LEAD 220 -
Statistical Analysis and Decision Making
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Encountering statistics is inescapable in a world of ubiquitous information and rapid change. The ability to analyze, interpret, and apply statistical information is included among the critical skills necessary for strategic leaders to make informed decisions. As such, the course provides a relevant context for introducing students to statistical concepts including descriptive statistics, probability, inferential statistics, correlation, and regression. Ample discussion and practice will supplement comprehensive lecture material. |
LEAD 240 -
Leadership Foundations
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course provides students with an introduction to the program by highlighting the mission, goals, and objective of Eastern University as well as those of the School of Management Studies. In addition, various diagnostic test will be give in the areas of writing mechanics, learning styles, professional strength and personality attributes. Information from the tests will be used to provide guidance to the student in the best strategies for successful completion of the course work within the program. |
LEAD 261 -
Secondary Research and Writing
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
The analysis, synthesis, and evaluation of information from secondary and primary sources is discussed and practiced. A special emphasis is placed on locating information using Warner Memorial Library electronic databases; reading strategically; writing for academic audiences; and documenting source material in American Psychological Association (APA) format. |
LEAD 310 -
Leadership Formation and Development
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Students will reflect on and evaluate individual leadership style, values, beliefs and areas for leadership development in the context of the Christian faith. Study of leadership theories will include particular examination of ethical, spiritual, authentic, and servant leadership approaches along with discussion of implications for organizational practice. |
LEAD 320 -
Research in Organizations
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
The scientific method of exploring and understanding phenomena is examined in the context of organizational studies. Examples of published research will be analyzed, interpreted, and evaluated to acquaint students with contemporary and traditional methods of investigating organizational phenomena. Important philosophical assumptions associated with quantitative and qualitative approaches to research will be considered along with the role of diagnostic inquiry in organizations. |
LEAD 340 -
Managing Ethics in Organizations
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Fundamental issues involved in relating personal ethical values to the complex moral dilemmas faced by leaders re introduced. Beginning with a consideration of the relationship between values and worldviews, the course proceeds to examine different modes of ethical analysis and to explore problems associated with ethical relativism, professional ethics, conflicts of interest, and social responsibility.` |
LEAD 350 -
Organizational Theory
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
The theoretical foundations of organizations are introduced and examined. special emphasis will be placed on understanding organizations as complex open systems that interact strategically with multiple stakeholders. Students apply concepts and principles to cases that illustrate the structural, cultural, and technological aspects of organizations. |
LEAD 360 -
Essentials of Project Management
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
The project life cycle, planning and control processes, and people management aspects of project management are presented. Students develop foundational knowledge and skill in managing projects while balancing constraints involving project scope, quality, schedule, budget, resources, and risk. |
LEAD 370 -
Cross Cultural Studies
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course is designed to expand student awareness of and appreciation for individuals from other parts of the world. Through the use of case studies, internet research and experiential learning, students will be challenged by new ideas and information that will engender the cross cultural skills needed for a globally aware citizenry. |
LEAD 410 -
Behavioral Dynamics in Organizations
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Socio-psychological aspects of organizations are examined relative to overall work performance, decision-making, conflict resolution, teaming learning, innovation and change. Group tasks are supplemented with opportunities for individual and interpersonal reflection as consideration is given to issues related to work-life balance and the role of personal faith in the workplace. |
LEAD 440 -
Strategic Change
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
The role of strategy in organizational decision-making, development, and change is examined. A distinction will be drawn between strategies and tactics as the formulation, implementation, and continual evaluation of strategy in organizations will be emphasized. Special attention will be placed on the concept of strategic thinking as students assess and develop personal competency in this area. |
LEAD 450 -
Leading Change
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course is geared towards developing a better understanding of the challenges, techniques, burdens, and successes associated with initiating and implementing major changes within organizations. Therefore, the objective of the course is to prepare leaders to meet the challenges of organizational changes. |
LEAD 485 -
Change Analysis Project Capstone
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Students will apply knowledge and skills developed in previous courses to authentic cases involving opportunities for planned change. Systematic and systemic analysis of an organization's current state and desired state will be conducted as students work collaboratively to initiate and sustain momentum toward a strategic change initiative. Final project deliverables include a comprehensive proposal and presentation to key stakeholders. |
LEAD 536 -
Practical Financial Management
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This introductory financial management course will help the non-financial manager of a nonprofit organization understand and value the crucial contribution of finance and accounting tools in making effective decisions to carry out the mission and goals of their organization (specifically the faith-based NGO). This course assumes that the student works for an agency that employs professionals to handle the accounting, but it also assumes that the students need to understand the professional tasks and challenges facing the accounting staff. |
LEAD 540 -
Leadership and Empowerment
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
