BUSN 221 - Business Leadership

3 Credits: (3 lecture)

Course Description
This course is designed to acquaint the student with the fundamentals of business leadership development through behavior theory and business practice learning. The balancing of people-and task- related skills necessary for influencing others to get their job done efficiently and effectively will be explored.

Text
Manning, G. & Curtis, K. (2022).  The art of leadership (7th ed.).  New York City, NY: McGraw-Hill.

Objectives
The student will be able to: 

A. Discuss the vision process used by various organizations. 

B. Explain the role of values and ethics used by business leaders. 

C. Develop business procedures for empowering others.  

D. Identify necessary skills business leaders use.  

E. Apply leadership principles to business performance situations.

Content
A. Vision accomplishment and solving personnel problems 

B. Business values, ethical principles, empowerment, and morale 

C. Business leadership variables, principles, and styles 

D. Understanding people, delegation, and change effectiveness 

E. Business authority effectiveness and performance 

Student Evaluation
Student grades will be based on a combination of in class exercises and discussions, a minimum of four exams including a midterm and comprehensive final, video analysis, article analysis write-ups, interactive questionnaires and exercises.