Building a Culture that Grows with the Business: Management Foundations

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The world is in a 'permacrisis': our planet, society, technology, and businesses are changing faster than ever. We'll need to continue to adapt significantly to an ever-changing fragile and unpredictable world. Disruptive forces and frontier AI are accelerating the way enterprises operate and innovate. This places extraordinary demands on business leaders to build trusted organizations, and it exposes entrepreneurs and employees to navigate ambiguous situations in workplaces. How might you apply a sense of humor to turn a difficult conversation with your boss or client into an opportunity to build a resilient relationship? Which interpersonal strengths can propel you forward in a hiring process, and how would you negotiate your next job offer? How might you design an effective team in an innovation setting? What is an ideal organization, and what evidence and conceptual frameworks can we use to answer that question?

In this hands-on, practical class, we explore these types of questions through readings, video blogs, podcasts, live-online activities, discussions, small group assignments, and your own case studies from a real-world organization, testing your ability to build effective relationships. We cover diverse topics, including: influencing people, negotiation strategies; managing hybrid workplaces; designing a culture of innovation; turning knowledge and awareness into action.

The class is designed to accomplish three main goals:

Increase your knowledge and awareness of contemporary management, behavioral science, and organizational behavior concepts so that you can understand and analyze how organizations and the people within them work.
Develop your own style of leadership and negotiation skills by providing you with opportunities to apply concepts to real-world problems.
Build a diverse and inclusive learning community.

To successfully participate in this remote offering, students need a computer and internet access. Students are expected to participate in 3 1/2 hours of synchronous instructional activities (scheduled on Zoom Meeting) each week. Students enrolled for 8 credits will work on a quarter-long capstone group project that will include additional field work (e.g., interviewing). Students enrolled for 12 credits will, in addition to the capstone project, work in groups to create a management tool. Students enrolled for the 8- or 12-credit options should expect 4 hours or 8 hours per week of asynchronous learning activities, respectively, including group work.

Students enrolled in the program (at any credit level) may also enroll in an additional mini-course for an additional 2 credits using the 6, 10, or 14 credit options: students enrolled in the additional 2 credits will complete a negotiation project. Students will present their work to others in the course asynchronously.

Summer Anticipated Credit Equivalencies
Enrolling at 4 credits:

4 - Introduction to Management and Strategy

Enrolling at 8 credits:

4 - Managing Growing Enterprises in the Era of Gen-AI

4 - Strategic Management Capstone: Designing for Change

Enrolling at 12 credits:

4 - Managing Growing Enterprises in the Era of Gen-AI

4 - Strategic Management Capstone: Designing for Change

4 - Special Topics in Practical Management Tool

Enrolling 6, 10, or 14 credits:

Additional 2 credits in Practicum in Negotiation & Persuasion

Registration

Summer Registration:

Course Reference Numbers

Full Session (12): 40120

Academic Details

Fields of Study:

Business, Management, and Entrepreneurship

Preparatory for studies and careers in:

Business Venture, Small Business Management, Startups, Business Strategy and Operations, Managing Sales and Marketing, Customer Relationship Management, Innovation Consulting, Organizational Design, Leadership Coaching, Mentoring, Teaching, Management Consulting

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Class Standing:

Freshman

Sophomore

Junior

Senior