MGMT 577 - Power and Influence in Organizations

(3 credits)
Prerequisite: ACFI 200; and ECON 500 or ECON 101 and ECON 102; and ECON 501 or ECON 210; or waiver
See Addenda to the 2022/2023 Catalog for changes to this course effective Spring 2023

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. Offered alternate years.