Master’s
Degree in Organizational Leadership - Curriculum
Learn How to Lead Change in the Real World
Gain
key
insights and learn how to effectively facilitate and manage change with the
Organizational Leadership degree online curriculum at Dayspring Christian
University.
The
Organizational Leadership master’s curriculum provides key knowledge and skills
for effectively facilitating and managing change in the real world. Courses are
designed to help you integrate what you learn in class with your professional
work. Faculty members are leaders in the field and collaborate with
professionals who are actively applying organizational leadership skills in the
workplace.
The
Organizational Leadership master’s curriculum is comprised of 36 credits and
can be taken online, at our qualified teaching centers, or both.
A Tailored Organizational Leadership Master’s
Curriculum
The
Organizational Leadership degree online curriculum includes six core
leadership courses, three leadership electives and three business electives,
enabling you to select courses in your areas of interest.
Required Courses
Total
Credits: 36 minimum to 46 standard
OL-500: Human Behavior in
Organizations
This course is a
study of individuals and groups and their interaction. Students examine
theories of motivation, communication, leadership, power and change with
practical relation to contemporary issues. They also study organizations for
key design variables and reward systems aimed at improved performance and
organizational efficiency through employee motivational programs, participative
management and cooperative decision making.
OL-600: Strategic Human Resource
Management
This course
emphasizes the strategic role of the human resource manager in performing
functions of recruitment, hiring, training, career development and other
contemporary processes within the organizational setting. It serves as an
introduction to the areas of compensation, collective bargaining, affirmative
action and other regulatory procedures and requirements as they relate to
contemporary applications in organizations.
OL-663: Leading Change
This course focuses
on transforming organizations by introducing Kotter's eight processes by which
leaders effect change. Because organizations, leaders, and employees differ,
various techniques and strategies are examined. The course integrates Kotter's
processes for leading change, organizational development and transformation
theory and practice, and analysis of an organization which has effected
systematic change. The use of work teams as a key change factor will have
special emphasis.
OL-670: Organizational Leadership
This course
combines theory and practice by encouraging students to learn traditional and
contemporary leadership theories and apply them to the analysis of the behavior
of business managers, entrepreneurs and other recognized individuals. This
course includes readings, cases, exercises and numerous examples of effective
leadership models. Areas covered include the societal evolution of leadership;
the leadership roles of strategy, vision and transformational change; the
development of leaders; the leadership responsibilities of creating effective
teams, organizations and cultures; the exploration of different leadership
styles; and current popular approaches to leadership theory.
Prerequisites:
OL-500 or HOS-550
OL-690: Responsible Corporate
Leadership
Students
investigate the nature of the environments in which business enterprises
conduct their operations in order to determine the actual and desirable levels
of attentiveness and responsiveness of business managers to the relationship
between the enterprise and society.
OL-750: Contemporary Issues
in Organizational Leadership
This is the
capstone course for the degree in organizational leadership. Students examine
contemporary issues challenging leaders of the postmodern organization. Using a
case-based approach, students will examine specific issues under the broader
themes of leadership, team- work, quality, change, organizational structure and
trustworthiness. Within the context of these themes, students will be exposed
to the latest trends that have begun and will continue to challenge organizational
leaders for the foreseeable future. Students develop environmental scanning
techniques that will assist them in the identification of potentially new areas
for opportunities as well as develop an understanding of some systems changes
already under way in the business environment.
Prerequisites:
OL-500 and OL-600
and OL-690 and OL-670
Elective Requirements
OL ELE - Students may select three (3)
Organizational Leadership electives
BUS ELE - Students may select three (3)
Business electives
Foundation Course(s)
For
those who do
not meet the minimum requirements, the following courses may be required:
MBA-501: Mathematics and Statistics
for Business
This is an applied
course, which will provide students with the mathematical knowledge and skills
that underlie many courses offered in the school of business. Students will
learn the fundamental concepts and methods of linear algebra, mathematical
functions, differential calculus and statistics and their applications to
business. They will also sharpen their quantitative, analytical and
problem-solving skills that are so important for success in the world of
business today.
MBA-502: Economics for Business
This course is
intended to provide the student with a concisely focused yet rigorous
introduction to both micro- and macroeconomic theory needed at the foundational
level of a graduate degree program. Some of the topics to be addressed include:
market behavior; demand theory and related elasticity concepts; production and
cost theory; managerial decision-making in perfectly competitive and
imperfectly competitive markets; GDP determination; unemployment and inflation;
and fiscal and monetary policy.
Prerequisites:
MBA-501
