Graduate Management

Our program offerings in Graduate Management provide general leadership and management skills that can be applied to any professional setting. Classes are offered in convenient, 7-week accelerated formats and taught by faculty who are experts in their fields. The coursework is valuable to professional development and strengthens skills that can be immediately applied on the job.

Spotlighted Graduate Management Courses

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See below for a selection of our most popular courses for working professionals:

Leadership and Organizational Behavior

This course takes the traditional Organizational Behavior topics such as motivation, communication, collaboration, change, culture, the nature of groups and systems dynamics, and views them from the perspective of leadership. As well as learning how to apply this knowledge to improve organizational effectiveness, students examine the effect their own leadership approach has on organizational change. Primary skills to be gained in this course include organizational analysis and problem solving through class experiential exercises and case discussions.

Organizational Development

Internal and external environmental forces driving organizational change face resisting forces that maintain the status quo. The leader's role as a collaborative change agent is examined and possible individual, group and organization-wide interventions are investigated. Concepts regarding the depth of change and culturally appropriate strategies for entry and change are evaluated. Students assess models of change and plan and execute data-gathering activities. Change scenarios and qualitative research activities are evaluated for use within an organization to begin preparing for the Capstone Seminar.

Leading Effective Teams

Developing high performance teams is critical in today's organizations. Supervisory and participative leadership will be compared to team leadership with emphasis on style, versatility, trust building, facilitation, empowerment, conflict management and negotiation. The theory of transforming teams into workplace communities will be explored as a possible outcome of inter-team collaboration.

Negotiation and Conflict Management

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) processes and procedures help parties to a business dispute participate in a nonadversarial, collaborative search for mutually beneficial outcomes. Students will review and critically examine significant ethical, public policy, and other considerations that affect an organization's use of ADR processes and their potential impact on its operations. An analytical framework and strategies to effectively examine and address several key considerations will be developed. Students will analyze the dynamics of communication and practice fundamental conflict resolution skills, including effective oral and written communication.

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