Leadership Management A & B

Credit: 1.00
Course Preface
Core Code: 37-01-00-00-150
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Course Description
Students will understand the concepts of leadership and the supervisory roles, planning, decision-making, group and organizational dynamics, and functions in an organization. This class teaches how to be an effective leader. Concepts of goal setting, motivation, time management, and other interpersonal skills are taught. Classmates with these skills could become very effective within the student leadership organizations in the high schools. Students may be eligible to receive three (3) credits of concurrent enrollment at a local college if the student completes both semester A and B courses. Dixie State College has presently approved this course.

Core Standards of the Course

Standard 08.0211-01
Students will understand the concepts of leadership and the supervisory role.

• Define the term supervisor.
• Compare the differences between supervisors, middle managers, and top management and relate them to the school organizational structure.
• Identify the four functions in the management process.
• Know the four essential leadership competencies.
• Understand the importance of dealing with politics.

• Understand globalization and cultural variables.
• Understand diversity in the workplace.
• Identify how technology is changing the supervisor’s job.
• Understand the concept of total quality management (TQM).
• Define ethics and relate the concepts to school organizations.

• Define leadership and describe differences between a leader and a supervisor.
• Identify traits to become a successful leader.
• Define charisma.
• Differentiate between task-centered and people-centered leadership behaviors.
• Understand situational leadership.
• Compare and contrast leadership styles between men and women

Standard 08.0211-02
Students will understand the importance of effective planning, decision-making, and control functions in an organization.

• Define time management
• Identify effective time management guidelines.
• Identify and compare effective meeting management tools.

• Define and identify the benefits of productivity.
• Describe how plans should link from the top to the bottom of the organization, utilizing the definitions of strategic and tactical planning.
• Describe Gantt and PERT charts.
• Identify components common to management by objective (MBO) programs.
• Discuss how rewards affect performance.

• Identify the steps of the control process.
• Identify and compare three types of control; preventative, concurrent, and corrective.
• Identify areas of control; costs, inventories, quality, safety, and employees.
• Define just-in-time (JIT) inventory system.
• Know the role of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA).
• Understand potential negatives that controls can create.

• Identify the steps of the decision-making process.
• Describe management information system (MIS).
• Know four types of decision-making styles; analytical, conceptual, creative, and behavioral.
• Discuss three different ethical viewpoints; utilitarian, rights, and justice.
• Compare advantages and disadvantages of group versus individual decision-making.

Standard 08.0211-03
Students will understand how to stimulate individual and group performance in an organization.

• Describe the purposes of performance appraisals.
• Identify three evaluation sources; supervisor, peers or team members, and self-evaluation.
• Differentiate formal and informal performance appraisals.
• Categorize the three most popular sets of criteria used for evaluation; absolute standards, relative standards, and objectives.
• Determine human errors that can distort performance appraisal ratings.

• Define motivation.
• Identify early theories of motivation.
• Identify relationships in the expectancy theory that determine an individual’s level of effort.
• Discuss actions to maximize motivation in student organizations and school-wide.

Standard 08.0211-04
Students will understand how to cope with organizational dynamics.

• Define communication; formal and informal.
• List barriers of effective communication.
• Describe techniques for overcoming communication barriers.
• Define active listening.
• List behaviors for providing effective feedback.

• Contrast a group with a team.
• Define norms.
• Define an emergent leader.
• Identify three categories of teams.
• List characteristics of real teams.
• List actions that can improve team performance.

• Define conflict.
• Identify sources of conflict.
• Explain five basic techniques for resolving conflict.
• Define politicking.
• Contrast distributive and integrative bargaining.

• Explain why people resist change.
• Identify ways to reduce resistance to change.
• Discuss steps to change negative attitudes.
• Explain what causes work-related stress.
• Contrast Type A and Type B behavior.

Standard 08.0211-05
Students will understand the importance of effective planning, decision-making, and control functions in an organization.

• Identify common types of discipline problems.
• List steps in progressive discipline.
• Explain the “hot stove” rule.
• Identify extenuating circumstances as applied to discipline.

• Define organizing and empowerment.
• Describe work specialization.
• Contrast line and staff authority.
• Identify values of job descriptions.
• List the steps of delegation.

• Know key laws, regulations, and procedures affecting human resource practices, including; Civil Rights Act, Equal Employment Opportunity Act, American with Disabilities Act, Family and Medical Leave Act, and background checks.
• Define steps in strategic human resource planning.
• Identify strengths and weaknesses of employee selection devices.
• Explain orientation, employee training, and employee development.

• Describe steps for handling a grievance.

• Define networking.