BA 713: Leadership and Organizations

Overview

This course is designed to give the doctoral student a comprehensive understanding of historical, current, and emerging perspectives of organizational leadership theory and practice. The past and present state of leadership will be examined in order to consider and shape the future of leadership. Students will explore the nature of the leadership role in contemporary organizations, and determine the responsibilities and benefits of leadership in the broad social arena. The course approach will combine reading the seminal works (or recent summaries or synthesis) along with individual in-depth research by the students to explore their specific field of interest in organizational leadership.

The course will include a variety of assessments, discussions, written evaluations, and exercises. Each deliverable will require research, and information and knowledge sharing within the cohort. Throughout the eight modules, a strong focus on self-reflection and conceptualization will be encouraged.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Develop both a historical and current perspective of leadership theory: the evolution of leadership and how theoretical perspectives have or continue to impact management practice; and understand the application of theoretical findings in a business enterprise.
• Review, analyze, and integrate the major theoretical underpinnings of leadership to help understand how these theories contribute to managerial strategies necessary for meeting the needs of the organization, the shareholders, customers, and the business community.
• Analyze the current body of knowledge of leadership research pertaining to technology, globalization, and application of such findings in the current business environment.
• Apply research theories and identify methodological insights in beginning to build individual annotated bibliographic citations for use in the doctoral program.
• Identify applicable seminal research, theory, and/or methods from this course relevant to individual research question(s); and contribute to the field of study by extending previous knowledge.

Required Texts
BA 713 texts are available from the JIU/MBS bookstore