Leaders can make the difference between success and failure.This course takes the students beyond the tools and techniques of business and makes them think about the broader challenges ahead of them as leaders in an ever-changing globalized world. The course combines cutting-edge research in international management, organizational behavior and social psychology in order to provide students with up-to-date examples and cases that link current research and theory to practical issues in the workplace. The course will give participants the chance to evaluate their own leadership style and develop a plan to improve it.

Introduction to global leadership

Decision making: individual and groups

Influence and communication

Cross-cultural challenges

Diversity: implicit associations and subtle biases

Ethical decision making

Personal Development

Awareness of one’s own leadership philosophy and behaviors

Interpersonal competencies for leading individuals, teams and organizations in a global context.

Planning for and implementing personal leadership growth and change

25% class participation

25% individual assignment

25% exam

25% group assignment