RockhuRst univeRsity 2012–2014 catalog

clear focus on both professional development andthe ability to meet the day-to-day challenges ofleadership. Students will also explore their learninggoals in the context of mentoring, and will beintroduced to executives and other potential mentorsfrom the community.MG 7502. Professional Developmentfor Managers II (1)For Executive Fellows Program Only. This coursebuilds on the Professional Development Plancreated in PDE-I, and extends into team andorganizational leadership challenges. Studentsidentify and articulate an organizational issue to beanalyzed and addressed in the form of an ExecutiveProject. This will set-up planning and implementationthat will take place through the secondyear of the program. Additionally, students will gothrough a formal identification and matching processto establish mentoring relationships. Ongoingexploration of team and cohort dynamics, and theexecutive coaching process will continue throughoutthe semester.MG 7503. Professional DevelopmentColloguium (1)For Executive Fellows Program Only. This coursebuilds on the Executive Project identified in previoussemester. Students will learn and practiceusing research methodologies that will aid in actionresearch specific to their executive projects.MG 7504. Professional Developmentfor Managers III (1)For Executive Fellows Program Only. This courseexplores concepts of change agency and CorporateSocial Responsibility through community-basedintervention. It provides tools of analysis andengagement in order to meet the diverse needs ofmultiple stakeholders and society while simultaneouslycreating value for the firm. Focused on theknowledge and skills necessary to recognize organizationalinterdependencies and to balance theincreasingly complex interactions among competingstakeholder groups, students will begin workwith Cohort Clients to assess current needs, analyzeorganizational dynamics, provide alternatives,and contract for services. Also, as an extensionof the work completed in PDE-II, students willconduct organizational research for an independentExecutive Project, including recommendations foraction, which is presented to key stakeholder(s).Ongoing exploration of team and cohort dynamics,and the executive coaching/mentoring processeswill continue throughout the semester.MG 7505. Professional Developmentfor Managers IV (3)For Executive Fellows Program Only. In thiscourse, students are introduced to models ofsustainable organizational change intervention,and will use these models to implement strategictransformational changes of lasting impact. Multipleinterventions (both small- and large-system)will be designed and implemented; an individualchange plan for the student’s own organization,as an extension of the Executive Research Projectcompleted in PDE-III; and another group-basedchange plan for one or more of the selected CohortClients. Guidance from faculty is provided inthe design, implementation and evaluation of thechange project and in the preparation of a writtenreport and formal presentation. Ongoing explorationof team and cohort dynamics, and the executivecoaching/mentoring processes will continuethroughout the semester, culminating with a newProfessional Development Plan to carry the studentforward from the program.MG 7815. Leadership Practicum (3)Executive Fellows Program Only. This courseprovides students an experience so as to developskills of leadership, organization, cooperation, andworking through others. The course focuses ondevelopment and is sequenced at the mid-point ofthe program; the topics should be relevant also tothe individual coaching students are receiving.MG 7830. Mensch Manager (2)Executive Fellows program only. The fundamentalpremise is that a leader in the Jesuit tradition“manages like a mensch.” Mensch is Yiddish fora gentle, proper person of integrity, honor andhumility, and is perceived by others to be decent,morally upright, and polite. This course exploreshow one can remain true to principles and personalvalues and still achieve professional successby focusing on how a mensch acts and interactswith other people to achieve results. The finaldeliverable for the course is the student’s PresentationPortfolio, with artifacts showing learning andprogression in each of the Executive Fellows learningobjectives.MG 7920. Worldviews and Ethical Principles inBusiness (3)Executive Fellows Program only. This course isconcerned with the general understanding andapplication of ethical principles in business. Theaims of the course are to explain the nature of aworldview, and various philosophies of the humanperson, in order to provide an overall structure foran understanding of ethical approaches to business;to learn how to identify and apply these ideas bothin life generally and in the business world; and,to help students to clarify, develop and supporttheir own worldviews in order to cultivate a moralcompass in business practice and decision-making.Many related issues will be discussed along the wayincluding moral objectivism vs. moral relativism,freedom and pluralism, morality and law, issuesof liability and practice, and consumerism andmaterialism and their effects on society, and on ourunderstanding of the human person.Helzberg School of ManagementGraduate Programs355