Course

Leadership & Management of Organizations

Faculty
Commerce & Business Administration
Department
Business
Course Code
BUSN 3415
Credits
3.00
Semester Length
Flexible delivery ranging up to 15 weeks
Max Class Size
30
Method(s) Of Instruction
Lecture
Typically Offered
To be determined

Overview

Course Description
This upper level course explores management and leadership issues within the context of private, non-profit and public community based organizations and businesses. Organizational structure and culture, human resources management, and contemporary management issues are examined.

Note: Students who have received credit for BUSN 3415 will not receive further credit for CCSD 4415 or vice versa.
Course Content
  1. The Environment of Organizations
    • Organizational styles (for profit, non-profit, public sector)
    • Mission based management
    • Analyzing the environment and strategic planning (SWOT)
    • Funding sources
  2. The Administrative Process
    • Managerial functions, roles and skills
    • Ethical decision making
    • Working with a board of directors
    • The budgeting process
  3. Leading Staff and Volunteers
    • What is leadership?
    • Selecting and compensating staff
    • Motivating staff and volunteers
    • Team building
    • Organizational culture
    • Managing change
  4. Evaluation and Control
    • Behavioural objectives and staff evaluations
    • Program or activity evaluation
Learning Activities
  • Lectures, seminars and discussion
  • Group presentations
  • Videos
  • Web-based discussion
Means of Assessment

This is a graded course.

  • Article/book review(s)                                        
  • Organizational analysis report and/or case analysis
  • Participation
  • Peer review                           
  • Public Presentation   

Students may conduct research as part of their coursework in this class. Instructors for the course are responsible for ensuring that student research projects comply with College policies on ethical conduct for research involving humans, which can require obtaining Informed Consent from participants and getting the approval of the Douglas College Research Ethics Board prior to conducting the research.                         

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the course, the successful student should be able to:

  1. Conduct a comprehensive analysis of an organization or agency
    • analyze management’s approach to issues such as organizational structures, culture, teamwork, leadership, managing change and working with a board of directors
    • recommend effective management strategies to make positive changes within the organization
  2. Analyze current and emerging management issues and trends
  3. Research and apply theories of management approaches to labour relations, employee motivation and leadership skills
Textbook Materials

Textbooks and Materials to be chosen from

Selected readings and cases

Requisites

Prerequisites

No prerequisite courses.

Corequisites

No corequisite courses.

Equivalencies

Courses listed here are equivalent to this course and cannot be taken for further credit:

  • No equivalency courses

Course Guidelines

Course Guidelines for previous years are viewable by selecting the version desired. If you took this course and do not see a listing for the starting semester / year of the course, consider the previous version as the applicable version.

(Current)

Course Transfers

These are for current course guidelines only. For a full list of archived courses please see https://www.bctransferguide.ca

Institution Transfer Details for BUSN 3415
Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) KPU BUSN 2XXX (3)
Simon Fraser University (SFU) SFU BUS 2XX (3)
Thompson Rivers University (TRU) TRU BBUS 2XXX (3)
University of the Fraser Valley (UFV) UFV BUS 3XX (3)
University of Victoria (UVIC) UVIC COM 3XX (1.5)

Course Offerings

Winter 2025