Course Catalog & Schedules Course Search > Search Results > Course Description Power In Organizations: Sources, Strategies and Skills (MORS-453-0) 1.00 Credit Description: This course counts toward the following majors: Entrepreneurship & Innovation, Human Resource Management, Management & Organizations. Power dynamics are fundamental to the effective exercise of leadership in organizations. This course develops your ability to create and use sources of power beyond formal authority, to formulate strategies and tactics of political and social influence, and to exercise skills that make you a more effective organizational leader. Readings, case materials, course assignments and a field action project focus on the challenge of sustainable political advantage in organizations - the rules of the game, basic power diagnostics, the management of strategic dependencies and persuasion processes, and working in entrepreneurial contexts. Throughout, the course raises issues of career dynamics in the context of the development of your leadership abilities. Prerequisite: MORS-430. Prerequisites: All Students: ORGB-430-0 OR MORS-430-0 Corequisites: None

We are currently in the Fall 2009 quarter.

Academic Year: 2009-2010 Quarter: Fall 2009 Sec ID Instructor Day Time Location 61 * King MR 10:30 - 12:00 Jacobs (G40 STERN) 71 * King R 18:00 - 21:00 Wieboldt (TBD)   Academic Year: 2009-2010 Quarter: Winter 2010 This course has not yet been scheduled.   Academic Year: 2009-2010 Quarter: Spring 2010 Sec ID Instructor Day Time Location 61 Weber MR 10:30 - 12:00 Jacobs (TBD) 62 Weber MR 15:30 - 17:00 Jacobs (TBD) 71 Ocasio M 18:00 - 21:00 Wieboldt (TBD)   Academic Year: 2009-2010 Quarter: Summer 2010 This course has not yet been scheduled.

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