Syallbus
Team Dynamics and Leadership Z371
Tuesday
Spring 2014
Instructor
Josh Plaskoff
Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow
Jim Flynn
Office
BS 4036
BS 4038
BS 4049
Hours
By appointment
By appointment
By appointment
Email
jplaskof@iupui.edu cfwester@iupui.edu ejflynn@iupui.edu
Office Phone
274-3492
274-2544
278-3681
Assistant
Diane Wetzold
Stacey Wessel
Stacey Wessel
Office Phone
274-0866
274-0870
274-0870
REQIIRED TEXTBOOKS AND MATERIALS
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Lencioni, P. Jossey-Bass. 2002. (FDT)
Intercultural Communication, Ting-Toomy, S. and Leeva, C.E., 2nd edition. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Readings Packet: Cases that will be used in class discussion will be available in a readings packer. Information about how to acquire the packet will be provided.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will cover topics in team dynamics, intercultural communication, and leadership that will help students learn how teams work and how to work better in teams in an organization and/or a business. Case studies, readings, and exercises will be used throughout the course.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. To understand and be able to explain what motivates you and others, and how that makes each of us behave the way we do.
2. To be able to productively influence others in a work group or team, whether we have a ‘leadership’ position and power or not.
3. To understand the dynamics of intercultural communication in work groups and teams.
4. To develop intercultural communication skills to communicate, solve problems, make decisions, and resolve conflict.
5. To be able to determine your ethical perspective, as well as the ethical perspective others through the language and terms we use.
6. To understand how our ethical perspective shapes our definition of decisions as good and bad, and the inherent weaknesses of our ethical orientation.
In addition to the course goals and objectives, the Kelley School of Business has
Tuesday
Spring 2014
Instructor
Josh Plaskoff
Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow
Jim Flynn
Office
BS 4036
BS 4038
BS 4049
Hours
By appointment
By appointment
By appointment
jplaskof@iupui.edu cfwester@iupui.edu ejflynn@iupui.edu
Office Phone
274-3492
274-2544
278-3681
Assistant
Diane Wetzold
Stacey Wessel
Stacey Wessel
Office Phone
274-0866
274-0870
274-0870
REQIIRED TEXTBOOKS AND MATERIALS
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, Lencioni, P. Jossey-Bass. 2002. (FDT)
Intercultural Communication, Ting-Toomy, S. and Leeva, C.E., 2nd edition. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Readings Packet: Cases that will be used in class discussion will be available in a readings packer. Information about how to acquire the packet will be provided.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will cover topics in team dynamics, intercultural communication, and leadership that will help students learn how teams work and how to work better in teams in an organization and/or a business. Case studies, readings, and exercises will be used throughout the course.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
1. To understand and be able to explain what motivates you and others, and how that makes each of us behave the way we do.
2. To be able to productively influence others in a work group or team, whether we have a ‘leadership’ position and power or not.
3. To understand the dynamics of intercultural communication in work groups and teams.
4. To develop intercultural communication skills to communicate, solve problems, make decisions, and resolve conflict.
5. To be able to determine your ethical perspective, as well as the ethical perspective others through the language and terms we use.
6. To understand how our ethical perspective shapes our definition of decisions as good and bad, and the inherent weaknesses of our ethical orientation.
In addition to the course goals and objectives, the Kelley School of Business has