MAN 4881 - Authority Influence and Projects

College of Business

Credit(s): 3
Contact Hours: 47
Effective Term Spring 2021 (585)

Requisites

Admission to Management and Organizational Leadership (Bachelor of Applied Science) (MGTORG-BAS) or
Admission to Business Administration (Bachelor of Science) (BUS-BS) or
Admission to Sustainability Management (Bachelor of Applied Science) (SUSMGT-BAS) or
Admission to Technology Development and Management (Bachelor of Applied Science) (TMGT-BAS) or
Admission to Paralegal Studies (Bachelor of Applied Science) (LEGAL-BAS) or
Admission to Project Management (Certificate with Financial Aid Eligibility) (PRJMGT-CT) or
Admission to Supply Chain Management (Advanced Technical Certificate with Financial Aid Eligibility) (SCMGT-ATC)

Course Description

This course intends to build leadership and management skills that facilitate the effective execution of objectives where stakeholders and resources come from multiple areas, locations, budgets, and organizational substructures. To facilitate the execution of projects and processes to achieve objectives, the topics will include the use of persuasion, motivation, emotional intelligence, cultural intelligence, and influence to gain the power and agreement to ensure the delivery of agreed resources and processes. Important learning will include the leadership and management of teams and groups across multiple locations, structures, and multiple levels of formal authority. The control, communication, and interaction of data, information, knowledge, and learning form a further range of associated topics.

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will devise appropriate methods and objectives to deliver organizational value through the optimization of organizational relationships, teams, groups, and projects by:
    1. assessing contributions, implications, external plans, and the relevant environment for any party that has a linkage with the objectives.
    2. compiling appropriate documentation, sub-goals, and performance requirements with all parties.
    3. designing and selecting appropriate approaches, practices, aids and project management methods.
  2. The student will construct plans and structures to enable the effective achievement of objectives through efficient use of organizational relationships, teams, groups, and projects by:
    1. generating a plan to optimize human resource use and scheduling, while considering external imperatives and limitations and obtaining firm commitments from resource providers.
    2. creating, analyzing, and refining project time and cost estimates to define project baseline, scheduling, and budgets.
    3. implementing a plan that will enable change by achieving control through risk management, enhanced communication and the provision of quality resources for all associated with project teams and groups.
  3. The student will appraise the optimal execution and adapt for required adjustments to achieve outcomes within resource plans through organizational relationships, teams, groups, and projects by:
    1. describing the process of performance monitoring of people, processes, and resources to initiate the plans for the agreed project, teams and groups.
    2. modifying project control plans and practices to ensure effectiveness and negotiating appropriate integration with external and internal stakeholders.
    3. communicating project progress to stakeholders.
    4. developing lead and management project teams.
    5. identifying needs for corrective action, obtaining approvals, performing appropriate actions and evaluating effectiveness.
  4. The student will organize the process to achieve proper closure and integrate relevant parties and resources to achieve this aim by:
    1. obtaining final acceptance of deliverables and performance reviews from appropriate stakeholders.
    2. documenting lessons learned.
    3. determining personnel needed and resources by following appropriate organizational procedures and documentation.
  5. The student will evaluate all actions so that the processes and outcomes maintain ethical, professional, and legal compliance for all organizational relationships, teams, groups, and projects by:
    1. ensuring individual integrity and professionalism by adhering to legal requirements and ethical standards.
    2. enhancing individual competence with continuous learning.
    3. combining personal, ethnic and all categories of cultural differences.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will, with a minimum of 70% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the above stated objectives through classroom measures developed by individual course instructors.

History of Changes

C&I 5/24/2011, BOT 6/21/2011, Effective 20111(0445). Submitted as 4XX2, SCNS approved as 4881. C&I 9/16/2011, BOT 10/2011, Effective 20112(0450). C&I 1/20/2012, BOT 2/21/2012, Effective 20121(0460). C&I Approval: 07/12/2012, BOT Approval: 08/21/2012, Effective Term: Spring 2013 (465). C&I Approval: 09/05/2019, BOT Approval: 09/24/2019, Effective Term: Spring 2020 (570).
C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: , Effective Term: Spring 2021 (585)

Related Programs

  1. Business Administration (BUS-BS) (610) (Active)
  2. Management and Organizational Leadership (MGTORG-BAS) (645) (Active)
  3. Project Management (PRJMGT-CT) (510) (Active)
  4. Supply Chain Management (SCMGT-ATC) (585) (Active)
  5. Technology Development and Management (TMGT-BAS) (625) (Active)