MGMT 546 - Leading Organizations: Structure, Culture, and Change

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SP. Healthy and successful organizations are structured in alignment with their strategy, have strong, values-based cultures, and are able to adapt to change. This course will enhance an understanding of life inside organizations through an interdisciplinary examination of common organizational practices such as organizational structure, culture differentiation and internal integration, culture typologies, as well as leadership attributes and styles. The course is designed to increase effectiveness in dealing with multiple aspects of organizational change – by understanding conditions that may require it, increasing awareness of multiple ways that organizations change, managing change, receiving and participating in it, and understanding approaches and responses to change. Prerequisite: admission into the graduate business program.