MGMT 577 - Power and Influence in Organizations

(3 credits)
Prerequisite: MGMT 509 or waiver upon acceptance
See Addenda to the 2021/2022 Catalog   for changes to this course effective Spring 2022

This course explores the nature, practice, and effects of power and influence in work organizations. Students study classical and contemporary ideas on leadership to understand how the concepts and practices of power and influence are changing. Cases and simulations demonstrate methods for the effective and ethical exercise of power and influence in organizational units, on project teams and within the organizational culture as a whole.