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From the smallest enterprise to the largest corporation, organisations are created and designed by people to fulfil human objectives.
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Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Professor of Management Practice in Organisational Behaviour
Charles Handy Chair in Organisational Behaviour; Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Assistant Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Professor of Organisational Behaviour; Chair, Organisational Behaviour Faculty
Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Clinical Professor of Organisational Behaviour; Director of Executive Education
Professor of Organisational Behaviour; Academic Director, Leadership Institute
Associate Professor of Organisational Behaviour
Professor of Organisational Behaviour; Chair, PhD Programme
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Corporate Social Responsibility
Developing Effective Managers in Orgs
Executive Leadership
The first rule of leadership and management success is always to know your strengths and weaknesses in order to know what you offer to the people you work with, and where you need to focus effort on improvement.
Leading People and Organisations
Leading with Impact
Performing in Organisations
Learn how to ensure that a business acts ethically, and with integrity and professionalism, by adhering to standards and creating your own.
To achieve success in any organisation, leaders must inspire commitment from others, elicit contributions toward common goals, coordinate both within and across teams, and proactively and effectively adapt to change.
Optional courses providing a deep dive into specialist areas.
View electives Show lessThere are many books, articles & courses on managing crises. Most focus on the structures, processes that companies can instil within their corporate framework to mitigate the risk & aftermath of a potential crisis. We believe these are important aspects organizations should take into account. However, we also believe it is critical to understand how crises change the dynamic of human decision-making & communication, & the resulting behaviour of individuals who face crises. It is the human factor, on which we focus in this course, that is the single greatest variable & often hardest to manage and control during a crisis. Integrating evidence-based knowledge from marketing, organizational behaviour, & public-policy, this course will focus on three inter-related critical areas of crisis management: decision-making, communication & learning. The course will be interactive, immersing students in a crisis simulation involving actors, real time decisions, & communication to the media.
Understanding diversity and being able to address issues of bias in organizations is no longer a ‘nice-to-have’ leadership skill – it is a need-to-have. Why do so many leaders get it wrong, failing to create inclusive environments for racial minorities, women, LGBTQ+ individuals, and other underrepresented backgrounds? And why don’t organizations make more progress on diversity given how much they talk about it?
Poll after poll has confirmed that an astonishing number of workers are disengaged from their work. But more than ever before, organizations need employee engagement and creativity to win. Why is this happening? And how can we fix the problem?
This course provides training in both the theory and practice of negotiation with an emphasis on an entrepreneurial context. In this course you will acquire the conceptual skills necessary to become a sophisticated analyst and deal architect of various negotiation situations, including those faced by an entrepreneur throughout the entire business cycle of the entrepreneurial journey from capital raise to exits/IPO of the business, and all other negotiations in-between. This includes a deep understanding of the underlying structure of the negotiation, deal terms specific to the entrepreneurial space, as well as the psychology behind negotiation-based judgment and decision-making. The course is grounded in the theory and practice of negotiations, complemented by examples and speakers from the entrepreneurial ecosystem. The goal of his course it to brick-by-brick instil the comfort and confidence needed when called upon to negotiate for your business.
Why this elective? As described in the school's Elective Portfolio Review (2012), "recruiters are increasingly demanding that students are equipped with a broader set of 'softer' skills which will allow them to be more effective in the workplace. Currently, such skills are not formally delivered as part of the elective portfolio." Building and maintaining effective relationships is at the core of career and business success. This elective has been developed to give you an opportunity to refine your relationship building and management skills and to ensure that you are well equipped to meet the inter-personal challenges that often become increasingly complex and demanding the more senior you get. The objective of this course is thus to help you develop your ability to build more effective professional relationships. This involves a set of skills that are evidence-based and can be learnt through practice. Given that this course is about building relationships, being a passive observer wi
Drawing on the Leadership Institute’s substantial research and practitioner work in this area, this elective offers an introduction to corporate governance combined with the topic of board effectiveness. Students will be exposed to blend of taught and experiential inputs on governance and the often neglected board dynamics, providing an opportunity to learn as well as build their capability to work as an effective board contributor, adviser or stakeholder. They will also have the opportunity to reflect on how the data generated by their leadership assessment stream can be used to inform a development plan to move them towards being "board ready" and/or increasing their effectiveness if they already are a member of a board.
