-Professor I is one of, if not, the most considerate and understanding professors I've ever had, while still upholding standards in the classroom. She is constantly uplifting and cares deeply about her students and their success. I cannot recommend Professor I's Organizational Behavior class enough.
-Although I enjoyed the class material, I think that Professor Ianniello made this class what it is. She was engaging and caring, and I feel that even after the conclusion of this class I can reach out to her for advice or help. This course could have the potential to be very boring. Professor Ianniello was spectacular and is my favorite professor this semester!
-Prof. Ianniello is the best. She is super inclusive and respectful. Participation was a big part of the class, and she always tried her best to get people to participate and be engaged through her slides or activities. She helped me learn and grasp concepts without me feeling the mental exhaustion that sometimes comes with learning new material.
-I enjoyed everything about this class. The in–class activities, the way the Professor engaged students and helped us learn the concepts through her lectures, the guest speakers, and the way everything was structured made it one of my favorite classes this semester.
As an introduction to the study of human behavior in organizations, this course aims at increasing an awareness and understanding of individual, interpersonal, group, and organizational events, as well as increasing a student's ability to explain and influence such events. The course deals with concepts that are applicable to institutions of any type; a central thrust of these concepts concerns the way institutions can become more adaptive and effective. The course is designed to help students understand and influence the groups and organizations to which they currently belong and with which they will become involved in a later career.
Any change, innovation, or new thing begins with an idea. While one person might come up with an initial idea, the idea, and the thing it consequently turns into, has the potential to become better when built upon by other people. The purpose of this course is to learn how to effectively develop and work with ideas to innovate and enact change in the context of organizations and beyond. Building from research on organizational creativity, innovation, collaboration, and entrepreneurship, students will learn frameworks for understanding the influence of individuals, social processes, and context on creativity and innovation and apply these frameworks throughout the course. Students will practice the key skills of idea work--generating, connecting, communicating, evaluating, and reshaping ideas--so that they can make things that matter.