Leadership and Human Capital

3 Credits

The overall objective of this course is to sensitize participants to the fact that managers face many dilemmas (such as the need to maintain control, yet be flexible enough to effectively change as the competitive environment requires); and therefore, managers need to have skills that will enable them to effectively manage and lead, and thus to become leader-managers. How managing versus leading-skills differ will be emphasized in this course. To raise participants' sensitivity to managerial dilemmas and the skills needed to effectively manage these, there will be extensive use of case discussions and video-clips about challenges faced by companies and their managers, and extensive opportunities for self-reflective and experiential exercises. The development of action-plans for implementing a desirable change in participants' current job-situation will also help participants to hone the skills needed to be effective change-agents, hence leaders, in their organization.