Organizational Leadership
In addition to foundation and core courses, students intending to concentrate in organizational leadership should complete the following course work:
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Credits: 3
Category: MBA elective/Organizational leadership concentration (required)
Pre-requisites: None
Offered: 1 NetPlus! section in Winter, irregular traditional sections
Instructional Format: Traditional and NetPlus!
Description: Applied research and discussion of recent developments and trends that affect organizational behavior and human resource management; exploration of how to affect organization-wide change.
Electives – choose two courses from:
Credits: 3
Category: MBA elective/Organizational leadership concentration (required)
Pre-requisites: MGT 541
Offered: 1 NetPlus! section in Summer, irregular traditional sections
Instructional Format: Traditional and NetPlus!
Description: Effective use of human resources within an organization; behavioral forces which affect decision making and leadership behavior. Personnel policies and procedures, employment training, merit rating, wage administration, labor relations, cross-cultural differences in people and organizations, and international personnel problems.
Credits: 3
Category: MBA elective/Organizational leadership concentration (elective)
Pre-requisites: None
Offered: 1 NetPlus! section in Winter, 1 NetPlus! section in Summer, irregular traditional sections
Instructional Format: Traditional and NetPlus!
Description: Qualities and requirements of both entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship; management of entrepreneurial efforts and innovations. Case studies, discussions and lecture. Students develop own plans for a new endeavor.
Credits: 3
Category: MBA Elective/Organizational Leadership concentration (elective) *
Pre-requisites: MGT 571
Offered: Irregularly
Instructional Format: Traditional and NetPlus!
Description: Topics include total quality management concepts, management issues related to quality improvement, Baldridge Award criteria, TQM implementation issues and strategies, and international standards. Statistical tools for quality improvement such as statistical process control, problem-solving methods, quality engineering (Taguchi methods), re-engineering and quality function deployment will also be discussed with emphasis on applications.
