Course Listing For Master of Science Organizational Performance Courses

This course is designed to equip both current and aspiring leaders with the essential skills to successfully spearhead organizational change initiatives. Learners will explore various change management theories and frameworks, with a strong emphasis on applying and evaluating these principles in real-world scenarios. Dual listed as MSOP 505/MMAL 505 Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Master of Science in Organizational Performance (MSOP) or in the Master of Science in Management and Leadership (MMAL) academic program or enrollment in the specialized Management and Organizational Leadership Certificate of Completion program.

This course offers a review of individual and collective behavior in organizations, emphasizing efficient people management practices. Structured across three levels—individual, interpersonal, and collective—the course covers decision-making, motivation, personality, relationships, and influence. Its objective is to familiarize students with these principles, foster a critical view of organizations, and offer practical guidance for their professional endeavors in current and future work environments. Dual listed as MSOP 517/MMAL 517 Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Master of Science in Organizational Performance (MSOP) or in the Master of Science in Management and Leadership (MMAL) academic program or enrollment in the specialized Management and Organizational Leadership Certificate of Completion program.

This course explores the role of business intelligence in managerial decision-making, covering data- and text-mining, warehousing, analytics, and visualization. It emphasizes skills for the effective communication of analytical insights and underscores the importance of a robust BI team for data-driven decisions at all organizational levels and lifecycle stages. The course systematically examines BI's application throughout the decision-making lifecycle, offering critical insights into a firm's health at each stage. Dual listed as MSOP 525/MMAL 525 Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Master of Science in Organizational Performance (MSOP) or in the Master of Science in Management and Leadership (MMAL) academic program or enrollment in the specialized Intelligence and Analytics Certificate of Completion program

This course familiarizes students with analysis of diverse data types and emphasizes interpretation and communication of results. Students will investigate an array of statistical models, determine their appropriateness, and develop the ability to effectively interpret, recommend, and communicate results. The goal is to develop the skills to assist organizations in goal achievement through information analysis and process improvement. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Master of Science in Organizational Performance (MSOP) academic program or enrollment in the specialized Intelligence and Analytics Certificate of Completion program.

In this course, students learn how to develop an effective performance management system that will maximize employee performance by aligning individual and group performance with organizational goals. Course topics include the history of and status on performance management, problem solving, communicating, linking organizational goals, risk and analytics.

Competencies in the areas of performance management, business coaching, mentoring, and training are addressed in this course. Further focus to assuring you know how to build knowledge, change, and talent management strategies within your business will be provided.

You can customize the outcome of this course to your career goals and aspirations, based on one or more elements of MSOP 603. Possible outcomes for this course include completing a custom project for your employer, conference presentation, training manual, grant, white paper, or a related professional development activity.

This course explores effective leadership amid organizational change, examining it at macro and micro levels. Learners will explore paradigms, theories, and practices for successful change leadership. The curriculum, spanning historical and contemporary contexts, emphasizes practical application and evaluation of change management theories. Tailored for current and future leaders, the course equips them with skills to navigate change, and to foster an understanding of its impact on organizations, teams, and individuals. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Master of Science in Organizational Performance (MSOP) academic program or enrollment in the specialized Organizational Change Management Certificate of Completion program.

In this course, students learn how to apply performance improvement interventions to improve output. Course topics include conducting and analyzing needs assessments, organizational design choices, selecting, implementing, and evaluating performance improvement interventions.

Best practices in learning how to help your organization succeed through creativity, imagination, and originality are covered in this course. Additional focus to developing your knowledge of how to eliminate inefficiencies, problem areas, and non-value added elements of the business will be provided.

You can customize the outcome of this course to your career goals and aspirations, based on one or more elements of MSOP 607. Possible outcomes for this course include completing a custom project for your employer, conference presentation, training manual, grant, white paper, or a related professional development activity.

In this course, students learn about coaching and mentoring in relation to helping each employee improve and maintain performance for maximum output. Students learn about the differences between coaching and mentoring and identify which is useful and appropriate when interacting with employees.

Developing a baseline of knowledge, skills, and abilities associated with managing projects is addressed in this course. Further focus to ensuring you know the roles and responsibilities of a project manager, as well as the stages of project management will be provided.

You can customize the outcome of this course to your career goals and aspirations, based on one or more elements of MSOP 611. Possible outcomes for this course include completing a custom project for your employer, conference presentation, training manual, grant, white paper, or a related professional development activity.

In this course, students learn the importance of innovation as a fundamental source with which organizations achieve competitive advantage. The focus of the course is learning how to systematically foster innovation within an organization.

