BUS 445 - Advanced Team Dynamics

Unit(s): 4

Prepares students to design, launch, lead, participate in, and evaluate complex and dynamic teams. The course is structured to follow the typical stages of team development, beginning with critical considerations for team composition and the team chartering process. Other course topics include defining roles and boundaries in teams, external activities designed to support team processes, communication and feedback in teams, leading teams, conflict management in teams, decision making in teams, global and cross-cultural virtual teams, innovation in teams, and evaluating team performance. This course includes two projects where students engage in a virtual team exercise with university students in another country and an opportunity to interview a team leader in an external organization and observe their team processes and dynamics.

Prerequisite: BUS 304 or BUS 494
School of Management