THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO The Bryan School of Business and Economics Department of Business Administration
MBA 615 – Evening Class LEADERSHIP ASSESSMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
Dr. E. Holly Buttner 361 Bryan email: [email protected] 334-4529
***NOTE: Please complete the Biographical Information form before class and bring it along with the syllabus with you to class on the first night. Packets of materials will be available the first night in class.
***NOTE: Attendance of the first class is mandatory.
Course Objective: The goal of the Management Assessment and Development course is to provide you, as an MBA student, with a developmental opportunity to both assess and improve your managerial skills and performance. Classroom instruction is supplemented with individual assessment accomplished through assessment instruments, group discussion, exercises, and feedback. The course focuses on factors of managerial and leadership performance necessary for success. (See the detailed list of learning objectives on the last page of the syllabus.) This course increases personal awareness in areas such as problem solving, personality type, cognitive style and interpersonal orientation that have implications for managerial success. During the course we will discuss applications of this self-knowledge to the workplace.
The underlying philosophy of this course is that each student must take individual responsibility for managing your own development progress. This course is designed to provide a learning environment that will be conducive to the following: (a) enhancing self-awareness regarding personality, cognitive style, conflict style, interpersonal orientation, and use of managerial skills in the workplace; (b) freedom to take risks and try new behaviors; (c) focusing on behaviors requiring change; and (d) constructively providing and receiving feedback thus helping to shape behavior in the desired direction.
To that end, the grading for MBA 615 will be Pass/Fail. Criteria for passing the course include: attending at least 6 classes including the first class, completing all the assessment instruments by the due date, demonstrating comprehension of assigned readings, participating in class activities, and completion of a comprehensive written Self Assessment and Development Plan.
Attendance Requirement You are allowed one absence in this course. However, you will be responsible for the material covered and the reading assignment. To this end, you are expected to contact the instructor for instructions about a written assignment to make up for the class missed. Participation in the discussion of reading assignments is critical for this course since these readings are used in lieu of a textbook.
Course Materials The course materials for MBA 615 consist of a set of licensed psychological instruments. There will also be reading assignments each week. Reading assignments are posted in Blackboard. Please check Blackboard each week for your readings.
Course Assessments include: 2
Career Success Map Instrument Job Motivator Questionnaire Kirton Adaption- Innovation Instrument Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Strength Deployment Indicator FIRO – Elements-B Campbell Interest and Skills Survey (CISS)
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Course Outline
Week Activity
1 Introduction to Self-assessment
. Description of course content & process (overview) . Ice breaker . Explanation of skill development process . Completion and collection of KAI, MBTI, SDI, and CISS instruments . Completion and discussion of Career Success Map assessment
2 Review and discussion of career readings
. Readings on career management including “The New Career Contract” Reading assignments are posted in Blackboard. Lessons Learned Discussion of the results of the Job Motivator Questionnaire, time permitting
Introduction to Problem-solving and Creativity
. Kirton Adaption-Innovation Instrument (KAI) . Problem-solving style/Theory and Application . Creativity style in practice - activities . Reading Assignment
Note: The Element-B instrument should be completed online by class time in Week 2.
3 Review and discussion of readings on KAI
Lessons Learned
Personality Types and Preferences 3
Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) - Overview, Feedback, and Managerial Implications Similarities and Differences Reading Assignment
4 Review and discussion of readings on personality type
Lessons Learned
Strength Deployment Instrument – Introduction to theory, feedback
5 Review and discussion of the SDI
Lessons Learned
Interpersonal Orientation
FIRO - Element B - Overview and Feedback
6 Debrief of the Element B readings and instrument
Experiential Learning Lessons Learned
Introduction to career planning
CISS Assessment Instrument feedback Discussion of Individual Development Plan Assignment Reading assignment
7 Discussion of career planning; Closure activities
Individual Development Plan Assignment are due 4
Course Learning Objectives - MBA 615
1. Understand your career orientation and strategies for success. Identify your managerial strengths that can create competitive advantage.
2. Develop an awareness of your style of problem solving and decision-making and illustrate how your style helps or hinders your effectiveness in your organization.
3. Learn about your personality type and how it influences your behavior and effectiveness in organizations.
4. Identify your motivational value system and how your behavior shifts when you are under stress and/or in conflict.
5. Predict how three fundamental variables - needs for inclusion, control and affection/openness impact on interpersonal relationships.
6. Describe the challenges of diversity in terms of individual differences in personality, cognitive style, motivational value systems, conflict styles, and interpersonal orientations.
7. Use career interest and skill-related feedback for career planning purposes.
8. Outline a plan for career development in the MBA program, at work and through personal development to strengthen needed skills, experience, and abilities identified by the feedback. Identify developmental opportunities in order to increase your skills in leading teams. Apply your enhanced self-awareness developed through completion and discussion of the assessment instruments in your Individual Development Plan.