ORGL1100-A Intro To Leadshp /Followership (Fall 2018)

Course Details

Section will be taught totally online with no scheduled class meetings. Students must arrange for daily access to a computer and the Internet prior to the start of classes. Robert Morris labs are to be used only as a backup in special situations and may not be relied upon for extended periods of time. In addition to the Internet link, online classes have a large emphasis on email. All messages from the instructor and other information regarding online classes, including user ids, passwords, and login instructions will be sent to your Robert Morris University email account. Visit http://rmu.blackboard.com/ for more information.
Session, Dates: 2 (08/25/2018 - 10/19/2018)
Days: ONLINE
Time: -
Location: Internet/Online
Room:
Seats Available: Course Full, Choose another
Credits: 3

Course Description

This course introduces major leadership and followership trends and approaches within the broader discipline of leadership studies. The course covers five overarching themes: interdisciplinary studies of leadership; personal, interpersonal, and organizational leadership and followership; and leadership-followership development. By exploring major theories of leadership and followership as art and science, a special emphasis is given to the traditional concepts and definition of leadership, contemporary approaches of leadership process, leader-follower relationships, shifting roles of followership and leadership in various situation, and how leadership and followership is practiced and developed in personal, interpersonal, social-group, and organizational context.

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About the Instructor(s)

Lazarina N. Topuzova, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership
Communication and Organizational Leadership

topuzova@rmu.edu
412-397-6459 phone
412-397-6468 fax
Wheatley Center 210
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