Organizational Leadership for Innovation and Change

3 credits · Peabody College - Professional

This course develops leaders' capacity to diagnose complex organizational challenges and mobilize change through multiple analytical frames and theoretically grounded leadership practices. Built on Bolman and Deal's four-frame organizational model and Sutton and Rao's friction framework, the course teaches students to see organizations through structural, human resource, political, and symbolic lenses simultaneously. Students integrate major leadership theories—transformational, instructional, distributed, and adaptive—with organizational change theory and systems thinking to develop the diagnostic sophistication that organizational leadership requires. [3]