Master Syllabus:MGT 44712

TROY UNIVERSITY
MASTER SYLLABUS
SORRELL COLLEGE OF BUSINESS

MGT 4471

Leadership and Change

TROY UNIVERSITY SCOB MISSION STATEMENT

The Sorrell College of Business (SCOB) prepares a diverse student body, drawn primarily from Alabama and surrounding states, to become successful, ethical and engaged business professionals with the knowledge to compete in the global business environment.

To achieve this our faculty, staff, and administration will:

Provide quality undergraduate and graduate education in global business through high-quality teaching;

Serve the university and engage with business and professional communities in our primary service area through individual involvement and our centers for research and outreach;

Grow and enhance the longstanding “culture of caring” for our traditional, nontraditional, military, and international students; and

Contribute to the creation of knowledge, with a focus on the scholarship of application and integration, and teaching and learning, complemented by basic and discovery scholarship in select disciplines.

TROY UNIVERSITY SCOB VISION STATEMENT

The Sorrell College of Business strives to be a renowned teaching-focused business college graduating GEEKS ready to succeed in business and life.

Prerequisite: MGT 3300/entry level prerequisites.

Course Description:

A study of leadership and change concepts as applied to an organizational setting. The course covers the foundational concepts of leadership, motivational theories, and organizational change theories and practices, aimed at the application of these theories, practices, and concepts in an organizational setting, designed to enable an achievement of organizational goals and objectives. Applications develop critical thinking skills about the concepts.

Student Learning Objectives:

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

  1. Illustrate the common characteristics of open or complex systems as they apply to an organization.
  2. Differentiate leadership ideas, contingency leadership theories, and emerging leadership theories, including trait theories of leadership, transactional leadership, and transformational leadership.
  3. Compare and contrast different motivational theories that are applied in the workplace (content theories, process theories and goal setting).
  4. Summarize social influence and power, and explain their relationship to leadership.
  5. Interpret values, attitudes and how they are influenced by a leader and expressed in employee behavior.
  6. Discriminate between multiple theories and practices of the implementation of organizational change, beginning with Lewin’s three-phase process of change.
  7. Analyze the leader’s role in creating and developing a vision for the organization, providing a framework of readiness for change by the organizational members.

Purpose:

To provide basic knowledge of leadership and organizational change theories, practices and concepts enabling the student to have a deeper understanding of the purpose and function of leadership in an organizational setting.

Required Activity

This course must contain a student engagement activity with the community that relates to course content. The activity may include guest speakers, site visits, projects for the community/industry, etc…

Approved Textbooks:

Dubrin, A. J. (2012). Leadership: Research Findings, Practice and Skills, 7th Ed. Cengage.

Hughes, R. L., Ginnett, R. C., & Curphy, C. J. (2012). Leadership: Enhancing the lessons of

experience, 7th Ed. McGraw-Hill.

Troy University Faculty Handbook(2016): Section 3.9.2.8 [extract] — essential elements of the syllabus (somewhat modified for space):

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