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Management graduate class receives new web-based leadership modules

Written by Johnathan Silver, The Shorthorn senior staff

Thursday, 28 January 2010 07:50 PM

Dr. James Quick, Professor of Organizational Behavior, lectures on the ethical dilemmas that management positions face and where they come from on Wednesday at the College of Business Administration Building. Quick�s class focuses on teaching the value of emotional leadership in management and encourages students to learn from real world experience. (The Shorthorn: Andrew Buckley)

A business management course now has an online component that addresses emotional leadership and helps students channel emotions to understand employees.

Organizational behavior professor James Campbell Quick wants his effective leadership course students to be both leaders and managers in the workplace.

There’s definitely a difference between the two terms, he said.

“Managers keep the train on the track,” Quick said. “Leaders build the track and lead the train.”

Quick and Prashant Ranade, a former Siemens senior executive, will use Web material and self-evaluation techniques to help students learn the alternative form of leading.

Ranade said he met Quick last year and liked his teaching approach. He then introduced the online material for the professor’s course, revamping it.

“It provides practical and business experience,” he said. “I use this program with clients in the business and corporate world.”

Andy Oppong, business graduate student, said he previously had Quick as a professor, liked his teaching style and decided to take this class.

“I hope to get a lot more insight in leadership styles and how to be a good leader,” he said.

Quick said he will teach his students that emotions — not learning how to give orders — move people into action. Their intelligence quotient, or IQ, is important in school but it only gets you to the table, he said.

“What really makes a great leader is EQ, emotional quotient”

James Campbell Quick,
Management professor

“What really makes a great leader is EQ, emotional quotient,” he said.

At the end of the semester, students should be able to identify their strengths and weaknesses to explain their leadership approach, and be able to sense others’ strengths and weaknesses.

Some ways they will go about it include interviewing a leader and writing a self-assessment paper.

Business graduate student Bethany McGuire said she’s taking the advanced graduate elective, to improve her leadership skills at her current position as an assistant controller in manufacturing.

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