GRN 6030 - Leadership and Change

(4 units)

This course addresses the need for organizations to create prosperous and sustainable organizations through inspired and well informed leadership coming from all levels of the organization and adapting to and generating change toward triple-bottom-line thinking. This course begins with an examination of key topics relating to people in organizations including, leadership, motivation, culture, and team dynamics. The course then moves on to examine how leadership can bring about change in terms of sustainability within the context of the social environment within the organization. Students focus on how leaders move organizational change forward by emphasizing all aspects of the triple bottom line, how leadership promotes collaborative sustainability efforts within and between organizations, and how organizations adopting sustainability can make themselves leaders in their fields. In addition, the course addresses how to respond to resistance to change, both inside and outside the organization, through a combination of a unwavering focus on core values and a combination of practical short and long range planning and encouraging emergent thinking and behavior.
(San Diego)