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The impetus for Dr. Audrey Murrell’s project, Teaching
Management and Leadership through Classic and
Contemporary Literature and Film, came
from a desire to help undergraduate students
with limited work experience understand the
management and leadership challenges in
organizations.
Management and leadership development is
an area of special interest to Murrell, Katz
Graduate School of Business.
Murrell plans to design an enriched section of
Organizational Behavior utilizing the Hartwick
Collection of Leadership cases and videos. This collection uses classic and contemporary literature and
films to explore key management issues such as
motivation, communication, conflict, ethics,
teamwork and leadership.
Organizational Behavior is a required
course within the College of Business
Administration, an undergraduate program that
focuses on understanding the issues, strategies,
and dynamics that affect human behavior at work.
Her goal is to involve students in actual
work situations with a common framework for
exploring key challenges facing managers and
leaders in today’s organizations. |
Audrey
Murrell, right, discusses her
project with
Miguel Olives, doctoral student. |
In addition to the use of the Hartwick Collection,
students will select of piece of literature or film and,
with guidance from both the instructor and peers,
develop a new case study that examines a key management
issue or problem. This
student-developed material, along with some of the cases
and videos for the series, will be made available to
instructors in other sections of this course to increase
the lasting impact of this project.
Dr.
Murrell, who has taught at Pitt since 1987, first in
psychology and after 1989 in the business school,
teaches an array of courses at undergraduate, graduate,
executive, and doctoral levels.
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