The module starts from the premise that more effective leadership is needed within the church and its agencies worldwide. Leadership styles will be examined with servant leadership exemplified by Jesus Christ as the central organizing paradigm for this module. Primary outcomes for each participant will be (1) a thorough understanding of servanthood in theological and historical context; (2) a personal assessment and appropriation of the foundational principles of servanthood, and (3) a comprehensive application to your present or proposed ministry. |
LEAD 541 -
Human Resource and Performance Management
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Starts from the premise that people are at the center of God's heart and are the most valuable resource in any ministry or enterprise. The purpose of the module is to explore the human factors in your organization and develop experience and skill in responding to the needs of those people. This module will cover areas of culture, diversity, conflict resolution, communication, training, mentoring, staff care, preparation for the unexpected and caring for yourself as leader. |
LEAD 565 -
Organizational Behavior
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course examines the socio-psychological aspects of organizational management. Students will gain an understanding of the effect of individual and group behaviors on organizational performance and learn key leadership and management techniques to harness these dynamics for organizational success. |
LEAD 576 -
Applied Research and Evaluation
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course is an introduction to applied research and evaluation. The learning objectives are to expose students to both quantitative and qualitative research and evaluation methods for use in nonprofit and Non-Government Organizations. Applied research is presented as a systematic inquiry designed to provide information to decision makers and/or groups concerned with particular human and societal problems. Christian perspective on the purpose and practice of research is of special interest. |
LEAD 604 -
Organizational Behavior and Development
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Gain an understanding of how group, individual, and relational behaviors within organizations shape the structure, efficiency, and development of that organization and learn strategies about how to respond to these organizational behaviors as a leader. Utilizing the lens of social sciences, this analysis of organizations equips students to understand and respond to an organization's dynamics so they can bring guiding vision and leadership into their role. |
LEAD 610 -
Strategic Thinking and Change Management
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Examines the basic concepts of strategic management and the increasing challenge for general managers to be strategic thinkers. Alternative aproaches to creating strategies are reviewed and critiqued. A capacity for interpreting the internal and external environments is emphasized, with particlual emphasis on teh turbulent, evloving context of NGOs, NGO stakeholders, culture an pressures from donor publics are examined, along with the demands for transparency, sustainability, adn the need for capacity building. Basic principles and tools for strategic planning are introduced and applications for the NGO are woven into the course design. An emphasis is made on analyzing and critiquing various approaches to strategic planning, using case studies and critical thinking. An introduction to the complexity of introducing new strategies and how managers can be more effective in managing change is given. |
LEAD 614 -
The Art of Decision Making
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
An exploration of decision-making models that enables students to learn when and how to apply them in contexts such as personnel management, finance, and marketing. Additionally, students are equipped with both the hard and soft skills required for effective leadership in varying organizational environments. |
LEAD 624 -
Leadership Theory
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
A survey of major leadership theories and styles and how they manifest themselves in practice and outcome. Based on the techniques, methodologies, and frameworks studied, students reflect on their own leadership and build their own personal leadership style throughout the course. |
LEAD 634 -
Managing Diversity and Conflict
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Cultivate the skills and traits necessary to effectively lead diverse teams and organizations, mitigate and manage workplace conflict, and create cultures of inclusion. Students gain understanding about social identity theory and its relation to leadership, the benefits of a diverse workplace, implicit bias, the legal aspects of workplace diversity, and conflict resolution styles, equipping them to work and lead more effectively in the contemporary work environment. |
LEAD 710 - Historical and Cultural Perspectives of Organizational Leadership
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
In this course students examine the history of leadership theory and research to understand the pattern and future direction of leadership studies. Students will also explore the nature and character of leadership. The key questions are: What is leadership? What are the different aspects of leadership? How has that understanding remained the same or changed throughout the global history? How does context affect the nature of leadership? What are the moral purposes of leadership? This course utilizes an interdisciplinary approach in its survey of leadership issues, incorporating historical, literary, political, scientific, sociological, and cultural perspectives. |
LEAD 840 -
Leadership, Justice and Servanthood
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Meaningful responses to human suffering are grounded in discernment regarding human conflict; harm and oppression; power and the abuse of power; and the rights, responsibilities, and opportunities - personal, communal, and global - that arise from the crucible of potential that is our humanity. Using different theories of justice, students will look at what it means to be leaders who champion just systems and practices in their own organization, industry sector, and profession. This course asks students to address such questions as: What does it mean to lead justly, to advocate for justice? How can one choose servant leadership, restorative justice, and forgiveness in the face of systemic oppression, suffering, and grave human atrocities? What does it mean to be a person of restorative justice and forgiveness? In Leadership, Justice, and Servanthood, students engage in reading, reflection, research, and discussion that inform their practice as leaders and leadership scholars who advocate for justice and who model servant leadership. |
BUSA 517 -
Nonprofit Financial Management and Control
