MGMT 2141 Power and Influence
Power and influence are crucial to understanding organizational dynamics, resolving conflict, navigating and promoting change, building cooperation, and developing professional skills in the workplace. The course aims to help students identify, diagnose, and analyze power as well as expose them to influence methods from an organizational, managerial, and professional skills perspective. The purpose of this course is to examine the different types of formal and personal power people use to influence others, explore ways power and influence are used for both good and bad, and develop students capabilities to create their own path to obtaining, managing, and sustaining power and influence.
Course overview
- Department
- Management and Organization
- School
- CSOM
- Credits
- 3
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Offered
- Annually
Requirements fulfilled
Course evaluations
- Course rating
- 3.96 / 5 · Very Good
- Instructor rating
- 4.13 / 5 · Very Good
- Terms evaluated
- 7
| Term | Instructor | Course overall | Instructor overall | Well organized | Clear learning objectives | Intellectually challenging | Helpful assignments | Applicable beyond course | Attendance necessary | Weekly effort | Responses |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spring 2026 | Rick Arrowood | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.3 | 4.1 | 4.4 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 4–6 hrs/week | 26 of 35 |
| Fall 2025 | Rick Arrowood | 4.3 | 4.7 | 4.3 | 4.5 | 4.5 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 4.4 | 1–3 hrs/week | 12 of 14 |
| Spring 2025 | Rick Arrowood | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 4.1 | 1–3 hrs/week | 31 of 33 |
| Fall 2024 | Rick Arrowood | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.2 | 4.2 | 4.7 | 4.5 | 1–3 hrs/week | 34 of 36 |
| Spring 2024 | Rick Arrowood | 3.5 | 3.7 | 3.4 | 3.7 | 3.8 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 1–3 hrs/week | 24 of 33 |
| Fall 2023 | Rick Arrowood | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 30 of 32 |
| Spring 2023 | Rick Arrowood | 4.2 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.3 | 1–3 hrs/week | 29 of 35 |