Global Leadership, Ph.D.

The purpose of the Ph.D. in Global Leadership is to prepare scholar leaders for leadership roles in complex organizations in for-profit and not-for-profit sectors and higher education. These scholar leaders will understand their responsibilities and their roles as leaders in conserving, expanding, and transforming these organizations and in advancing the discipline of leadership and practice in the global society.

For the Ph.D. program, global leadership encompasses understanding the global environment with its complexity; situational and environmental challenges and opportunities; the interaction between environment, culture, social, political and economic trends; the organizational environment in its totality; and leading with a global mindset in the 21st century.

Professional Development Needs in the Public and Private Sectors

Students entering into this course of study do so to meet several different professional needs:

• Advanced training and skills in research, organizational leadership or academic leadership culminating in the terminal degree. The skills provide the foundation for discovering new knowledge in leadership fields and to apply that knowledge to the corporate, non-profit organizations or higher education.
• A terminal degree to gain advancement or change in careers.
• A terminal degree to further develop an executive leadership role in for-profit, non-profit, public, private, corporate or professional organizations.

Program Outcomes

Students will demonstrate the ability to:

• Critically analyze theories in the multidisciplinary area of the global leadership studies.
• Contribute to creation of empirical knowledge and theory development in the area of global leadership by applying advance research skills necessary to conduct original qualitative and quantitative research.
• Demonstrate a holistic understanding of global leadership by considering both global leaders and global followers and their interaction with and within complex global systems.
• Demonstrate an understanding of unique approaches and skills in conducting international research in areas of global leadership studies.
• Demonstrate advanced critical thinking skills apparent through both written and oral communication.
• Successfully apply multidisciplinary theories to address global leadership challenges across diverse sectors, and design action plans to advance organizational success.
• Demonstrate responsibility, accountability, ethical consciousness, and adherence to legal, professional and educational standards of global leadership.