Organizational leadership issues for union, community, and other advocate organizations. Analyzes leadership styles, membership recruitment, and leadership development. Examines the role of leaders in internal governance and external affairs, including committee building, delegation, negotiations, and coalition building. An analysis of the growth, composition, structure, behavior, and governmental processes of U.S. labor organizations, from the local to the national federation level. Traditional approaches are evaluated in light of structural changes in labor markets and workforce demographics.
Topics range from targeting and assessments to committee building and leadership development.
Capstone experience for associate degree students. Applies only as elective credit to labor studies degrees. A variable title course, L290 can be repeated for credit with different subjects. The transcript will show a different subtitle each time the course is taken. Some courses focus on contemporary or special areas of labor studies.