Instilling a roll-up-your-sleeves work ethic sought by today’s top employers, courses in the M.S. in Management, Strategy and Leadership will help you develop your personal influential style and gain the comprehensive leadership skills you need to help you move up in your career. The curriculum includes key components designed to help you lead an organization – from motivating individuals and mobilizing teams to making strategic decisions and implementing long-term plans.
The 20-month online degree program is comprised of 26 credits of required courses and 4 credits of electives, covering a wide range of topics, such as:
Management
- Ways to analyze current and future industry trends and their impact on your organization
- Best practices for recruiting, developing and retaining top talent
- Refined decision-making techniques utilizing frameworks and real business scenarios, broadening perspectives and enhancing capabilities for application to organizational situations
Strategy
- How to evaluate the market landscape and identify ways to positively impact your competitive position
- Evidence-based perspectives, models and concepts to analyze current organizational issues and how to improve them
- Anticipate, plan for and execute organizational change with proven strategy planning techniques
- Strategies to counter changes in industry life cycles and global business operations
- Differences in strategic and tactical planning
Leadership
- How training, succession planning and leadership development positively impact an organization
- Different types of behaviors (such as participative, transactional, ethical, transformational, directive and supportive) and how they impact effective leadership
- Differences between managing and leading, and how to develop, motivate, inspire and sustain effective teams to drive organizational success
- How charismatic leaders drive performance through emotional intelligence, visioning, confidence expression and communication
This program leverages the convenience of anytime, anywhere video-based lectures and an interactive online classroom environment, without sacrificing quality or content. No campus visits are required, ensuring students can pursue a prestigious credential from an internationally recognized research university without diminishing their professional commitments.
Required Courses
Students must complete 20 credits from the following courses:
- Analyzing Your Organization
2 credits
Analyze how your organization manages people, group processes and organizational design. You’ll have the opportunity to review various aspects of your organization’s processes related to the management of people and suggest a plan to improve process effectiveness related to motivation, diversity, leadership, group performance and culture.
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- Competitive and Business Strategy
2 credits
Learn concepts and methods that integrate previous training in functional areas of management. You will understand the total firm perspective and ways top managers create and sustain competitive advantage in today’s challenging global marketplace.
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- Creating an Ethical Organization
2 credits
Ethical awareness and sound judgment are essential for individual success and organizational effectiveness. In this course, we will examine the ethical aspects of individual and corporate decision making and provide practical resources for making ethical decisions within the business context.
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- Developing Managerial Skills
2 credits
Learn how to manage people, group processes and organizational design. Theories and research are applied to developing managerial skills in motivation and leadership with an understanding of diversity, organizational culture and structure.
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- Human Resource Management for General Managers
2 credits
Identify the human resource management functions all managers perform as you explore human resource activity design, administration and evaluation. You’ll also review needs assessment, program implementation and evaluation, information management and decision support, and international human resource management.
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- International Management
2 credits
This course is focused on gaining knowledge of how a multinational corporation competes successfully in the marketplace, with a particular emphasis on the MNC’s global strategy levers and organizational factors within the context of its industry globalization drivers.
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- Leadership and Team Management
2 credits
Develop your leadership and team development abilities through evidence-based management, readings and laboratory application.
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- Leading the Strategic Change Process
2 credits
Analyze and manage the change process in organizations. Learn about micro- and macro-organizational interventions.
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- Managing the Learning Organization
2 credits
Learn how to assess the knowledge, skills and abilities within an organization. This enables you to match future employee skill needs with appropriate learning strategies as well as link employee knowledge, skills and abilities with overall organizational strategies.
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- Negotiations
2 credits
This course will cover important topics regarding strategic negotiations, negotiation preparation, buyer-supplier relationship assessment, international negotiations and negotiation simulation.
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Electives
Complete 10 credits from the following courses. Students opting for a concentration must complete all four courses in that concentration.
Human Resource Management
- Fundamentals of Human Resource Staffing
2 credits
Scientific, legal and administrative issues in talent acquisition, placement and promotion.
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- Managing Diversity in the Workplace
2 credits
Explore how organizations can benefit from differences in ethnicity, age, tenure, education and more. You’ll also discover some of the challenges that may arise and learn techniques to manage conflict.
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- Talent Management and Development
2 credits
How do you manage human resources to realize an organization’s goals and mission? Learn strategies for employee recruitment and development, performance management, succession planning and retention, career management and leadership development.
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- Developing Reward and Compensation Systems
2 credits
Learn how to apply compensation principles to organizational objectives and strategically use compensation systems to attract, motivate and retain employees. You’ll also discover the managerial aspects of paying employees at all organizational levels.
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Strategic Management
- Strategic Control
2 credits
Design of strategic management control systems and use of managerial accounting data to support strategy implementation, performance monitoring, and change.
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- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
2 credits
Managing innovation and launching a new business.
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- Corporate Strategy
2 credits
Discover the management strategy behind multi-business firms, conglomerates, and business groups. Topics will focus on mergers and acquisitions, firm scope, strategic alliances, corporate governance and strategic leadership.
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- Strategic Decision Making
2 credits
Develop and refine your strategic decision-making skills as an individual and in working with a management team. Learn key decision-making concepts and processes necessary for developing and implementing long-term strategies that create a competitive advantage for your organization. Understand factors that impact individual and group decision-making processes as well as tools and techniques to improve strategic decision making. Learn how to avoid common decision-making errors and blunders that lead to failure in the competitive marketplace. This course is essential for executives leading the strategic decision-making processes as well as managers who participate in the process and want to impact the strategic direction of their organization.
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