Organizational Leadership, B.S.

This degree is only available in the College of Professional Studies.

The organizational leadership program provides students with the leadership competencies needed for supervisory and middle management success in a variety of job families and functions. To fully develop the leadership skills of students, the program focuses on four key competency areas: operations and administrative competencies; human relations and interpersonal competencies; decision-making and critical thinking competencies; and communication competencies. To facilitate development of these competencies, courses marked with a carat (^) must be taken in sequence as part of a Tracked Educational Adult Module (TEAM).

Core Student Learning Outcomes

1. Communications and Leadership Skills: Students will be able to give and exchange information within meaningful context and with appropriate delivery and interpersonal skills.
2. Strategic and Critical Thinking Skills: Students will be able to link data, knowledge, and insight together to provide quality advice for strategic decision-making.
3. Focus on the Customer, Client and Market: Students will be able to anticipate and meet the changing needs of clients, employers, customers and markets better than competitors.
4. Interpretation of Converging Information: Students will be able to interpret and provide a broader context using financial and non-financial information.
5. Technological Aptitude: Students will be able to utilize and leverage technology in ways that add value to clients, customers and employers. Students will be able to use information technology as a tool to do essential business tasks.
6. Ethics: Students will be able to apply effective ethical decision-making. Students will be able to apply business-related legal and ethical principles in business and apply them to organizational decision-making.

Student Learning Outcomes

1. General Business Knowledge - Students will demonstrate core foundational knowledge in the field of business.
2. Communication and Leadership Skills - Students will be able to give and exchange information within meaningful context and with appropriate delivery and interpersonal skills.
3. Strategic and Critical Thinking Skills - Students will be able to link data, knowledge, and insight together to provide quality advice for decision-making.
4. Focus on the Customer, Client and Market - Students will be able to anticipate and meet the changing needs of clients, employers, customers, and markets better than competitors.
5. Interpretation of Converging Information - Students will be able to interpret and provide a broader context using financial and non-financial information.
6. Technologically Adept - Students will be able to utilize and leverage technology in ways that add value to clients, customers, and employers. Students will be able to use information technology as a tool to do essential business tasks.
7. Ethics - Students will be able to apply effective ethical decision making. Students will be able to apply business-related legal and ethical principles in business and apply them to organizational decision-making.

The organizational leadership program provides students with the leadership competencies needed for middle management success in a variety of job families and functions. To fully develop the leadership skills of students, the program focuses on four key competency areas: operations and administrative competencies; human relations and interpersonal competencies; decision-making and critical thinking competencies; and communication competencies. The organizational leadership degree uses the TEAM approach described on the College of Professional Studies . Courses marked with an asterisk (*) require TEAM enrollment.