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Organizational Leadership and Supervision
  • OLS 10000 Introduction to Organizational Leadership (1 cr.) P: Pre/OLS-Majors only. Department permission required. Class 1. This course is not offered in the summer terms. This class provides an overview of the field of leadership and the practices of effective supervisors, managers, and leaders applicable to most organizations. Student analyze assumptions on a variety of leadership and personal/organizational development topics. Student will explore unique options for OLS majors and determine individual requirements for completing their leadership degree by creating a personal strategic plan of study. This course is only open to students planning to complete the Organizational Leadership major at IUPUI.
  • OLS 11000 Introduction to Organizational Leadership and Supervision (1 cr.) P: Must be an undergraduate or instructor permission. Supervisory Leadership: Story Problems is a survey course that explores perspectives relating to a large number of supervisory leadership issues today. Topics vary each semester.
  • OLS 25200 Human Behavior in Organizations (3 cr.) Class 3. Study of the bases of human relations and organization of individual and group behavior. Special emphasis on typical supervisory relationships.
  • OLS 26300 Ethical Decisions in Leadership (3 cr.) Class 3. This class is for students interested in discussing and contemplating the difficult legal and ethical situations facing managers in all sizes and types of organizations. Students in this class will read and discuss a variety of writings on ethics in the workplace and also analyze both written and videotaped legal/ethical scenarios.
  • OLS 27400 Applied Leadership (3 cr.) Class 3. Introduction to and overview of the fundamental concepts of supervision. Emphasis on the supervisor's major functions and essential areas of knowledge, relations with others, and personal development.
  • OLS 32700 Leadership for a Global Workforce (3 cr.) P: OLS 25200 and ENG-W 131 or consent of instructor. Variety of leadership issues including expatriate assignments issues including expatriate assignments, international business strategies and their culture and managerial implications, and a review of business and management practices around the world.
  • OLS 32800 Principles of International Management (3 cr.) P: OLS 32700. Class 3. This course is a survey of issues relating to international management and international enterprise. The goal is to help students understand the principles and practices involved in managing across national boundaries so that they can be more effective leaders and managers-both domestically and internationally.
  • OLS 33100 Occupational Safety and Health (3 cr.) Class 3. Aspects of occupational safety and health that are essential to the first-line supervisor. Emphasis on economic, legal, and social factors related to providing a safe and healthful working environment.
  • OLS 36800 Personal Law (3 cr.) Class 3. Influence of the law on personnel-human resource management. Covers such topics as discrimination based on sex, age, national origin, or handicap; recruitment and selection; affirmative action; rights of union and nonunion employees; Fair Labor Standards Act; Equal Pay Act and comparable worth; employee benefits plans; unemployment compensation; and right to discharge.
  • OLS 37100 Project Management (3 cr.) P: ENG-W 131 and MATH 11100. Class 3. This course provides the basics of the project management discipline and allows the student to apply these skills in team-based situations.
  • OLS 37300 Case Studies in Leadership (3 cr.) Class 3. Analysis of selected case studies with emphasis on attitudes, philosophies, and responsibilities of leaders in relationship to peers, followers, and superiors.
  • OLS 37500 Training Methods (3 cr.) P: OLS 25200 and OLS 27400 or consent of instructor. Aspects of job training that are essential to the first line supervisor. Emphasis on understanding the way people learn jobs and job skills.
  • OLS 37800 Labor Relations (3 cr.) Problems of workers, with possible solutions as suggested by organized labor and management. Regulations concerning management, labor, the collective bargaining agreement, and grievance and arbitration procedures.
  • OLS 38300 Human Resource Management (3 cr.) An overview of human resource functions in organizations today. Descriptions of each major function; case studies to explore applications of human resource principles.
  • OLS 39900 Special Topics in OLS (Variable Topics) (1-6 cr.) Hours and subject matter to be arranged by staff. Primarily for upper-division majors with specific interests and aptitudes. May be repeated for up to 6 credit hours.
