As an introductory course in managing and leading organizations, this course provides an overview of human behavior in organizations at the individual, group, and organizational level with an emphasis on enhancing organizational effectiveness. Topics include: individual differences, work teams, motivation, communication, leadership, conflict resolution, organizational culture, and organizational change.

Taught in an experiential, team-based format, this class focuses on leading cross cultural and virtual teams, with an emphasis on developing strong team dynamics for effective performance in a global environment. Thus, class topics will center around understanding team development and leading teams, while considering varying relevant factors such as cultural differences, virtual communication, managing conflict, and team climate/trust, among others. The course will provide hands-on experience in leading and participating in teams as students will be assigned to a team and will take on different roles, including team leader. When possible, the class includes a virtual team project with students at RIT’s global campuses.

This PhD seminar explores those topics in organizational behavior that explicate our understanding of creativity in organizations. This course draws upon trending as well as classic organizational behavior research to expose students to topics that are especially relevant to creativity, but it is not restricted to creativity literature. The objective of this course is to equip students with conceptual frameworks and analytical approaches that will serve as micro- and meso-level foundation to their understanding of organizational creativity and, ultimately, innovation.