Leadership

Message From the President

Welcome to California Coast University. I hope you will find this course interesting and useful throughout your career. This course was designed to meet the unique needs of students like you who are both highly motivated and capable of completing a degree program through distance learning.

Our faculty and administration have been involved in distance learning for almost forty years and understand the characteristics common to successful students in this unique educational environment.

This course was prepared by CCU faculty members who are not only outstanding educators but who have real world experience. They have prepared these guidelines to help you successfully complete your educational goals and to get the most from your distance learning experience.

Again, we hope that you will find this course both helpful and motivating. We send our best wishes as you work toward the completion of your program.

Sincerely,

Thomas M. Neal President

BAM 550 Leadership

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BAM 550 Leadership

Course Number BAM 550

Course Title Leadership

Course Description This course focuses on leadership theories that seek to explain how traits, behaviors, or situational factors influence leadership style and effectiveness. Students will develop the competencies and skills to immediately start using these principles in their personal and professional lives. The course also explores the critical question of how well a leader is able to influence followers to achieve group objectives—this is what distinguishes effective from ineffective leaders.

Units of Credit 3 Units of Credit

Course Objectives Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Analyze classical and contemporary leadership theories.

• Examine the importance of managerial leadership skills.

• Differentiate transformational and transactional leadership.

• Evaluate the relationships among negotiation and conflict, influencing tactics, power, and politics.

• Examine the importance of ethical principles, personal and company values, and socially responsible leadership practices.

Learning Resources Textbook: Leadership: Theory, Application, & Skill 5th Edition, 2013 Robert N. Lussier and Christopher F. Achua Cengage Learning

ISBN-13: 9781111827076

All course examinations are based on the contents of the textbook required for this course. To successfully complete the examinations, you will need the textbook. You may rent the textbook from the CCU rental library or you may purchase the textbook from another source.

The Study Guide

The study guide was designed to help you further understand the material in the textbook and master the course content. Each study guide chapter corresponds to a chapter in the textbook.

Additional Readings and Online Resources

To help you to further understand this subject material, additional readings and online resources related to this course are listed in this syllabus.

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The Library Information and Resources Network, Inc. (LIRN)

LIRN is an online library resource that provides access to multiple research databases. CCU doctoral candidates who enrolled in their program after February 1, 2010 receive complimentary access to LIRN.

If you are a current student enrolled in another CCU program and wish to request access to LIRN, you may do so for a one-time fee of $25. Please contact the CCU library to fill out a request form and submit it, with payment, to the university. You will be emailed a confidential identification number to use for the remainder of your studies at CCU.