Part 1: Understanding Leadership and Management in Organizations

This is the beginning of a four-part journey into understanding leadership and management. From the concepts of self-awareness within leadership to the classical and contemporary theories within a management landscape, individuals will develop a sense of practical and theoretical understanding within an organization that fosters learning. By focusing on understanding leadership and management within an organization, learners will shift preconceived notions about the art of organizational behavior toward a new way of seeing.

Senge suggests that relationships form from a cause and effect chain, rooted in an interdisciplinary understanding connected to outside factors. This leads to development of a new sense of leadership and management connected to the outside world, which incorporates an enhanced way of understanding of how systems-thinking can impact complexity within an organization.

Throughout the part introductions and conclusions, we will make reference to Peter Senge’s influential work The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization. Citation for the work is below

Senge, P. M. (1990). The fifth discipline: The art and practice of the learning organization. Doubleday/Currency