Master of Business Administration: Organizational Leadership
Master of Business Administration: Organizational Leadership
Organizational Leadership Concentration in Rowan's MBA
Join one of the most flexible and customizable MBA programs in the country to hone your skills in specific targeted areas of business – or explore building knowledge across sectors – to expand your insights and set yourself apart from the competition.
MBA Curriculum Requirements and Options
All Rowan MBA students pursue the same 18 credits of to satisfy core requirements of the 36-credit curriculum. Rowan MBA students also enjoy the freedom of customizing 18 credits to meet career pursuits. The flexible, customized 18 credits are pursued via six 3-credit courses: two areas of concentration or one area of concentration and three elective courses.
Rowan MBA students can choose two related Concentrations to build significant depth, two distinct Concentrations to build breadth, or even choose one concentration and three elective courses across disciplines to gain a wide view from varying perspectives.
Organizational Leadership Concentration Coursework
- Explore theories and strategies such as working with other leaders in a multinational world, influencing and empowering teams with diverse backgrounds, changing organization culture, ethics in leadership, and how to achieve high-quality results in a leadership position.
Rowan MBA students select 3 courses, or 9 credits, from the below courses to satisfy pursuit of an Organizational Leadership Concentration:
MGT 06502 - Global Leadership and Organizational Culture
MGT 06502 - Global Leadership and Organizational Culture (3 credits)
- The course is designed for graduate business students. Course content will cover the theories of business leadership and the focus of this course will be on leadership from a variety of perspectives--organizational leadership in the external environment, as well as leadership at the top, middle and lower levels inside organizations. Students will focus on the theory and implementation of various business leadership tasks and responsibilities including working with other leaders in a multinational world, supervising workers with diverse backgrounds. These business skills will include establishing workplace goals, organizing work units for productivity, conducting interviews, giving feedback to subordinate employees, designing and implementing employee motivation programs, changing organization culture, the capacity to lead globally, leading work teams and managing workforce diversity. By the end of the course, students will be able to effectively diagnose the complex dynamics of leadership in business environments and take action as leaders and to improve individual and organization performance.
MGT 06251 - Leadership Theory and Practice
MGT 06251 - Leadership Theory and Practice (3 credits)
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Course content will cover the theories of leadership and practice. The focus of this course will be on a leadership influence on organizational concepts and practices from a variety of perspectives in the external environment, as well as leadership at the top, middle, and lower levels inside organizations. Students will be able to perform analysis of the dark side of leadership, destructive patterns of leadership behavior, and multiple intelligences. Furthermore, students will be able to understand the psychology of leadership, including the role of personality, employee motivation, and dealing with difficult people, importance of ethics, empowerment of employees, managing diversity in the work culture, the theory of creating a powerful vision, helping employees through change and burnout prevention, leadership in negotiation and alliances, leading and developing teams, and understanding professional performance and sustaining discipline. By the end of the course, students will be able to effectively diagnose the complex dynamics of leadership, provide execution for organizational success, use effective theory, alignment, prioritization, in organizational environments and take action as leaders to improve individual, organization performance, and profitability.
MGT 06555 - Personal Leadership
MGT 06555 - Personal Leadership (3 credits)
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The emphasis of this new course will be on developing core leadership principles and their application in a leadership context. Particular emphasis will be on the conceptualization of personal leadership development, developing personal strategies and planning, developing personal leadership theory, developing personal leadership decision making process, developing personal motivation, developing personal empowerment, developing personal leadership change process, developing personal leadership coaching, developing personal leadership governance and implementation, and effectively and efficiently lead organizations or industry.
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