ADLWPW AREA 5 – Overview and Learning Objectives

Area 5 Overview

In this final area, we will explore the difficult role of leading an organization. Organizations are a series of teams ethically led to a common objective to serve the purpose for which they were founded. The senior executive responsible for leading an organization has to balance the many different perspectives and needs of the community they serve with the internal demands of the organization while living by their own set of internal values.

AREA LEARNING OBJECTIVE: The participant who understands these theories can become a leader who proactively grows the organization to the highest levels of service while navigating this ever-changing environment that constantly puts conflicting pressures inward on the organization.

Lesson 20: The Organization and the Environment

In lesson twenty, we will discuss

• Overview and Understanding the Environment
• The Organization as an Open System
• Leading the Environment

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• LO1: Participants can compare and contrast the five components of the organizational throughput system by matching the component with corresponding behaviors in a knowledge check quiz.
• LO2: Participants can analyze a given scenario related to external pressures on the organization and select an appropriate strategy that is best suited for addressing the pressure in a knowledge check quiz.
• LO3: Participants can explain how much an organization is open or closed to the influences of the external environment by matching the description of behaviors with the label in a given knowledge check quiz.
• LO4: Using materials from this lesson, participants will identify how environmental factors influence organizational outcomes through participation in a discussion question.

Lesson 21: Organizational Culture

In lesson twenty-one, we will discuss

• Understanding and Strengthening a Healthy Culture

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• LO1: Participants can identify and define the three levels of organizational culture in a given knowledge quiz.
• LO2: Participants recognize which applied strategies are for creating or changing a culture and which applied strategies are for sustaining a healthy culture when given a list of leader strategies.
• LO3: Using materials from this lesson, participants will devise and share a plan to address dysfunctional organizational behaviors through participation in a discussion question.

Lesson 22: Leading Change

In lesson twenty-two, we will discuss

• Organizational Adaptation
• Sources of Resistance
• Strategies for Leading Change

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• LO1: Participants can classify changes affecting an organization into one of four quadrants based on the material (Reactive or Anticipated and Internal or External)
• LO2: Participants can explain the specific sources of resistance to change as described in the material by identifying the nature of resistance in a knowledge check quiz.
• LO3: Participants can correctly sequence the strategies for leading change as explained in the material by arranging them in a knowledge check quiz.
• LO4: Using materials from this lesson, participants will be able to analyze and describe the success or failure of past identified change efforts within their organization through participation in a discussion question.

Lesson 23: Creating an Ethical Climate

In lesson 23, we will discuss

• Consequences of an Ethical and Unethical Climate
• Strategies for Creating an Ethical Climate

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• LO1: Participants understand the Broken Windows Theory of Ethical Leadership by identifying the behaviors in a knowledge check quiz.
• LO2: Participants recognize an ethical autopsy by identifying the behaviors in a knowledge check quiz.
• LO3: Using materials from this lesson, participants will be able to analyze and describe the effectiveness of existing leadership behaviors on the ethical climate of their organization through participation in a discussion question.