This course focuses on theories and styles of leadership and the ways in which outcomes are influenced through increased awareness of personal style and skills. Personal and professional ethics are analyzed, and ethical issues in organizations are explored.

Upon completion of the course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Evaluate personal leadership strengths and opportunities for leadership success.
2. Analyze the role of the leader in the context of organizational issues.
3. Analyze one’s learning and communication style as it applies to leadership in a technological world.
4. Distinguish emotional intelligence competencies that contribute to leadership success.
5. Analyze ethical principles that affect decision making.
6. Analyze ethical dilemmas within an organization.
7. Synthesize the individual, organizational, and systemic issues in ethical situations.
8. Construct a process for ethically responsible decision-making, and apply this model to ethical decision points.

This course focuses on exploring, analyzing, and evaluating information in order to think critically when creating management strategy.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Assess the foundational criteria, assumptions, and sources of beliefs and values.
2. Use creativity and innovation as an aspect of critical thinking for leadership practice.
3. Articulate the complexity inherent in controversial issues.
4. Analyze an issue from several points of view.
5. Create a research design and protocol for a research question.
6. Synthesize information from multiple sources in planning for change.
7. Engage constituents in using research to address organizational needs.
8. Apply ethical considerations in research.

This course focuses on collaboration skills in developing high performing teams. Personal power, conflict, and influence are examined. Teambuilding, coaching, and motivational techniques are also included.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Develop strategies for high performing teams.
2. Evaluate the role of influence and personal power in building relationships.
3. Analyze and apply appropriate conflict management approaches.
4. Evaluate collaboration skills for teambuilding.
5. Assess cultural situations in organizations.
6. Evaluate supportive communication and coaching techniques
7. Analyze an emotional competence framework, and apply it to teams.
8. Apply systems theory, team collaboration, and shared vision to organizations.
    

This course focuses on tools, techniques, and strategies for effective communication in organizational excellence. Presentation, negotiation, and advocacy are examined.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Evaluate how communication tools, channels, and techniques affect strategy.
2. Demonstrate interpersonal communication to manage relationships via technology.
3. Demonstrate effective and supportive listening skills in respectful engagement of others’ ideas, behaviors, and beliefs.
4. Demonstrate the use of narrative and storytelling as a communication strategy.
5. Demonstrate successful negotiating skills.
6. Match vocabulary and voice to audience needs.
7. Argue for and influence an audience on a critical topic.
8. Present material in a visually appealing manner.
    

This course focuses on global, economic, and political issues influencing today’s organizations. Contextual factors and trends in world economics and politics are examined.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Analyze the factors influencing the international political economy and the management of organizations.
2. Analyze the viewpoints identified in global politics.
3. Analyze the influence of organizational beliefs and policies on global economies.
4. Synthesize the cultural, economic, political, and social perspectives that impact organizations.
5. Evaluate global trends important for effective local management.
6. Articulate the challenges unique to organizations that operate globally.
    

This course focuses on the legal and ethical stewardship of an organization within a contextual environment. Increased awareness of social responsibility and global citizenship is addressed along with cultural influences that impact organizations.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Demonstrate appropriate cultural and contextual communication.
2. Evaluate components of and influences on organizational culture.
3. Evaluate strategies for an organizational culture of diversity and inclusion.
4. Respect viewpoints that differ from the view most dominant in cultures.
5. Evaluate the choices and decisions required for social responsibility.
6. Synthesize legal requirements with organizational ethical frameworks.
7. Analyze compliance issues and principles that affect an organizational operating internationally.

This course focuses on talent analysis of the whole organization while advancing development of its mission delivery. Performance management principles are examined.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Analyze organizational talent demands.
2. Assess an organization’s life cycle stage and plan for growth.
3. Evaluate talent management models to address organizational needs.
4. Evaluate recruitment and retention strategies for alignment with organizational values.
5. Distinguish between talent management and leadership development.
6. Synthesize intellectual capital issues related to talent management and knowledge management.
    

This course focuses on organizational change and the skills and strategies to address opportunities for positive impact on organizations and their missions. Systems thinking is examined.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Analyze and understand micro-organizational behavior and organizations as systems.
2. Compare managed and emergent change approaches.
3. Evaluate opportunities for planned and emergent change approaches.
4. Evaluate components of the continuous improvement and learning culture.
5. Identify obstacles to change and strategies to address them.
6. Distinguish between strategies for changing individuals and changing organizations.
7. Propose and evaluate goals and measures of success for change.

This course focuses on strategic thinking and creativity in organizational leadership. Innovation is examined as a process to develop the strengths of an organization as a whole system and to deliver positive results.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Evaluate the creative process.
2. Apply the principles of strategic management.
3. Evaluate the processes for developing a strategic plan.
4. Analyze the blocks and enhancement to developing creativity.
5. Synthesize creativity in an organization with its capacity to innovate, change, and develop.
6. Analyze trends in technology which influence company innovation and leadership.
7. Assemble thoughtful, innovative strategies with creative practices for organizational learning.

This course focuses on integrating the knowledge, skill, and experience from all management and leadership coursework through research, writing, and a proposal for creative change.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Integrate all coursework in order to analyze organizational functioning.
2. Delineate a facet of management for further exploration in the capstone paper.
3. Evaluate information and its sources critically.
4. Synthesize knowledge, skills, and experiences about management and leadership.
5. Evaluate peer presentations using a supportive communication style.