Master of Science in Management

Designed to help leaders understand and influence human behavior on an individual, interpersonal, and institutional level.

Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

• Gain a knowledge of individual differences and how those unique characteristics affect each person’s thoughts, actions, and motivations  
• Discern how it is not enough to simply understand people on their own, separate from others and their environment
• Examine how teams and groups have a powerful impact on their members, and people behave differently around others than they do alone. Similarly, organizational structures, systems, and cultures have a strong, but seemingly invisible, effect on what people believe, what people say, and what people do
• Determine how effective leaders know how to analyze and manage all these complex factors in order to achieve the organization’s objectives

Explores four topics: ethical awareness, ethical analysis/ethical decision-making, current ethical issues in the financial services industry, and ethical management in an organization.

Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

• Learn the skills required to make reasoned responses to ethical dilemmas, navigate daily and long-term ethical challenges, and build an ethical culture in an organization
• Explore the emotional influence on behavior and decisions
• Understand how you can learn from success and failure

Investigates the basic legal and socio-ethical framework within which companies operate today. The course enables students to place their developing leadership skills within the practical context of business law, compliance and ethics.

Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

• Understand ethical frameworks relating to business management and organizational effectiveness
• Examine corporate governance and stakeholder theory
• Explore government regulation of business, including constitutional law, product liability, and employer/employee relations
• Identify social issues impacting corporate strategy, such as consumer protections and internet law

Designed to help leaders communicate effectively by developing the credibility necessary to persuade and influence others.

Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

• Demonstrate competence in verbal communication in a variety of situations, such as individual conversations, small group meetings, and large presentations, both face-to-face and virtually
• Demonstrate competence in written communication using text, instant messaging, email, social media, letters, proposals, and formal reports
• Possess emotional intelligence, a willingness to listen, as well as the courage to tackle crises and difficult conversations

Focuses on leading and managing teams, thereby creating teamwork throughout the organization.

Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

• Understand dysfunctions within a team that include absence of trust, fear of conflict, lack of commitment, avoidance of accountability and inattention to results
• Demonstrate skills to plan, prepare, practice, review, analyze, assess, and strategize for expected and unexpected events as a team

Students prepare and execute a project demonstrating in a real-world context the techniques learned within the program through leadership crisis management.  

Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

• Evaluate tools and a framework to guide the leader, organization and protect the core assets of the business through a crisis
• Explore crisis communication techniques, research-based methods to assist in preparing, prevention of and recovery from crises 
• Develop a range of tools to increase competencies and confidence in an organizational crisis context

Examines a wide range of leadership research and theories using a practical perspective.

Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

• Apply and practice different approaches of leadership using case studies and questionnaires to gain knowledge and measure the individual’s leadership style
• Evaluate challenges from their prospective as the leader to determine how the theory contributes or fails to contribute to the leadership process or the organization

Approaches strategic management from a practical perspective.

Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

• Develop an understanding of business strategies along with formulation and implementation of major goals to better identify organizational initiatives
• Discuss real world examples to communicate important stages, components, and major roles of exceptional managers to gain and sustain a competitive advantage

Focusses on the ability to gather and analyze data to form a strategy is essential in management.

Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

• Examine two levels of analytics from a descriptive and predictive viewpoint
• Develop a working knowledge of analytics as it applies to business decisions within the field of management using spreadsheets, visualizations, and research
• Discuss database analytics, data visualization, forecasting techniques, and data mining

This capstone course introduces tools and a framework to guide the leader and organization to protect the core assets of the business through a crisis.

Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

• Prepare and execute a project demonstrating in a real-world context the techniques learned within the program through leadership crisis management
• Explore crisis communication techniques, research-based methods to assist in preparing for, prevention of, and recovery from crises
• Evaluate and apply a range of tools to increase competencies and confidence in the context of an organizational crisis

This class is required for applicants whose bachelor’s degree is not in business and without any business experience. This foundational course includes nine online learning modules designed to equip students for success in the MSM program.

Modules include: Foundations of Communication; Foundations of Business Integration & Strategic Management; Foundations of Organizational Behavior; Foundations of Human Resource Management; Foundations of Finance; Foundations of Marketing; Foundations of Statistics; Foundations of Ethics; and Foundations of Academic Writing.

Upon completion of this course, you'll be able to:

• Demonstrate mastery in topical key concepts and skills through post-tests 
  • Students may repeat each post-test an unlimited number of times during the 5-week session to earn a passing grade
  • Students must pass every assigned module in the Foundation courses with a score of 70% in order to proceed to later courses in the MSM program