Learning how to apply the knowledge areas of business process management is the focus of this course. Additional work in learning how to apply what-if analysis and long-term contingency planning will be provided.

You can customize the outcome of this course to your career goals and aspirations, based on one or more elements of MSOP 615. Possible outcomes for this course include creating and writing a white paper, grant, training manual, conference presentation, designing a custom project for your employer.

This course explores techniques for collecting information about the financial activities of an organization, enabling an understanding of their nature, capabilities, and intentions. Students will explore how organizational decisions are made based on financial intelligence and analysis. Additionally, it addresses scenarios where accounting information is integral to decision-making processes with priorities beyond accounting considerations. Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Master of Science in Organizational Performance (MSOP) academic program or enrollment in the specialized Organizational Change Management Certificate of Completion program.

In this course, students learn how to develop and promote cultures within their organizations that not only accept, but embrace change. Students also learn how to proactively drive development in order to enable their organizations to remain competitive and relevant in the global market.

Acquiring the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to help the organization achieve its goals through the analysis of information and improving processes is addressed in this course. Further focus toward how to accumulate different types of information and then use that information to predict future organizational events will be provided.

You can customize the outcome of this course to your career goals and aspirations, based on one or more elements of MSOP 619. Possible outcomes for this course include completing a custom project for your employer, conference presentation, training manual, grant, white paper, or a related professional development activity.

In this course, students learn how to stimulate organizational innovation by developing an environment that promotes and develops individual creativity. It provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to promote and develop employee creativity as part of an overall plan to stimulate organizational innovation.

How to combine the processes, technologies, systems, and capabilities of the business into useful and meaningful information is the focus of this course. Additional work in learning how to integrate key performance indicators into decision-making methodologies will be provided.

You can customize the outcome of this course to your career goals and aspirations, based on one or more elements of MSOP 624. Possible outcomes for this course include creating and writing a white paper, grant, training manual, conference presentation, designing a custom project for your employer.

This course equips students with established project management practices, understanding the project life cycle, and skills for effective initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, control, and closure. It covers key concepts such as change management and compliance and evaluating risk. The course explores project characteristics, timelines, roles, cost management, communication methods, and introduces essential Agile methodology elements. Students gain insights into project management tools and partner-centric documentation for collaborative efforts. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Master of Organizational Performance (MSOP) academic program or enrollment in the specialized Project Consulting Certificate of Completion program.

In this course, students learn how to apply advanced conceptual and theoretical perspectives to the design of organizations and the linkage mechanisms that organizations must develop to manage their environments. Students practice diagnosing and resolving organizational problems related to the growth, survival and decline of organizations. Research emphasis is placed on how size, structure, technology and organizational culture impacts operations, strategic contingencies and competitive advantage.

How to combine the processes, technologies, systems, and capabilities of the business into useful and meaningful information is the focus of this course. Additional work in learning how to integrate key performance indicators into decision-making methodologies will be provided.

You can customize the outcome of this course to your career goals and aspirations, based on one or more elements of MSOP 627. Possible outcomes for this course include creating and writing a white paper, grant, training manual, conference presentation, designing a custom project for your employer.

In this course, students learn different methods of managing talent to help build organizational cultures dedicated to value creation. Students will further study the concept of organizational talent as our top competitive advantage.

In this course, students learn how to apply ethical theory to modern ethical dilemmas. Students also learn how to utilize analytical decision-making tools within complex real-life situations.

In this course, students learn how to develop an understanding of how strategies are formulated and implemented within the organization. The integration of the functional areas of management and how to deal with the various trade-offs from the perspective of management are considered. Emphasis is placed on the role of strategy development in unifying the organization.

In this course, students perform the general art of collection, analysis and transformation of data into information for the purpose of decision making. Descriptive methods are introduced for graphical, tabular and numerical summarization of data.

Designed for potential consultants, this applications course investigates problem-solving and change agent principles. Consulting firms actively seek disciplinary diversity to address complex challenges. The curriculum focuses on developing management consulting skills, exploring best practices for organizational change from both internal and external consultants. It covers crucial consulting process elements like problem assessment, diagnosis, contract preparation, data collection, analysis, and recommendation formulation. Prerequisite: Enrollment in the Master of Organizational Performance (MSOP) academic program or enrollment in the specialized Project Consulting Certificate of Completion program.

In this course, students focus on organizational problem solving and entrepreneurial endeavors, with an eye toward preparing a final paper that students can use to demonstrate their managerial competencies.