Core Curriculum Learning Goals
in Leadership and Organizational Change
All students will further develop their abilities as reflective scholar-practitioners and have a broad and deep understanding of and practical engagement with ethical and participatory leadership in the design and implementation of organizational change activities. The specific learning goals are:
• To understand the major theoretical perspectives in leadership and organizational change literature regarding:
a. the complexities of organizational leadership at the beginning of the 21st Century;
b. the rationale for and difficulties of creating new organizational forms; and
c. the strengths and weaknesses of different organizational change strategies in relation to different organizational settings.
• To apply major theoretical perspectives in the leadership and organizational change literature to real-life cases and to reflect on these applications.
• To reflect and act on one's own ideas, analyses, values and personal and organizational interests in relation to issues of participatory leadership, new organizational forms and desired organizational change strategies.
in Modes of Inquiry/ Research Skills
Students will gain an understanding of scholarly inquiry that is both practice-based and theory-based, and will have the knowledge and methodological tools with which to carry out original research. Specific learning goals are:
• To understand and critique research and scholarly literature in leadership and organizational change.
• To design original research that adds to the knowledge base of one's own field.
• To reflect and act on one's own ideas, analyses, and values as a researcher-practitioner.
