Organizational Leadership

Master of Science Degree

Discover your power to build collective leadership through effective practices and purposeful mentoring as you solidify your problem-solving skills. Within the Master of Science in organizational leadership you'll study six areas of expertise that are imperative for success in leadership roles: Organizational Leadership, Social Psychology of Leadership, Leadership Ethics, Strategic Leadership, Advanced Leadership Dynamics, and Creativity and Innovation.

Through this program, you will:

Use leadership theory and research as a lens to analyze power, processes, and culture in organizations.
Discern how attributions, social perception, attitudes, personality, and social behavior impact organizational leadership.
Analyze the effects of individual and organizational variables on team processes and leadership effectiveness.
Demonstrate ethical leadership by practicing moral awareness, moral behavior, and socialized power.

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Courses in the major include:

MOL 645 Foundations of Organizational Leadership

In this course, students explore the field of leadership by examining the history of leadership studies and leadership research methods. Contemporary leadership theories of change, transformation, service, mentoring, and leadership development will be examined. Students will also consider how individual differences, power, influence tactics, and diversity impact leadership emergence, effectiveness, and organizational practices.

MOL 646 Organizational Leadership Applied Project

You can customize the outcome of this course to your career goals and aspirations, based on one or more elements of MOL 645. Possible outcomes for this course include creating and writing a white paper, grant, training manual, conference presentation, or designing a custom project for your organization as agreed upon with the professor.

MOL 647 Social Psychology of Leadership

In this course, students examine several major social-psychological theories and experiments that have informed the study of leadership. Classic experiments on obedience, conformity, social influence, and impression management will be critiqued to analyze how situations influence leader and follower behavior. Students will also learn how perception, attitudes, conflict, culture, and social behavior affect leader-follower interactions, and training, in functional and dysfunctional groups.

MOL 648 Social Psychology of Leadership Applied Project

You can customize the outcome of this course to your career goals and aspirations, based on one or more elements of MOL 647. Possible outcomes for this course include creating and writing a white paper, grant, training manual, conference presentation, designing a custom project for your organization, as agreed upon with the professor.

MOL 649 Leadership Ethics

In this course, students explore the ethical foundations of leadership and examine how ethics predicts long-term leadership effectiveness. This exploration includes a focus on the moral character of leaders and how character affects ethical behavior, especially in times of change. Key research topics such as personal character, organizational culture, moral engagement, ethical decision-making, and crisis management will be presented.

MOL 650 Leadership Ethics Applied Project

You can customize the outcome of this course to your career goals and aspirations, based on one or more elements of MOL 649. Possible outcomes for this course include creating and writing a white paper, grant, training manual, conference presentation, designing a custom project for your organization, as agreed upon with the professor.

MOL 651 Strategic Leadership

In this course, students will discover how leaders affect organizational missions, goals, and objectives. Students will also consider the roles leaders play in inspiring, empowering, planning, and communicating strategic initiatives. Key approaches to external monitoring, competitive strategy, strategic performance evaluation, and change will be applied to real life organizations.

MOL 652 Strategic Leadership Applied Project

You can customize the outcome of this course to your career goals and aspirations, based on one or more elements of MOL 651. Possible outcomes for this course include creating and writing a white paper, grant, training manual, conference presentation, designing a custom project for your organization, as agreed upon with the professor.

MOL 653 Advanced Leadership Dynamics

In this course, students learn about leadership research, frameworks, and models used to help organizations evaluate leadership effectiveness, address leadership challenges, and promote leadership development for improved leadership dynamics. Critical leadership studies will be used as the foundation to critique power relationships and mentoring practices to understand how leadership development is resisted or accepted in organizations.

MOL 654 Advanced Leadership Dynamics Applied Project

You can customize the outcome of this course to your career goals and aspirations, based on one or more elements of MOL 653. Possible outcomes for this course include creating and writing a white paper, grant, training manual, conference presentation, designing a custom project for your organization, as agreed upon with the professor.

MOL 655 Leadership Creativity and Innovation

In this course, students learn how leaders can facilitate creativity, innovation, and effectiveness in groups and organizations. The course presents a dialog of disciplines by exploring leadership through the humanities to uncover the hidden traditions of art, history, music, and literature in in modern business. Additional topics include critical theory, discursive approaches to leadership, and leadership aesthetics.

MOL 656 Leadership Creativity and Innovation Applied Project

You can customize the outcome of this course to your career goals and aspirations, based on one or more elements of MOL 655. Possible outcomes for this course include creating and writing a white paper, grant, training manual, conference presentation, designing a custom project for your organization, as agreed upon with the professor.

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Your SHRM or HRCI® certification is valued at 6 credit hours (2 courses) toward the Master of Science in Human Resource Strategic Management.

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Tracy Zamora graduated from Bellevue University through her employer's partnership with Bellevue University. Now, she directly applies the knowledge and skills she earned from her BS in Behavioral Science to her role. Her colleagues notice and she's their go-to for advice.

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