M.A. in Organizational Leadership

The Master's in Organizational Leadership (MAOL) – Global Business Leadership & Communication will help you develop key leadership and strategic communication skills. It focuses on ethics, motivation, strategic planning, and on developing solutions for real-world issues through research.

The Master's in Organizational Leadership (MAOL) – Healthcare Management will prepare you for a successful health administration career. You'll gain expertise in healthcare law, best practices and how to manage change – all from a Christian worldview.

The Master's in Organizational Leadership (MAOL) – Human Resource Management program will introduce you to evidence-based strategies that ensure high performance from your organization and staff. Be equipped to deliver practical solutions to organizational challenges.

The Master's in Organizational Leadership (MAOL) — Interdisciplinary Studies program allows you to self-design your course lineup from a broad spectrum of subject areas—all taught from a Christian perspective. It will help you master key organizational leadership elements such as vision, motivation and strategic planning.

The Master's in Organizational Leadership (MAOL) – Leadership Coaching & Mentoring will enable you to be positioned as a results-driven trainer, coach or consultant in a variety of career fields. Taught from a biblical worldview, it will equip you to be effective in the leadership coaching process.

The Master's in Organizational Leadership (MAOL) – Not-for-Profit Management fuses business best practices with the daily complexities of a nonprofit. Taught from a Christian perspective, this program gives you the leadership skills and spiritual wisdom to help your organization make a meaningful difference.

The Master's in Organizational Leadership (MAOL) – Organizational Development Consulting focuses on the role of leadership in developing and guiding strategic change. You'll explore consulting challenges and tools to effectively audit, assess and implement changes required for organizational development.

The Master's in Organizational Leadership (MAOL) – Servant Leadership program focuses on how servant leadership works in the contemporary world. Develop ethical decision-making and leadership skills that transcend career fields from ministry and not-for-profit to healthcare, government, business and beyond.

The Master's in Organizational Leadership (MAOL) – Small Business Technology Management program will equip you to guide your organization in the effective use of technological developments, tools and analysis for informed organizational planning. Explore leadership elements from a Christian perspective and develop solutions for real-world issues through research.

The Master's in Organizational Leadership (MAOL) – Social Entrepreneurship program explores how relevant, entrepreneurial business models can prepare you to advance as a social entrepreneur, leader in social-purpose organizations, philanthropist or director of volunteers in the social sector. You will examine biblical perspectives of servant leadership and the advantages of service-focused business structures.

An understanding of leadership from the wisdom literature from the evolution of leadership/management thought from 1900 to the present. Leadership as a contingent/context-specific application and organizational problems that have leader- follower interaction as a cause.

Provides an understanding of organizational structure and organizational life-cycle development. Students learn the role of the leader as an organizational architect. The course examines the role of the Organizational Development (OD) specialist and how leaders intervene in their own organizations, as well as how consultants intervene in other organizations.

Qualitative and quantitative research methods and data analysis that leaders and consultants use in organizations with particular attention to interview and observation.

Explores the psychological contract between leader and follower that takes any of many forms between two people or between the leader and small groups. Students study group formation and group development, as well as the intricacies of coaching, mentoring, and discipling. Students study organizational behavior and explore how OB concepts affect leadership effectiveness.

Examines organizational communication, including dyadic, small group, formal and informal communication, as well as the relationship of communication to organizational satisfaction and effectiveness. In addition, students study how communication defers in leader-member exchange and mass-communication of charismatic leader/large group interaction.

Compares and contrasts strategic thinking with strategic planning and presents the value of both. Students study the leader’s role in organizational change – creating and preventing change, as well as determining the organization’s readiness for change. In addition, students explore the reasons for resistance to change and strategies for coping with resistance.

Technology as the study of tools and methods and explores how leaders help followers interact with tools and methods to accomplish the organization’s objectives. This includes job design, human-computer interaction, understanding how new technology should cause current tools and methods to change, and how to help followers through the adoption and diffusion of the innovation process.

Synthesizes the knowledge and skills learned throughout this program. This experience may be, but is not limited to, a guided project, (i.e., designing a new organization, analyzing an existing major organizational problem and recommending solutions or developing and testing a seminar), a master’s thesis or a publishable manuscript. Prerequisite: permission of instructor.