Leadership
Program Overview
The Leadership program is designed to prepare students for the leadership challenges that are inherent in all sectors: business, military, government, education, and nonprofit. In so doing, the Leadership program embraces the call to bring social responsibility and environmental stewardship to the mission of organizations by embedding principles of sustainability into the core curriculum and by challenging students to explore the daunting task of creating learning organizations that simultaneously maximize employee well-being, social responsibility, and performance excellence—the triple bottom line.
The A&M-Central Texas Master of Science degree in Leadership is designed for busy adults who want to improve their knowledge, abilities, and skills in management. The 30-hour program focuses on one of the most challenging responsibilities for management today—leading change. Students gain the knowledge and skills that are applicable in business, the military, government organizations, and private not-for-profit organizations.
This program is suited for students who want:
- To deepen their understanding of how organizations function.
- To increase their academic credentials.
- To increase their understanding of how to design and implement change within an organization.
- To acquire the requisite 18 hours of graduate coursework needed to teach at the undergraduate level.
- To acquire the necessary knowledge and skills to help organizations through internal or external consulting.
Program Level Student Learning Outcomes
The student will be able to:
- Formulate theoretical and practically insightful leadership responses to problems and issues encountered in a dynamic and complex business environment.
- Recommend sustainable and socially responsible actions in relation to the complex array of stakeholders and systems within which organizations operate.
- Synthesize information regarding the impact of globalization to inform cross-cultural or multi-national decisions and practices.
Marketable Skills
- Leadership — Establish vision and value congruence in teams and organizations to implement organizational change and sustainable development initiatives in a dynamic and complex business environment
- Problem Solving — Address operations and service-related sustainability challenges by applying solution-based knowledge and tools for institutional change
- Organization Design — Build and communicate the case for sustainability, including opportunities and challenges, by conducting and implementing an organization design analysis for sustainable effectiveness
- Agility — Flexibly navigate the dynamic global context for sustainable development, utilizing critical knowledge, models, methods, and tools inherent in leadership for sustainability
- Cultural Intelligence — Lead diverse, cross-cultural teams through a common vision and effective interpersonal, problem solving, and communication skills
- Stakeholder Focus — Identify and address sustainable development issues within a complex internal and external stakeholder environment
- Ethical and Social Responsibility — Identify key issues and lead organizational initiatives that foster ethical and socially responsible practices for sustainable effectiveness
Program Information
“The graduate Leadership program at Texas A&M–Central Texas provides the knowledge and skill to lead in an ever-changing world. It’s an insightful journey that creates introspection into self and organizational life. A spiritual journey with people, planet and profit at the center.”
Student Organizations
- Soc. for Human Resource Management
- Collegiate Entrepreneurs’ Organization
- Warrior Accounting Society
- American Marketing Association
Program Contact
Dr. Jody Fry
Department: Management & Marketing
Professor of Management, Program Coordinator
Room: Founders Hall-217M
Program Accreditation
The College of Business Administration is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Schools that have earned AACSB business accreditation demonstrate an ongoing commitment to excellence in teaching, research, curriculum development, and learner success.
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