Organizational Leadership

1 Unit · Undergraduate

This course enables students to think critically about leadership in organizations by understanding five facets of leadership. The five facets are areas of theorizing that explain what makes leadership effective: features, functions, form, fit, and focus. We will learn to answer questions about who is influential, what makes for good leadership, when (under what conditions?), and why (through what mechanisms?) is leadership successful. We explore leadership concepts using a set of illustrative case studies of interesting people who have led interesting lives of impact.