Mansfield University Home PageORL 5501 Organizational Leadership: Theory and Practice
This first course in Organizational Leadership will examine key concepts, issues and practices that contribute to effective leadership in a variety of organizations both nationally and internationally. Through a focus on self-reflection and awareness, participants in the course will examine their leadership styles, strengths and challenges and receive useful practical suggestions for improving leadership skills.
ORL 5510 Organizational Behavior and Change
This course focuses upon managing for the future and preparing people for a continuous organizational learning pattern leading to innovation and change. It approaches change from understanding organizational behavior through structural, strategic, political and cultural lenses.
ORL 5520 Organizatioal Planning and Administration
This focuses on the crucial roles of leaders operating organizations of every size and different types of industry in various settings. Organizational administration includes understanding how to assess the practices of an organization, lead others in strategic planning and decision making and understanding the basics of budgeting and finance, developing a business plan, grant writing and facilitating an environment to empower employees.
ORL 5530 Governance and Community Relations
This leadership course examines organizational governance, the relationships between organizations and their stakeholder communities and strategies for building and improving those relationships. Emphases is placed on governance relationsips, understanding community context and building improved outreach and marketing efforts.
ORL 5540 Leadership Ethics and Legal/Regulatory Environment
This courses focuses upon ethical leadership practices in business and government. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach using elements of law, political economy, international business, ethics, and social responsibility. Businesses have social as well as economic responsibilities to society and both business and government have important interactive roles in the developing global economy. Ethics and integrity are essential to the process of developing and monitoring business practices that will assist positive growth in the global economy.
ORL 5550 Research, Program Assessment and Evaluation
This course introduces the skills, attitudes and methods to analyze services offered to both public and private organizations in a wide range of fields. In addition, basic research methodology is covered to illustrate the importance of a scientific approach to business research and problem-solving projects. Students will learn to formulate a problem, choose research methods, clearly articulate the past research and then collect, analyze and present new data with new interpretations and conclusions.
ORL 5590 Organizational Leadership Internship
This is an applied experience in the community with focus on the type of organization the student wants to better understand. Student's can practice leadership skills in their chosen setting, while being supervised and mentored by a site supervisor. There will be an assigned site supervisor/mentor related to the student's desired learning outcomes. Two hundred forty (240) on-site hours with one hour of supervision per week is required for this course.
ORL 5595 Leadership Capstone Seminar
The Leadership Capstone course is designed as a summative evaluation experience for students in the masters program. A major project or portfolio will be developed with guidance by the faculty mentor. The purpose of the project and leadership portfolio is to showcase students' leadership skills.
COM 5545 Effective Communications
Leadership is inherently communicated and in order to lead one must be able to communicate effectively to and with followers. This proposed course will explore modes of communication and leadership and the strengths and weaknesses of those models. Students will examine issues facing leaders such as diversity, the communication of organizational values, response to change, presenting oneself effectively and other concerns. Students will be expected to articulate a perspective of their leadership style and the appropriateness of that style to their work environment.
Sample Electives
ORL 5571 Leadership in a Global Society
This course focuses upon understanding the nature of communicating and negotiating in diverse cultures across the globe. Examination of one's one ethnocentric viewpoint will be emphasized through experiential activities. Understanding others' cultural values, learning to communicate in diverse populations and becoming aware of global etiquette will also be emphasized in this course.
ORL 5572 Entrepreneurial Leadership
Entrepreneurial leadership encompasses an understanding of how to analyze the calculated risks necessary to launch into a new venture. This course covers the process of starting and operating a new business, through assembling resources, examining the risks and potential benefits of moving forward, examining the market, developing a business plan and recruiting the right team of people. At each stage, participants will examine how these processes must be viewed through analysis of individual, group and societal contexts.