Master of Arts in Organizational Management

Today's business world is rapidly changing. A graduate degree is a necessity for upper management employment and career advancement.

Your accredited Master of Arts in Organizational Management will provide you with an understanding of the culture and behavior of organizations.

The Master of Arts in Organizational Management is designed for those professionals interested in an advanced educational degree and who want to develop or intensify their management and leadership skills. Strategic techniques and the important role that human resources managers play are featured. The program provides an in-depth study of the elements, structure, culture and behavior in organizations.

The curriculum emphasizes how to efficaciously manage teams, systems and leadership for both the human and technical sides of organizations.

A Baccalaureate Degree in Business, Management, or related fields.
Thirty-six (36) semester hours, 12 courses, beyond the Bachelor's Degree.
DSC 680 Managerial Decision Processes is required and the final course.
No thesis required
Cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better.

Upon completion of this program, you should be able to:

Analyze management and leadership and explain its influence on personal and organizational effectiveness.
Evaluate the concepts and analytical tools of strategic management, decision making and ethics.
Analyze and evaluate the diverse issues and challenges of management and human relations management.
Evaluate, analyze and apply techniques of marketing, management, organizational management and leadership.
Analyze, explain and apply systems of financial management in decision processes.

Course Requirements
MKT-630	Marketing Management	3	[+ More Info]
	This course focuses on business level marketing strategy and utilizes four key dimensions to broaden the understanding of marketing management including customer satisfaction and market strategies planning. Students will have the opportunity to analyze markets and the marketing environment as well as develop marketing strategies. Communication value managing and social responsibility are also addressed.
ORG-637	Organizational Behavior Management	3	[+ More Info]
	This course provides future managers and current managers with information about people and their behavior within the context of the business environment. Provides students up-to-date information on current trends in business and issues affecting businesses today. Some areas of focus are: employee support policies, reward systems, procedural justice, high-performance teams, and goal framing effects. It also highlights the global nature of today's business world. [Book Required]
HR-638	Issues in Human Relations	3	[+ More Info]
	This course offers students a comprehensive treatment of human relations in the workplace. Major issues in human relations are thoroughly defined. Students will gain understanding of what it takes to become a successful employee and manager. Focus is on quality, teamwork, diversity, productivity, ethics. The need to balance demands of family and work are addressed. Recent issues that impact business are included.
ORG-645	Organizational Theory and Design	3	[+ More Info]
	This course presents comprehensive, current learning information of theoretical advances in organizational theory: restructuring and downsizing, reengineering, and network structure. The student is provided in-depth coverage of advanced information technologies and their effects on organizational design. Additional areas of interest are: managing of innovation and change, culture and ethics, decision-making and organizational learning, and organization conflict. [Book Required]
MGT-651	Management and Leadership	3	[+ More Info]
	This course presents comprehensive information of major theories and research on leadership and managerial effectiveness in formal organizations. It also provides advice and practical suggestions for business leaders to improve leadership skills. [Book Required]
FIN-655	Financial Management	3	[+ More Info]
	This course presents practical information for corporate financial management. It defines objectives of financial decision-making and the tactics and strategies for achieving them. A global perspective is presented. An excellent course for managers and professionals facing executive challenges of financial analysis and reasoning. [Book Required]
HRM-657	Human Resources Strategic Issues	3	[+ More Info]
	This course provides information on strategic issues that challenge human resource managers. This course enlarges on the basic knowledge students will have already learned and integrates new challenges for the human resource personnel. [Book Required]
MGT-659	Management The 21st Century	3	[+ More Info]
	This course combines management and organizational behavior. It presents an effective integration of theory and application and offers students a more accurate reflection of the responsibilities faced by today's managers. It introduces a new management paradigm and builds managerial competencies by focusing on knowledge areas: planning and monitoring systems; organizing tasks, people and culture; and leading and empowering people. It focuses students' attention on the changing world of management and how managing in the future may be different than managing today. [Book Required]
MGT-661	Supervision of a Diverse Workforce and Teams	3	[+ More Info]
	This course provides outstanding information on supervision techniques as it explores principles of management, planning, staffing, organizing, leading and controlling people and operations. There is a strong emphasis on application to real on-the-job situations. It integrates teamwork, quality and ethical themes. [Book Required]
HRM-663	Effective Human Resource Management	3	[+ More Info]
	This course provides students with the technical background needed to become a successful human resource professional, to effectively manage human resources and explains the importance of being a knowledgeable consumer of human resource services and products. The course emphasizes how managers can effectively acquire, develop, compensate and manage the internal and external environment that relates to the management of human resources. [Book Required]
MGT-672	Strategic Management	3	[+ More Info]
	This course focuses on skill building in all the major areas of strategy formulation. The course offers three themes: global factors, information technology, and preserving the natural environment. [Book Required]
DSC-680	Managerial Decision Processes	3	[+ More Info]
	The primary focus of this course is on strategic decision-making made by middle and upper levels of management, particularly in a multi-disciplinary context. The curriculum provides a collection of theories that apply to both public and private enterprise. Strategic decisions made by top management including determinants for successful strategic choices are examined. [Book Required]
OM-682	Special Topics in Organizational Management	3	[+ More Info]
	Subject to faculty approval. A project or independent paper that will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a specific subject. [Book Required]

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