  • OLS 39000 Leadership Theories and Processes (3 cr.) P: OLS 32700. OLS majors must have all 100/200-level coursework completed prior to enrollment in OLS 39000 include 6.0 credit hours of math above 11100. Class 3. Knowledge and applied leadership skills essential for establishing and continuously improving organizational effectiveness by forstalling and solving workplace problems.
  • OLS 41000 Survival Skills in Organizational Careers (3 cr.) Class 3. OLS 41000 may not be taken concurrently with OLS 49000. OLS 41000 provides the proposal for the OLS 49000 senior research project. Serves as the profession development capstone experience for baccalaureate students in the Department of Organizational Leadership and Supervision. Students will develop an approved research project proposal.
  • OLS 42300 Go Green (3 cr.) This is an interdisciplinary course emphasizing sustainability, globalization, and an international culture experience. In this context, sustainability refers to design, engineering, manufacturing, technology and leadership processes implemented and maintained in industry and business for the purpose of being environmentally responsible, energy efficient, cost effective, and socially responsible.
  • OLS 45400 Gender and Diversity in Management (3 cr.) P: OLS 25200. Supervisors need to learn to recognize cultural diversity, learn to value and respect fundamental differences, and find common ground on which to build relationships of trust and mutual respect with diverse employees. This course will introduce awareness-based training to increase self-awareness on diversity related issues such as sterotyping and cross-cultural differences and how to respond to differences in the workplace.
  • OLS 47400 Conference Leadership Training (3 cr.) This is an applications oriented course that provides students with the necessary skills to present technical information, conduct problem solving and decision making meetings, plan and lead interactive conferences for many organizational purposes. Special emphasis is placed on leading, facilitating, and structuring information in various types of meetings.
  • OLS 47600 Compensation Planning and Management (3 cr.) Class 3. Focuses on the management of employee compensation. Examines the current state of compensation management and implications of recent theoretical and research developments related to compensation decisions. Gives each student the opportunity to develop a compensation package.
  • OLS 47700 Conflict Management (3 cr.) This course provides students with a firm understanding of the theory and context as they relate to front-line supervision and managing conflict in the workplace including communicating with others, collaborating, negotiating effective outcomes, mediating disputes, leading teams, and handling employee relations issues.
  • OLS 47900 Staffing Organizations (3 cr.) Class 3.A detailed look at the recruiting function of organizations to give the student a sense of the challenges of recruiting qualified employees in the twenty-first century. Actual examples, group exercises, and considerable class discussion.
  • OLS 48700 Leadership Philosophy (3 cr.) P: OLS 39000. Class 3. This course facilitates the understanding and practice of various leadership roles required in supervisory situations. Students, through applying group dynamics and leadership theory, will develop new skills, capabilities, and understandings. Students will have fundamental shifts in their thinking about traditional leadership and in their ability to function in new leadership styles.
  • OLS 49000 Senior Research Project (3 cr.) P: OLS major, TCM 320, senior standing, OLS 48700, and consent of instructor. Individual members of this seminar-type class study problems or areas of their own choosing in the field of supervision, guided by the instructor,  Class presentations by students on their progress; instructor-led discussions of research methods.
  • OLS 58100 Workshop in OLS (1-6 cr.) Explores issues in leadership and organizational change. Included are change theories, utilizing resistance to change, contemporary approaches to change, the future workplace, and researching best practices in organizational change.
  • OLS 58200 Leadership & Organizational Change (3 cr.) P: Graduate Standing. This course explores issues in leadership and ogranizational change included are change theories, utilizing resistance to change, contemporary approaches to change, the future workplace, and researching best practices in organizational change.
  • OLS 50100 Leadership Ethics (3 cr.) P: Graduate Standing. An examination of ethical, legal, and policy issues facing business and technology leaders. Topics include ethical decision making, corporate social responsibility, code of ethics, public policies and government regulations, international business practices, technology innovation, risk management in a global environment, and specific areas of law-employment, health and safety, environmental, contract, warranties and liabilities, intellectural property, technology law, and international laws and regulations.
