12 courses with the subject DOL, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
DOL 711Introduction to Executive Leadership and Innovation3
This course is designed to introduce students to multiple facets of leadership from an interdisciplinary perspective. The course provides students with an orientation to the program and the expectations and requirements for doctoral-level study. Students will learn about library research, concept development, and academic writing skills throughout this course while defining executive leadership, organizational development and innovation concepts. Students will be exposed to doctoral-level research and various processes for developing research topics, conceptual frameworks, research ideas, and problem statements relevant to professional practice in their field. Through the introduction to readings, literature reviews, discussions, and reflections, candidates will develop the necessary skills to guide the development of their course experiences through the dissertation. Fall
This course will provide a theoretical understanding of leadership and group dynamics designed to generate personal insights into one’s own patterns of response to social forces, as well as to develop practical skills for exercising authority and leadership within groups and organizations. The course examines leadership theory from a historical and philosophical context as well as modern views of leadership in a global context. Students will explore major social, political, and cultural influences of leadership theory and the impact of those influences on the practice of leadership. Candidates will analyze the various leadership theories in relation to their applicability to emerging needs of organizations in the 21st century. Fall
DOL 713Innovation Theory and Practice in a Global Economy3
In this course students will examine several theories of innovation including diffusion of innovation, disruptive innovation and other practices used by leaders and organizations. For an organization to grow and evolve, you must develop a company culture that promotes risk taking, collaboration, change and speed. In this course, students will learn how to implement processes and strategies to build and reinforce these values. Through research and case studies students will identify the role of leaders in shaping innovation and how managerial competencies affect the innovativeness of their organization. Students will also consider a multitude of organizational issues including business and technology strategy, structures, changing culture, incentives, processes, human resource competencies and executive team characteristics that are associated with successful strategic innovation. Spring.
In this course, students will examine theories and applications associated with organizational development and structures within a global community with specific focus on improving organizational effectiveness. Students will examine structures within their own organizations, compare and contrast those structures to other global organizations of similar size. Students will apply theory and best practices to organizational development as they build their own theories that influence organizational effectiveness and success. Topics include managing the challenges of planned and unplanned change, the role of the organization development practitioner; processes associated with organizational change, organizational transformation and an exploration of the trends and future of organizations. Spring.
This course is designed for students to examine the global political economy through perspectives, problems, and policies at the federal, state and international level. Policies are formulated and enacted at many levels, but policy decisions made at an organizational level are circumscribed by those made at higher levels (state, federal and international policies). Through a review of the literature and analysis of the historical laws, regulations and policies, students will form a plan to operate in a global environment. The course will also explore the principles and the interconnectedness of policy, law, and ethics and their implications for executive leadership. Policy development and implementation, federal, state and international laws, and issues of ethics will be addressed in a broad spectrum of leadership styles and organizational settings. The course will provide executive leaders with the requisite knowledge, skills, and dispositions to remain current with issues of policy, law, and ethics while equipping them with the knowledge to positively impact the lives of the personnel and organizations within their spheres of influence. Summer.
DOL 803Ethics Values and Decision Making for Executive Leaders3
In this course students will examine the ethical principles and leadership theories for making strategic executive decisions. Leaders are critical to foster a positive environment to maximize others’ potential through exceptional self-awareness, emotional intelligence, understanding of group dynamics, effective communications, building trust, and a foundation for implementing effective organizational strategies. Students will explore ethical principles for practical application within diverse working environments. Through research and practice students will enhance their ability to practice ethical leadership and infuse ethical principles and theories in management, planning, design, evaluation, research, and policy development across a variety of organizational and community settings. Fall.
This course is designed to provide students with the concepts and tools needed to read, understand, interpret, analyze, and evaluate quantitative literature in the field of organizational leadership and innovation. Students will then apply various quantitative techniques to problems and research questions. Students will identify the appropriate quantitative technique and research design for a given problem or research question; organize data in the appropriate forms used by statistical analysis software; design and execute the appropriate statistical analysis; and interpret the findings. Fall.
The course will acquaint students with qualitative methodology and design. Students will be introduced to the philosophical underpinnings of qualitative inquiry, with a focus on anthropological and sociological antecedents of such inquiry. Students will identify the appropriate uses of phenomenological, narrative, ethnographic, grounded theory and case study approaches to qualitative inquiry are discussed. Methodologies for data collection and coding of data and qualitative research tools for this analysis will be introduced to develop competency in the analysis and interpretation of qualitative data findings. Spring.
DOL 806Digital Transformation of Business and Society in a Global World3
This course examines a generation of transformational change leaders in the world’s largest and oldest companies as well as in rising upstarts. Using case studies and systems design thinking, students will redefine the way they see organizations, resources, and people. Students will examine key factors that enable an organization to take advantage of the opportunities that emerging technologies provide and to stay competitive as these technologies evolve. In today’s digital landscape, traditional, co-located work teams are a thing of the past. Instead, leading companies are bringing together groups of geographically-distributed individuals using new technologies, that allow them to connect with talent and subject experts all over the world. Students will also be introduced to the latest research and trends that make teams successful, and ways that organizations can utilize technology to form effective companies in a digital world. Summer.
The leadership and innovation practicum is designed to give the student an opportunity to practice the skills and competencies they have learned in the program with their organization. The practicum will further the student’s understanding of organizational development, behavior, leadership, and innovation. Students must choose a topic area that relates to the program and approved by the professor. The student will apply their knowledge to a specific area of their organization in coordination with their human resources department and/or leadership to practice the role of executive leadership, strategic development, innovation, and diversity and inclusion or other related topics. An agreement between the student’s organization and the student must be submitted to the faculty member of this course outlining the experience the student will be involved with at their organization. The minimum number of hours to be applied to this practicum will be 40 hours over a 6-week period. At the conclusion of the practicum, the student will produce a reflection document of their experience and what they accomplished and learned during the practicum. If the student is not able to secure an agreement with their organization the professor will work with the student to develop comparable experience to meet this requirement. Fall, Spring, or Summer.
In this course students will learn how to decipher the complexities of corporate financial management to improve executive decision- making. Students will learn the language of finance to build stronger strategies, expand their influence, and make better business decisions for their organization. Specifically students will learn how to evaluate investment opportunities, understand mergers and acquisitions, develop insights into how shareholder or public value is created, and the role executives play in setting realistic performance goals and compensation incentives. This course will examine corporate and institutional finance from both internal and external, for-profit and nonprofit perspectives providing a solid grounding in the fundamentals of finance. The goal of the course is to provide executive leaders with the confidence to lead in capital markets and drive to new levels of profitability for globally competitive organizations and institutions. Fall.
This course provides a hands-on approach to identify and apply the elements of the environment, politics and change, organizational control, culture and the psychological dimensions that shape innovative strategies in any organization. Students will use coursework from the Organizational Development and Innovation Theory and Practices courses to optimize the effectiveness and efficiency of organizations in meeting changing stakeholder expectations and global competitive pressures. Students will focus on how leaders can link theory and research with actual practice. Spring.
