Public Safety Leadership

This course gives students a theoretical and practical understanding or organization theory, organizational behavior and leadership styles and effectiveness. This course requires an in-person residency and approval of the Director of the Public Safety Institute.

This course provides both practical and theoretical knowledge needed by management for communicating in an environment of cultural change in a diverse and evolving organization marketplace. The course is designed to build communication competence and foster dialogue across personality and cultural conflicts. Finally, the course provides students with a firm knowledge of principles of communication theory, method and application especially as they are relevant to Organization Leadership. The course focuses on issues of intercultural business communication and provides students with the skills needed to successfully manage/lead change and conflict within the diverse workplace. Empases include ethnocentrism, stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination, group identity, variations in cultural values and a crosscultural appreciation of diverse styles of managing and leading in an international context.

This course examines the personnel practices which are common to most public safety agencies. Included among these topics are recruitment, training, retention, motivation and evaluation of personnel. This course also examines the HR issues that are unique to different public safety agencies and explores ways to effectively integrate these differences into a more efficient system. To minimize the potential conflict that might arise from the integration of differing HR systems the course will also focus on the nature of organizational conflict, the development of strategies to minimize conflict and identifying solutions to disputes that are satisfactory to the parties involved. This course requires an in-person residency and approval of the Director of the Public Safety Institute.

A variable content course in which students pursue topics of current relevance and interest in public safety leadership. Content will have a strategic management/leadership focus. A specific description will be published online for the term (eight week session) in which the course is offered. A focal point of this course will be the discussion and preparation of position papers on the issues relevant to the successful management and leadership integration of public safety systems.

The course “Ethics, Values, and the Law” focuses upon changing organizations. As organizations change, they are impacted by numerous ethical and legal considerations. The course will provide an overview which involves attention to the broader context of the changing organizations, the various traditional modes of ethical reasoning, the relevant legal terminology and considerations, and appropriate responses to the selected issues in changing organizations. The course will culminate in an application of these factors to specific organizations. This course requires an in-person residency and approval of the Director of the Public Safety Institute.

A variable content course in which students pursue topics of current relevance and interest in public safety leadership. Content will have a strategic management/leadership focus. A focal point of this course will be the discussion and preparation of position papers on the issues relevant to the successful management and leadership integration of public safety systems. This course requires an in-person residency and approval of the Director of the Public Safety Institute.