  • OLS 51500 Foundations in Human Resource Development (3 cr.) P: Graduate Standing. A survey course emphasizing the human resource function (and its development) in the context of the work organization. Human resource development topics include exploration of various training and development techniques, the relation of training to organizational strategies, training needs analysis, evaluation of training, and career development. The strategic approach to human resource management also is covered, including what human resource professionals can and should do to help the organization succeed.
  • OLS 56300 Sustainable Practices in Bussiness & Industry in the European Union (3 cr.) P: Graduate Standing. This course examines and critically assesses sustainable practices in businesses, industries, and/or municipalities in Germany or France. Students will spend one week in Marseille, France or Mannheim, Germany visiting, touring, and analyzing businesses, industries or municipalities on their sustainable practices. In addition, to learning about the organization's sustainable practices, students will also learn about their specific country's culture and some language skills.
  • OLS 57100 Advanced Project Management in Technology (3 cr.) P: Graduate Standing. This course enables the student to learn project management in technolog through the application of project approaches in a team based setting. Through the application of project tools and templates, the student learns the project life-cycle approach as demonstrated through actual and simulated project situations. The course presents the terms and approaches used in industry today and allows the student to apply these methods through both individual and team based settings.
  • OLS 57400 Managerial Training and Development (3 cr.) P: Graduate Standing. Review of current managerial education and development theories and practices; discussion of fundamental social, economic, and political changes affecting business and the work of managing; implications of these changes for individual manager development and continued growth.
  • OLS 58300 Coaching and Mentoring in Organizations (3 cr.) P: Graduate Standing. This course explores issues and practices in technologically-driven organizations pertaining to the roles and functions that coaching and mentoring play in employees development. The focus of the course is on identifying coaching opportunities, enhancing communication skills, developing and implementing coaching and mentoring strategies, and evaluating the outcomes of these strategies.
  • OLS 58000 Interpersonal Skills for Leaders (3 cr.) P: Graduate Standing. Development and improvement of intepersonal dynamic skills for effective leadership in organizations. Emphasis on action learning and real-world application of skills.
  • OLS 59800 Directed MS Project (1-6 cr.) P: Concent of Instructor. A formal investigation of a prticular issue or problem under the guidance of the Directed Project Chair and Advisory Committee. Not applicable to a thesis option plan of study. Enrollment is arranged with instructor and approved by the department, but in the majority of cases will involve enrollment during at least two consecutive terms for a total of three credits.
  • OLS 30200 Leadership and Economic Aspects of Sustainable Technologies (3 cr.) Class 3. This course will examine what it takes to be an environmental leader. It will look at the standards, implicit or explicit, that you must meet to be green. How you communicate what your sustainable technologies business is doing right and what it is doing wrong. How your sustainable technology company can be heard amid the "green noise" in the market place and what are the new opportunities emerging for companies in the green economy.
  • OLS 20000 Introduction to Sustainable Principles and Practices (3 cr.) This course will introduce students to sustainability and its principles. The course focuses on how and why sustainability became important in the world. The course covers: principles of sustainability; history of sustainability; historical economic aspects of sustainability; the definitions of sustainability and sustainable development. The course also introduces students to the applications of the principles of sustainability to design, building, energy, and commerce. The course presents examples of successful international community sustainable development projects.
  • OLS 38500 Leadership for Quality and Productivity (3 cr.) P: Junior Standing; ENG-W 131. Management perspectives and applications necessary for success in today's quality-driven organizations and industries including various topics relating to management systems: TQM, ISO, Six-sigma.
  • OLS 46700 Service Learning (3 cr.) P: OLS 25200. Service learning is a reflective experience in which students are actively engaged in the community and integrate that experience into the classroom.