An Interdisciplinary Approach to Ethical Leadership
This course helps develop effective, transformational leaders who formulate sustainable, ethically sound solutions to practical management problems encountered in a complex global environment. You will learn how to work with multiple constituencies through an ethical lens that includes social responsibility, diversity, culture, and environment.
Strategic Talent Management in a Complex World
This interdisciplinary course teaches you the skills to lead decisively across all facets of an organization including employee recruitment, training and development, health and safety, labor relations, and change management. You’ll have the opportunity to integrate legal, management, and social science research with an action learning-based approach.
Data Driven Decision Making
This course provides a solid introduction to statistical theory and practice. You will learn how to research a current issue and interpret statistics in your chosen discipline and also explore how professionals from other disciplines utilize data to make decisions. Gain a deeper understanding of statistics, hypothesis testing, linear regression, and statistical testing with Microsoft Excel.
Business Communications
This course focuses on the development of clear written communication and oral presentation skills. You will examine a variety of techniques, formats, and processes for sharing organizational information, and explore the use of audiovisual and electronic media to enhance the quality of presentation and communication.
Employment Law
This course explores the way legislation directs and regulates the relationship between an employer and employee. In addition, this course will address legal issues in non-profits and entrepreneurial firms. Students will also learn how to investigate complaints properly, as well as engage in preventative measures for harassment and discrimination.
Employee Staffing and Development
Learn key principles and practices in staffing and employee development. Focus on the interdependence of effective organizational performance with proper staffing including recruiting, and proper assessment of personnel and employment training involved in human resource management.
Organizational Behavior
Take a closer look at organizations from a behavioral science perspective. In this course, you examine the interactive dynamics of groups, managerial and decision-making activities, and communication strategies. Topics include: organizational change, stress in the workplace, team conflict and negotiation, employee burnout, motivational leadership, and organizational performance for remote and non-remote employees.
Virtual Training and Development
Learn the principles of facilitating training programs in a virtual environment. We will address adult learning principles involved in the design of virtual training, strategies for engaging employees, the use of training methods for synchronous and asynchronous learning, and ways to assess the effectiveness of the training program.
Virtual Team Management
Learn best practices for managing virtual and global teams. We will address conflict management, performance issues, knowledge sharing, and data analytics for virtual teams. You’ll examine a variety of telecommunication networks and tools to establish connectivity as well as to provide organizational policies and procedures, email, and interactive meetings.
Human Resource Management, Diversity and Technology Capstone
This capstone course provides you with opportunities to define, analyze, and apply human resource theories and models to resolve complex organizational problems. You will apply the advanced theoretical and practical knowledge attained throughout your master’s program and demonstrate your understanding through analysis as well as the integration of communication and leadership skills.
