ABUS 4022W, Strategic Management and Leadership, brings together key elements from real-world practical experience and academic theoretical study to broaden students' understanding of management and leadership in organizations. Topical areas covered include: - Demands on today?s leaders. - Strategic management principles, tools, and techniques. - Leadership dynamics in all organizations and industries: small to large, for-profit, not-for-profit, and government. - Classical management theory at all levels, as well as more advanced theory for high-performing organizations. - Classical management functions including Planning, Organizing, Leading/Motivating, and Controlling/Evaluating organizational activities. - Strategic planning and organizational objective setting, including strategic positioning assessment. In this course, writing is not an afterthought. Writing will help you learn about strategy and leadership because writing is integral to how strategy and leadership actually work in the real world. Organizational leaders spend an inordinate amount of time writing internal business memos and emails, analytical reports, performance reviews, job descriptions, market assessment reports, and comprehensive strategic plans and implementation strategies. This course will prepare you for the writing responsibilities that you will encounter as you leave university and continue your development as the next generation of leaders. prereq: 45 credits completed. Students will have better success if they have successfully taken and completed a technical writing or English composition course at the University level and can apply good writing techniques in this class.
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