HRM 553 - HR Leadership, Performance Management, and Organizational Effectiveness

This course provides insight into effective leadership, performance management and organizational effectiveness in today’s organizations. Students will learn how leaders motivate, influence, and navigate political environments. Leadership components that will be covered in the course will include the nature of leadership, contemporary situational theories of leadership and emerging leadership issues. In addition, students will learn what new emerging leaders need to know about the importance of performance management and aligning the organizational goals with performance management practices. This course will also set the stage for understanding the components of organizational effectiveness. Organizational effectiveness provides leaders with information for improving an organization’s operations and effectiveness, organizational structure and design, the culture of organizations, and organizational change and change management.

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): HRM 532, HRM 547, + Matriculation in HRM program