The purpose of this course is to help you develop skills and knowledge critical for leading groups of people effectively in organisations. Through assessment tools, exercises, films, cases, role-plays, and other assignments, you will gain a stronger understanding of what it takes to excel in leadership positions. This course builds from the premise that leadership skills complement the technical and diagnostic skills learned in other London Business School courses. Because most candidates seek or encounter leadership responsibilities, this course is relevant for every student pursuing a managerial career.
This is a class on helping you change things. How can you stop procrastinating on important tasks? How can you convince your technical salespeople to sell business solutions not hardware? How do you get people to start buying their meat from local and humane farms? On the one hand, these are very different changes on different levels of analysis: individual, organizational, and societal. On the other hand, all change efforts boil down to the same mission: Can you get people to start behaving in a new way?
Negotiation & Bargaining
Power is one of the most fundamental concepts in the social sciences. Throughout history, people have been fascinated by power. From philosophers, to politicians, to even comic book writers, people have observed that regardless of whether you have a desire or disdain for it, power plays a pivotal role in societies and organizations. The purpose of this course is to help you (i) understand, (ii) analyze, and (iii) harness power. Both anecdotal evidence and decades of research have shown that power can dramatically impact the way we think, feel and behave—in ways we do not expect. The skills you will learn in the course through conceptual models, tactical approaches, and simulation exercises will allow you to lead effectively regardless of where you are in your career trajectory.
We stand in the midst of one of the greatest revolutions in organisations and work the world has ever seen. The forces that are shaping our work, our organisations and institutions are becoming ever more apparent as their velocity increases. The trajectory of these forces is unknowable - with future scenarios ranging from the most optimistic to the downright bleak. In this elective we explore these key themes. First, how the context of work and organisations will be shaped by the forces of globalisation, technology, demography, societal changes and resource constraints over the coming decades and the opportunities and challenges this creates. Then we consider the impact this will have on organisations and ecosystems of knowledge and talent, and the role of the company in the community and in society. Finally, we take a closer look at what this means for leadership and for you as you develop your own ideas about how best to prepare for the future.
The course is aimed at students who want to reflect on how to live more fulfilling personal and professional lives. . Wisdom is an expertise in dealing with difficult questions of life and adaptation to its complex requirements. Wisdom takes a long-term perspective and underpins individual and societal happiness. Wisdom and happiness are founded on a healthy relationship with reality, with oneself, and with other people. This course will address how to grow in wisdom and happiness, drawing on diverse disciplines and traditions, including psychology, systems theory, philosophy, and the humanities.
Micro OB - Individuals
Micro OB - Teams
Short programmes offering academic excellence, global focus and exceptional diversity of perspective.
View programmes Show less"Attending the Accelerated Development Programme is a unique opportunity for participants to learn not only from our world-class faculty but from their fellow participants. Consequently, the way the programme is designed encourages you to get to know as many people as possible and to form a life-long network of culturally diverse peers".
"How people are managed is the essence of high performance business culture. How people are mismanaged is the cause of most failures. Many professionals and executives excel in their technical skills but are often quite uncertain in the area of interpersonal skills."
"Organisations thrive when there is a strong alignment between their business goals and their people strategy. This programme will help you identify the steps and form the action plan that will take your organisation to where you want to be in the future."
"You get appointed as a manager but you never get appointed as a leader"
"Thinking strategically, developing leadership skills and managing globally are the keys to achieving and maintaining competitive advantage in a rapidly evolving marketplace".
Apply your expertise and make your mark on the future development of organisational behaviour.
Interested in joining our world-leading faculty as a research leader and lecturer?
08 Jul 2022
Professor Randall Peterson lifts the lid on why some boards are dysfunctional and offers insight into how to turn things around
12 Jun 2019
Professor Madan Pillutla explains how to improve good judgement in making financial choices and the importance of removing bias from investment decisions
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