Organizational Leadership Concentration
With the complex problems and challenges of our ever changing world, the need for effective leadership is greater than ever before. The organizational leadership concentration provides you with an innovative curriculum focusing on the many facets of leadership in the context of modern organizations. This concentration provides students with the foundations of leadership theories and styles that are used effectively in business, healthcare, government and non-profit settings. Courses provide students with opportunities to explore and develop skills needed to navigate organizational change, influence the culture of corporations and carry out strategic planning efforts.
MBA 631 – Leading Organizational Change
This course addresses improving skills critical to increasing organizational effectiveness and responding to the rapid pace of change in today’s business environment. Students will explore fundamental areas necessary to leading effective individual, team and organizational change efforts. The focus is on uncovering the traps that create stress, waste resources, slow change efforts, or lead to outright failure, and discover how to lead, cope and win in the face of great change.
MBA 632 – Organizational Stewardship
One view of corporate leadership--call it the "mythical hero" model--assigns a slightly magical, "hands-off" role to top executives. Their principal contributions to the organization come from on high: nobly empowering the troops and charismatically rallying them around the vision. A more contemporary management style, however, which seeks to foster a grass-roots effort from below, requires the hands-on involvement of senior executives in order to succeed. Though diverse in its approach and arguments, the course maintains that top executives should expand their role beyond influencing how people interact--they must roll up their sleeves and get involved in the details of products, customers, and markets.
MBA 633 – Leading Entrepreneurial Organizations
Successful organizations emphasize learning as a means to sustain their competitive advantage. This course will focus on the study of entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. Areas of emphasis include uncovering the methodologies and characteristics that foster innovation and achieve meaningful change in business that lead to the creation and implementation of profitable business opportunities.
MBA 634 – Organizational Learning & Systems Thinking
After completion of this course you will have an understanding of the core competencies required for building learning organizations and you will have the experience of participating in a learning community. You will have an enhanced ability to think systematically, communicate more effectively and lead more effectively. You will be asked to clarify personal and professional visions and then use those personal visions to create a shared vision that can guide an organization on its path to becoming a learning organization.
