AS 304 - Air Force Leadership and Management

Credit Hours: 2

Emphasizes the concepts and skills required by the successful manager and leader. Includes individual motivational and behavioral processes, leadership, communication, and group dynamics, which provide the foundation for developing the junior officer’s professional and officership skills. The fundamentals of management, emphasizing decision making, the use of analytic aids in planning, organizing, and controlling in a changing environment are included. Organizational and personal values (ethics), management of change, organizational power, politics, and managerial strategy and tactics are discussed within the context of the military organization. These courses must be taken with appropriate leadership laboratories.