MGT544 Effective Problem Solving and Decision Making

This course focuses on skillful problem-solving and decision-making as keys to effective managerial leadership. Students focus on specific work situations, learning to apply both experience-based and formal problem solving methods. With the aims of minimizing their deficiencies and enhancing their strengths, students examine their thinking and decision making preferences and practices. They learn ways to engage in comprehensive, flexible thinking, thus enhancing their abilities to generate good alternatives, design something new, and successfully plan and implement. Finally, students learn how to identify and avoid reasoning fallacies so that they can present sound, persuasive arguments for their problem solutions and decisions. [core] Prerequisite(s): None, although this is a course in the Master of Science in Management With Special Emphasis on Organizational Leadership. It is also part of a set sequence of courses and either incorporates or builds upon material from previous courses, such as the assessment results for MGT543, Assessment of Leadership in Organizations. 3 semester hours