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Designed to give the nonprofit manager/executive the skills and knowledge necessary to understand financial statements and information, to make financial decisions, to design and institute improvements in management control, to determine and work with ethical uncertainties, and to develop and manage the budgeting process. Fund accounting will be explained as a building block for nonprofit financial reporting. Issues faced by the chief executive of smaller organizations such as unemployment compensation, workers compensation, and self-insurance will be covered. The course will primarily use the case-study method. (Prerequisites: ACCT 223, FIN 223) |
BUSA 531 -
Marketing and Public Relations for Nonprofit Organizations
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course focuses on marketing and its concomitant relationship to fundraising, making the services of the nonprofit organization known to its intended constituency, making the purpose or mission know to the greater community, and how to use both paid and free media as tools in these endeavors. It is designed to introduce current and future leaders of non-profit organizations to various means of acquiring resources through the process of marketing and its linkage to philanthropy and fundraising. Familiarity will be gained with such marketing concepts as the exchange relationship, fundamentals of buyer motivation, consumer theory, market segmentation, asking, messaging, branding, and the marketing mix and its components. This course provides tools and guidelines on how to prepare marketing plans and proposals. |
BUSA 541 -
Human Resources Management of Nonprofit Organizations
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Human Resource Management for Nonprofit Organizations provides an understanding of how various management concepts can be applied to both paid and volunteer staff, and the hands-on activities involved in managing human resource departments with an emphasis on motivation, leadership, conflict resolution, and change management. The functional activities include recruitment and selection, compensation and benefits, and performance. It will integrate human resource issues (for both regular and volunteer staff) within the strategic and operational planning of the organization, ensuring the congruence of human resource systems within the non-profit organization. |
BUSA 603 -
Fundraising for Nonprofit
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Investigation of how to design, implement, and follow up on various methods of fundraising, including foundation proposals, phonathons/telethons, direct solicitation, membership drives, and profit-making ventures in nonprofit organizations. |
BUSA 655 -
Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Public Policy
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course prepares non-profit leaders to understand the role of civil society and how the charitable sector is a critical element within it. The course provides a historical and cultural understanding of the emergence of civil society from a foundation of human helping. The course shows how the non-profit sector actively engages and challenges government and public leaders through policy interventions and advocacy to advance the local and global struggle for human rights. Students are prepared to advocate for social justice by developing the foundational skills necessary to assess and intervene in the policy process as well as develop and implement advocacy campaigns to influence policy. The course further emphasizes the importance of developing a biblical basis for social justice advocacy and the need for Christian professionals to cultivate strong advocacy skills. |
BUSA 750 -
Strategic Management of Nonprofit Organizations
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
Guided by the unique purpose of the non-profit sector, this course will develop students' ability to manage organizational resources and practices strategically. Strategic management entails monitoring the effectiveness of the organization to ensure that is is healthy and aligned with its mission and strategic goals. This helps ensure that effective and efficient execution of these goals is taking place. The course will review strategic organizational issues that assist the executive leadership to align activities with goals, thus enhancing the organization's long-term sustainability and impact. |
BUSA 760 -
Advocacy and Public Policy
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
As governments make public policies that have significant impacts on human relationships of all types, those who desire God's justice and peace for the world make understanding and influencing policy a priority. Thus, this course prepares leaders to analyze public policy and assess and deploy appropriate strategies to engage the public and governments at all levels. First, students will evaluate historic models of public engagement to assess the roles and strategies of groups engaged in civil society. Students will also become familiar with the range of government policy instruments and strategies used in various national and political contexts. Second, coursework will emphasize developing critical analyses of the broad range of conceptual and strategic approaches to advocacy and utilizing and evaluating policy analysis tools. Students will compare critical policy needs in various countries and appraise the policy analysis tools and advocacy strategies surveyed. In order to approach advocacy from a uniquely Christian perspective, participants will examine the Christian witness to the state (at all levels) and evaluate the role followers of Jesus have in walking with the oppressed to seek justice for them. Case studies from a variety of Christian and secular organizations will highlight the various approaches used to influence policy and levels at which advocacy can occur. |
BUSA 770 -
Advancement, Fundraising and Philanthropy for the Nonprofit
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course will examine the timeless subject of philanthropy, beginningwith its Judeo-Christian roots, tracing its development through history, and culminating with research findings in contemporary philanthropy. Historical analysis of the role of money and giving in society will be balanced with a view of modern philanthropic developments. Challenges to voluntarism and philanthropy will also merit our attention. The aim of our study, debate, interaction, and reflection will be to engage the hearts, minds and souls of those on whom our institutions depend-the philanthropists-in order to find a commonality of vision that extends shared wishes and dreams. The domains, structure, and competencies of the modern development office will be explored and practiced. |
BUSA 880 -
Collaborative Leaders and Partners
Credit-Bearing
Graduate |
This course will cover the development of a philosophy of partnership and collaboration for the organization tying it to the concepts of servant leadership and organizational stewardship. Practical implications will be the conceptual and practical questions in the design, implementation and ongoing management of partnerships both with the internal stake holders and external organizations. Collaborative competencies and models of partnership between nonprofits and government, nonprofits and the church, and nonprofits and nonprofits will be examined. |
