The Organizational Leadership Specialization is an interdisciplinary studies program that explores a variety of leadership-related topics, issues, and competencies. Students who successfully complete the Organizational Leadership Specialization will:
6 Habits of Highly Effective Teams by
A model of superior team performance that draws on the coauthor's 50 years of combined organizational development experience and research. Highly effective teams, the authors insist, are characterized less by the technical competencies of individual team members and more by widespread agreement and alignment with a small but extremely relevant team processes, values, and understandings. By focussing on and reinforcing a half dozen team "habits", groups can develop the kind of synergies that define collaborative excellence. The model is simple and practical, but it can yield extremely powerful results for any size organization.
Corporate Integrity: Rethinking Organizational Ethics and Leadership by
What do corporations look like when they have integrity, and how can we move more companies in that direction? Corporate Integrity offers a timely, comprehensive framework and practical business lessons bringing together questions of organizational design, communication practices, working relationships, and leadership styles to answer this question.
Organizational Behavior 1 by
This comprehensive text provides a detailed review and analysis of the building-block theories in Organizational Behavior. Expanding on his previous work in the field, John Miner has identified the key theories that every student or scholar needs to understand to be considered literate in the discipline.
Organizational Leadership by
Offers varying perspectives on important issues and provides readers with balanced and fair coverage of a topic to form their own opinion or to support their research. This reader is designed to address a number of different issues regarding organizational leadership. Each issue question is relevant to the topic and guides readers through the readings. The controversy and different views among the captivating readings is readily apparent to the reader and stimulates discussion.
The AMA Handbook of Leadership by
Filled with powerful examples, full case studies, and previously unpublished articles from the greatest leadership thinkers of our time, this game-changing guide features insights on a wide range of timely and timeless leadership topics. You'll learn about talent development, gaining a competitive advantage through leadership, leading across cultures, sustainability, executive transition, and much more.
Encyclopedia of Leadership by
"The editors' eclectic, interdisciplinary, and global approach goes far beyond the usual literature on management to create a broad foundation for this developing field, drawing concepts and examples from religion, philosophy, business, politics, the arts, and other fields. Entries are often accompanied by sidebars with excerpts from primary texts and by pull quotes with stimulating epigrams. Many articles include extended case studies of leaders ranging from Alexander the Great to Louis B. Mayer."--"Reference that rocks," American Libraries, May 2005.
The Handbook of Competency Mapping by
This thoroughly revised third edition helps human resource managers and professionals understand, develop, manage and map competencies within their organizations. It presents the complete know-how of developing competency framework in detail. In this edition, several chapters have been expanded to provide a greater understanding of business strategies, environmental imperatives and the changing role of HR as a strategic partner.
