• Read more about MSLS 520 Leadership Capstone Experience

Students prepare and execute a project demonstrating in a real-world context the techniques learned within the program through leadership crisis management. The capstone course introduces tools and a framework to guide the leader, organization and protect the core assets of the business through a crisis. Topics include but are not limited to exploration of crisis communication techniques, research-based methods to assist in preparing, prevention of and recovery from crises. Students are equipped with a range of tools to increase competencies and confidence in an organizational crisis context. 000402 MSM Single Course 12 1.00 Leadership Master's Degree Program Advanced Career Professional No No 0004022 0

• Read more about MSMT 502 Foundations of Management

The GS 502 includes nine (9) online learning modules designed to equip students for success in the MS in Management program. The modules are (1) Foundations of Communication, (2) Foundations of Business Integration & Strategic Management, (3) Foundations of Organizational Behavior, (4) Foundations of Human Resource Management (5) Foundations of Finance, (6) Foundations of Marketing, (7) Foundations of Statistics, (8) Foundations of Ethics and (9) Foundations of Academic Writing. The online 2 Foundations course is largely self-paced. An instructor provides assistance as needed. Students complete a pre-test for each module to assess their strengths and weaknesses. Brightspace then produces a customized learning module appropriate for their individual needs. Students use the module to master key concepts and skills. They then demonstrate mastery through post-tests. Students may repeat each post-test an unlimited number of times during the 5-week session to earn a passing grade. Students must pass every assigned module in the Foundation courses with a score of 70% in order to proceed to later courses in the master’s program. 000391 MSM Single Course 13 1.00 Leadership Master's Degree Program Advanced Career Professional No No 0003911 0

• Read more about MSLS 516 Management by Leadership

This course focuses on the importance of leading organizational change and building positive engaging strategies using organizational development (OD) interventions. Students acquire effective approaches for leading change, evidence-informed research for positive change and coping mechanisms for the increasing pace of change. Students reinforce OD concepts and organizational change skills through the analysis of case studies as change agents or consultants for nonprofit and for-profit businesses. 000158 MSM Single Course 8 1.00 Leadership Master's Degree Program Advanced Career Professional No No 0001582 0

• Read more about MSLS 512 Ethics In Leadership

This course covers four areas: ethical awareness, ethical analysis/ethical decision making, current ethical issues in business, and ethical management in an organization. This course provides the skills required to make reasoned responses to ethical dilemmas, deal with daily and long-term ethical challenges, and build an ethical culture in an organization. The course explores the emotional influence on behavior and decisions, and it explains how to learn from success and failure. In this highly participative course, the leadership candidate is expected to complete both the reading material and written assignments before each session. 000157 MSM Single Course 4 1.00 Leadership Master's Degree Program Advanced Career Professional No No 0001572 0

• Read more about MSLS 519 Decision Making Leadership Skills

The ability to gather and analyze data to form a strategy is essential in management. This course examines two levels of analytics from a descriptive and predictive viewpoint. Using spreadsheets, visualizations and research, students develop a working knowledge of analytics as it applies to business decisions within the field of management. Topics include database analytics, data visualization, forecasting techniques and data mining. 000156 MSM Single Course 11 1.00 Leadership Master's Degree Program Advanced Career Professional No No 0001562 0

• Read more about MSLS 518 Leading Strategy Development

This course approaches strategic management from a practical perspective. Students develop an understanding of business strategies, formulation and implementation of major goals to better identify organizational initiatives. Real world examples communicate important stages, components and major roles of exceptional managers to gain and sustain a competitive advantage. 000155 MSM Single Course 10 1.00 Leadership Master's Degree Program Advanced Career Professional No No 0001552 0

• Read more about MSLS 513 Law, Compliance, Benefits,and Social Responsibility

Increasingly, leadership of business organizations is intertwined with local, national and international legal and ethical frameworks that define, regulate and support the business enterprise. The effective, successful business leader must understand the basic components and operations of those frameworks as well as the basic policy assumptions that emanate from that legal framework and influence business decisions. Those policies affect what products are produced, how they are priced, marketed and distributed, as well as who works for the enterprise and how the workplace and its work processes are configured. The extent to which a leader effectively manages or mismanages the human resources of the company will determine the company’s success, and therefore the leader’s own success. This course investigates the basic legal and socio-ethical framework within which companies operate today. 000154 MSM Single Course 5 1.00 Leadership Master's Degree Program Advanced Career Professional No No 0001542 0

• Read more about MSLS 511 Dynamic Organizational Leadership

This course is designed to help leaders understand and influence human behavior on an individual, interpersonal, and institutional level. The foundation is a knowledge of individual differences and how those unique characteristics affect each person’s thoughts, actions, and motivations. However, it is not enough to simply understand people on their own, separate from others and their environment. Teams and groups have a powerful impact on their members and people behave differently around others than they do alone. Similarly, organizational structures, systems, and cultures have a strong, but seemingly invisible, effect on what people believe, what people say, and what people do. Effective leaders know how to analyze and manage all these complex factors in order to achieve the organization’s objectives. 000153 MSM Single Course 3 1.00 Leadership Master's Degree Program Advanced Career Professional No No 0001532 0

• Read more about MSLS 517 Classic and Contemporary Leadership Studies

This course examines a wide range of leadership research and theories using a practical perspective. Students apply and practice different approaches of leadership using case studies and questionnaires to gain knowledge and measure the individual’s leadership style. Students are then challenged from their prospective as the leader, to determine how the theory contribute or fail to contribute to the leadership process or organization. 000152 MSM Single Course 9 1.00 Leadership Master's Degree Program Advanced Career Professional No No 0001522 0

• Read more about MSLS 515 Personal and Interpersonal Leadership Skills

Teamwork is an essential element of effective leadership. However, it is rarely taught and frequently overlooked in both academic and professional training for leaders. This course Focuses on leading and managing teams, thereby creating teamwork throughout the Organization. There are several dysfunctions of a team to include absence of trust, fear of Conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability and inattention to results. Through Various exercises, students learn to plan, prepare, practice, review, analyze, assess, and Strategize for expected and unexpected events as a team. 000151 MSM Single Course 7 1.00 Leadership Master's Degree Program Advanced Career Professional No No 0001512 0