No one wants a boss like Michael Scott, a central character in NBCСAPPs СAPPThe Office.СAPP But becoming Michael Scott might be worse.
Dr. Patricia Lanier is helping СAPP students avoid such comparisons through her principles of management course.
The course is required for business majors, as well as several other disciplines, and is offered online as well as on-campus.
СAPPItСAPPs all about learning the basics of being a manager,СAPP the professor explains. СAPPRegardless of what your chosen profession is going to be, whether itСAPPs communications or dietetics or even engineering, we hope that at some point in time all our students will eventually make it into a leadership position, either as a supervisor or manager.СAPP
Management of Behavior and Organizations (MGMT 320) prepares students in the BSBA in Management online degree program with the core skills to lead and manage by presenting fundamentals of hiring, pay, recruitment, and more.
Dr. Lanier began teaching online in 2001. Since then sheСAPPs developed a number of methods to connect with students from afar.
СAPPInitially, my concerns were my ability to interact and engage with students because thatСAPPs something I enjoy in the classroom,СAPP she says.
СAPPWhat IСAPPve had to do over time is adapt and come up with creative ways that I can still have that interaction, and students can interact with each other so the experience is not significantly different from students in the classroom.СAPP
A key component of creating that experience is to bring students out of the textbook.
Dr. Lanier says sheСAPPll ask students to analyze current events or even movies or television shows like СAPPThe Office,СAPP СAPPKitchen Nightmares,СAPP or old episodes of СAPPStar TrekСAPP to identify management principles and leadership styles.
СAPPTextbook material is presented in a very sanitized way,СAPP she says. СAPPSo itСAPPs usually pretty easy for a student to do an assignment straight out of a textbook.
СAPPBut when IСAPPm asking them to watch a movie or assess a case of some kind, then theyСAPPve got to learn how to apply that knowledge and recognize different qualities, characteristics or theories or whatever it is theyСAPPve learned.СAPP
Students have to not only describe a leadership style exhibited by a certain character, for instance, but also defend their assessment. Online, this is done through forum posts where students publish and discuss their observations with other students.
Becoming versed in professional collaboration through technology further prepares students to enter the workforce, Dr. Lanier says.
СAPPManagers today have to use so many types of technology,СAPP she says. СAPPI think it helps from a very practical standpoint to make them familiar with Zoom (web conferencing) or forum posts or different video mechanisms.СAPP
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