Courses

The listing of a course description here does not guarantee a course’s being offered in a particular term. Please refer to the published schedule of classes on the MyBU Student Portal for confirmation a class is actually being taught and for specific course meeting dates and times.

• QST MO 498: Directed Study: Management & Organizations
  Directed study in Organizational Behavior. 2 or 4 cr. Application available on Undergraduate Program website.
• QST MO 712: Leading Organizations and People
  This course provides you with an opportunity to deepen your personal practice of management, enabling you to increase your effectiveness as both a manager and team member within your organization. Course content is based on behavioral science research findings as well as concepts and frameworks related to human behavior in an organizational context. Specifically, this course considers: 1) how to develop yourselves as managers, 2) how to work well within teams, 3) how to assess and manage interpersonal dynamics, 4) how to structure more effective organizations, and 5) how to manage organizational change. Tying all of these elements together, we devote particular attention to the traits, skills and behaviors that are indicative of good leadership and how organizations and managers can be transformed for better alignment with the business demands of the future.
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• QST MO 825: Future of Work
  Graduate Prerequisites: (QSTMO712 OR QSTMO713) QST MO712 or QST MO713 - This course is an exploration of the future (or, more accurately, futures) of work that allows students to interrogate changing realities of labor in different industries. Industry guests will supplement course materials designed first to lay out a history of work, and then explore the ways it is currently in flux around the world and across sectors. Students will do a deep dive into a self-selected line of work through which they will engage with questions covering workers' experience, technology, inclusion, and meaning.
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• QST MO 838: People Strategies to Drive Performance
  Graduate Prerequisites: (QSTMO712 OR QSTMO713) - Using readings, case studies and outside speakers, this course focuses on the perspective of the general manager and looks at the utilization of human capital to drive business and organizational performance. The ability to diagnose and improve the alignment between people strategy and business strategy is highly valued in today's economy. Leaders need to not only be able to think strategically and systematically about different aspects of managing an organization's human assets but also the development and implementation of policies and programs to achieve competitive advantage through people.
• QST MO 842: Power and Politics in Organizations
  This course is about getting things done in the real world, where power and politics might be obstacles in your way. This course aims to build students' intuition for understanding power dynamics and using them effectively to analyze their organizational environment and achieve their goals. Both power and politics profoundly impact how one perceives problems and opportunities and, subsequently, decides upon courses of action. In this course, students will work to unearth their implicit theories and feelings about power and politics, test underlying assumptions they hold, and over-write outdated scripts about gaining power and influence so as to develop a more accurate and realistic point of view. Learning how to navigate, wield, and yield power effectively is like learning any complex skill--it rarely comes naturally and usually takes a lot of practice. This course creates the conditions for this type of learning to occur.
• QST MO 844: Managing Organizational Change
  Graduate Prerequisites: (QSTMO712 OR QSTMO713) - The premise of this course is that because change is the only constant in today's global business environment, the ability to create meaningful and sustained change through organizations is essential for your effectiveness as a leader. During the first half of the course, we examine frameworks, dynamics and concepts useful for understanding and navigating change processes, and apply them to gain insight into personal and organizational situations of change. In the second half, we explore the non-linear and ambiguous nature of change processes, and consider how to leverage this dynamism for creating fundamentally new ways of working required in the workplace of the future. This course is particularly relevant for those wishing to develop their leadership and consultation capabilities.
• QST MO 847: Managing High Performance Teams and Project Groups
  This course introduces the challenges of leading and participating in teams and project groups. It emphasizes the role of leadership in composing teams, motivating members, and creating an environment in which teams and their members grow in capacity over time. This course will use cases, experiential exercises, and group projects to help students gain both knowledge of team dynamics and the skills to shape them.
• QST MO 848: Leadership Challenge
  Graduate Prerequisites: (QSTMO712 OR QSTMO713) - This course examines the essence of leadership; its relationship to managing; and the behaviors, attitudes and perspectives that distinguish leaders. Leadership is considered in a variety of ways: leadership in crises, at the top, in the middle, and in groups. Case studies, students' past experiences, instruments, and other learning activities provide opportunities for students to assess and develop their leadership talents.
• QST MO 853: Negotiations
  Graduate Prerequisites: (QSTMO712 OR QSTMO713) - Negotiations are part of daily life inside of organizations and out; yet, effective strategies for negotiation are elusive. Across a variety of negotiation contexts, you will learn different frameworks for thinking about negotiations and best practices. Intellectually, there is an emphasis on the tensions and strategies around claiming and creating value. Practically, there is an emphasis on skill-building through hands-on exercises entailing both individual and team-based negotiations. Students are expected to gain confidence as negotiators through experiential learning.
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• QST MO 860: People Analytics
  This course focuses on developments in People Analytics, an evolving data-driven approach to employee decisions and practices. Managers must decide how to lead people in the context of new technologies, management practices, empirical methods, and increased collaboration with external stakeholders (e.g. software vendors, consultants, academic researchers). The goal of the course is 1) to provide an overview of the people analytics field, 2) to develop skills in research design, and 3) to understand how to implement people analytics projects in an effective and responsible manner. The course covers theory, practice, and methods that are critical for addressing people- related challenges at companies, such as hiring, retaining, evaluating, rewarding performance, and managing teams and social networks, to name a few. While a background in statistics, analytics and regression methods is helpful, it is not required for success in the course. 3 cr.
• QST MO 898: Directed Study: Management & Organizations
  Graduate Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and the department chair - Graduate-level directed study in Organizational Behavior. 1, 2, or 3 cr. Application available on the Graduate Center website.
• QST MO 899: Directed Study: Management & Organizations
  Graduate Prerequisites: Consent of instructor and the department chair - Graduate-level directed study in Organizational Behavior. 1, 2, or 3 cr. Application available on the Graduate Center website.
• QST MO 917: The Craft of Theorizing Research
  Research projects are like gems that need polishing and the craft of polishing them to uncover a theoretical contribution can partly be learned. This intensive course is designed to help participants polish their gems-in- the- making and sharpen their emerging contributions. The seminar is primarily designed for doctoral students who have already collected and/or analyzed data. The common denominator for participants is that they be engaged in research projects reliant on qualitative or quantitative data (e.g., archives, interviews, field observations, and surveys) and be willing to share with the class a draft analytical memo, paper, or chapter from their research.
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• QST MO 990: Current Topics Seminar
  For PhD students in the Organizational Behavior department. Registered by permission only.