Location: Barcelona, Spain
Eligibility: The program is open to undergraduate students with a minimum 2.5 GPA
Course Credits: OBHR 330 Intro to Organizational Behavior (3 credits)
Estimated Cost: $5500-5800 (airfare and personal spending not included)
Housing: Students will stay in shared student apartments or student residence housing
Language Requirements: None
Host: Daniels School of Business
Contact: businessstudyabroad@purdue.edu for more information
Daniels School students may apply for school specific scholarships in addition to the Purdue Global Leaps Scholarship. For more information visit our Financial Planning and Scholarships page!
Ben Dunford
Intro to Organizational Behavior - OBHR 330
A contemporary workplace axiom is that an employee is "hired for her or his technical skills, fired for poor people skills, and promoted for leadership and management skills" (Russell & Yao, 1997). To that end, this class is designed to help students improve the array of "soft" people skills that play such a crucial role in professional development. We will explore topics such as leadership, team dynamics, conflict management, performance management, negotiation and problem solving. All of this will be done in the context of Irish culture immersion to provide students with a unique opportunity to prepare themselves for leadership positions in multinational corporations.
Our subject matter, physical location and small class size will facilitate the integration of Spanish culture and soft skill development. For example, we will visit historic sites in Barcelona which bring to life leadership lessons from the course. The intimate setting will facilitate interactive workshop style discussions, experiential exercises and self-assessments which cannot be done in large traditional undergraduate courses. In short, the class will be taught in the style of an executive coaching seminar, without work experience or prior Irish culture knowledge being pre-requisites.
Previous Year Itinerary: Summer 2024
