LEAD 312 Leading Organizational Change

The current environment in which organizations operate is characterized by unprecedented change powered by rapidly emerging technologies, information overload, globalization, higher customer expectations, and changing values, lifestyles, and attitudes. This requires effective leaders to be proactive toward change or be lost in the tide. This course examines change from an organizational perspective by exploring the change process, representative change interventions, and the role of the leader in working with organizational members to accomplish successful change initiatives. Course concepts are drawn from many disciplines and explore change at individual, group, and organizational levels. Students will have the opportunity to analyze success, failure, and multiple dilemmas of public and private sector organizations in order to better understand the causes, implications, potential leader action, and strategies of organizational change.