I am highly passionate about teaching and have taught over 20 classes at R1 business schools. My approach to teaching is built upon four pillars: critical thinking, experiential learning, psychological safety, and building resilience.
Below are courses I have recently taught.
Undergraduate Courses
University of Denver: Leading High Performance Organizations
Course Description: In this course, you will learn about the human factors that foster career success for you and high performance for your organization. You will learn the essentials of
organizational behavior and acquire a toolkit of evidence-based people skills that complement
the technical skills you gain in other business core courses. This course will take an experiential learning approach, making use of self-assessments, readings, case studies, video clips, experiential exercises, and group projects to keep the classroom an interactive learning atmosphere and to maximize your practical learning experience.
West Virginia University: Principles of Management
Course Description: This course serves as an introduction to the process of managing and working effectively with people. The primary objective of this course is to provide students with an overview of the basic principles involved in effective management practices, including general and specific elements of planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Emphasis is given to clarifying and sharpening management values, knowledge, and skills with special focus on decision-making, leadership, ethics, and negotiation.
Graduate-level Courses
West Virginia University, MSIRHR: Conflict Management Processes and Negotiation
Course Description: This course is designed to build students’ understanding, skill, and confidence so they can achieve better outcomes during the process of managing conflict at work. A basic premise of the course is that, while HR professionals will need analytical skills to discover optimal solutions to problems, they will also need a broad array of conflict management and bargaining skills to effectively implement these solutions. Course topics include conflict styles and personality, navigating challenging conversations, ethics and lying, handling conflict remotely, team-level conflict resolution, mediation, and unions/collective bargaining. Elective course in the MSIRHR program.
West Virginia University, PhD: Organizational Behavior (co-taught)
Course Description: This course provides a survey of the field of organizational behavior, primarily at the individual level of analysis. The emphasis is on exploring concepts, theory, and empirical research to develop foundational knowledge in several key topical areas. The readings and assignments in this course will cover four sections: First, we will define organizational behavior as an area of inquiry, including an extrapolation of human behavior. Second, we will read about important criterion (i.e., outcome) variables in the study of OB. Third, we will examine proximal predictors of these variables. Finally, we will study intermediate features that exert a contextual influence on behavior.
Lily Morse, PhD 