This course is designed for students holding leadership or staff positions overseeing a production-focused environment. This course provides graduate-level concepts on how to achieve organizational alignment between the structural, cultural, and behavioral layers in an organization, to include examining how organizational culture, production systems, just culture, organizational change, and leading systematically contribute toward that goal.

* Day 1, Organizational Culture: How organizational culture impacts organizational performance, cultural frames of reference, Schein’s levels of culture, and Johnson’s cultural web.

* Day 2, Production Systems: How production systems impact organizational performance, Ford's leadership behaviors, integrated operating systems, key unifying processes, and methodologies of continuous improvement.

* Day 3, Just Culture: How establishing a Just Culture impacts organizational performance, Marx's three duties, responses to a breach of duty, and the breach of duty algorithm.

* Day 4, Achieving Alignment: How achieving alignment impacts organizational performance, strategic drift, Kotter's change process model, behavioral economics, the AIDA marketing model, and interpersonal negotiations.

* Day 5, Leading Systematically: Benefits of an effective leadership system, Lencioni's organizational health model, individual credibility, leadership behaviors, and leadership team meetings.