EMGT 800W
Managing Professionals: Concepts and Tools for Achieving Better Performance
Offered Summer 2006
Future semester offerings to be announced
Format: On-site
Credits: 3
Instructor
Dr. Tom H. Bowlin
EMGT Lecturer
(913) 897-8564 (office)
(913) 897-8682 (fax)
thbowlin@ku.edu
Course Description
This course will equip participants with new ideas and methods for enhancing professionals’ performance results, particularly in joint work group operations involving professionals with diverse, and perhaps even unfamiliar, knowledge and skills. Course readings, classroom discussions and other activities will emphasize application skills. Drawing on his consulting and work experience in various service industries as well as recently published research, the instructor will assist participants in identifying specific personal means of elevating performance in their joint work groups and in other management situations. Weekly brief reports, a semester paper and journaling will be key course deliverables.
Textbooks
No textbook required
Evolving collection of readings – text and training material excerpts, academic journal articles, etc. – will serve as primary course reference materials.
Additional Information
If you would like to receive an updated syllabus or for more course information, please contact Parveen Mozaffar (
emgt@ku.edu).