Organizational Leadership, Ed.D.

Program Learning Outcome 01

Examine the strategic role of the leader in identifying, recruiting, and selecting, and onboarding new employees; mentoring, coaching, and developing employees during the career process; respecting the principles of adult learning and stage development; using systems theory and effective organizational performance approaches in the context of talent and leadership development; and other aspects of the human resource and talent engagement and management process.

Program Learning Outcome 02

Examine the underlying assumptions of a dynamic organizational culture to build their own capability to understand, interact with, and respond to different societal and cultures across the world.

Program Learning Outcome 03

Assess the environment in which today's leaders will lead and build competency in a world of accelerating change and adaptation, technological transparency, increasing complexity, diverse cultures, and global interdependence.

Program Learning Outcome 04

Develop an understanding of the impact of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in leadership as it pertains to self, team, organization, and societal perspectives. Develop criteria for determining and analyzing exemplary ethical behaviors for an organization and its core values, mission, and culture as it pertains to DEI. Communicate and apply the ethical criteria for an organization through the analysis of a case study of an organization faced with an ethical or legal dilemma centered around a DEI issue. Collaborate with fellow learners/leaders to provide perspectives on the complexity of ethical practices for an organization as it pertains to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Program Learning Outcome 05

Review and analyze current leadership research emphasizing leadership development practices, as well as the mindset of leadership, to maximize their personal leadership styles, knowledge, understanding, skills, ethics, adaptive thinking, and application.

Program Learning Outcome 06

Explore organizational concepts related to leadership and design a forward-thinking organization aligning all components, including vision, mission, strategy, structure, dynamics, adaptability, entrepreneurship, and sustainability.

Program Learning Outcome 07

Assess oneself by reflecting on one's own experiences concerning leadership, communication, and stakeholder engagement/management. Investigate the opportunities and challenges leaders face in a changing, complex environment, focusing on aspects of leading global and diverse workforces and cultures and engaging stakeholders. Understand challenges related to employee engagement and empowerment.

Program Learning Outcome 08

Examine and apply the different communication skills, competencies, system thinking, and approaches necessary to be an effective leader and for continued growth and learning in the organization.

Program Learning Outcome 09

In the context of a research study, understand how to develop a problem of practice; connect theoretical framework; develop conceptual framework; develop research questions; construct a literature review; design aspects of research methods; collect, analyze, and report data/findings; construct and report implications including those concerning theoretical, practice, and leadership; suggest future research.

Program Learning Outcome 10

Investigate the concepts of ethical behavior, integrity, program quality, and assessment that can be applied to organizations and encourage participants to engage in and become familiar with issues related to the assessment of quality performance in an organization. Investigate the concepts of program quality and assessment that can be applied to organizations and encourage participants to engage in and become familiar with issues related to the assessment of quality performance in an organization.

Program Learning Outcome 11

Assess themselves and question their own thinking and the basis for their own assumptions, beliefs, and behaviors in the context of leadership identity, development, growth, mindset, self-awareness, skills, capacity, and practices, including openness to hearing differing perspectives and views.