Special Topics: Adaptive Cultures for Organizational Vitality

3 credits

In environments marked by sustained uncertainty and complexity, executive leaders face a challenge that extends beyond resilience: how to cultivate organizations that maintain coherence, energy, and shared purpose over time. This course examines how senior leaders intentionally shape adaptive cultures capable of enduring prolonged instability without fragmentation, stagnation, or burnout. Drawing on research in organizational culture, collective efficacy, trust systems, and human flourishing, students analyze the executive levers that influence norms, decision climates, energy patterns, and renewal capacity. Emphasis is placed on designing organizational conditions that sustain vitality and generative performance under persistent strain.