PPSY 6200 - Positive Leadership and Organizations
(5-0-5)
This course is designed to give students a working and practical knowledge of the growing domain of positive organizational scholarship (POS) based on an intensive immersion in POS research and practice. POS is an interdisciplinary approach to leading and being in work organizations in ways that call forth the best in people, resulting in individual and collective flourishing. Flourishing is a term that captures the optimal state of functioning of individuals, groups or organizations, with indicators such as thriving, engagement, health, growth and creativity as well as other markers of being in a state of positive deviance.
This course also draws upon Positive Psychology to explore leadership that empowers and disciplines the Self as agent––here defined as a person who acts on behalf of self and/or another. As such, this course seeks to prepare students to reflect upon various aspects of leadership dynamics as an ongoing process which may serve as a guide to the development of students’ own capacity for leadership. Students will understand the criteria that qualifies “good leadership” and synthesize learning to reflect upon their own sense of burgeoning leadership.
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