews.  3 credit(s)