Mansfield University of Pennsylvania
Developing Tomorrow's Leaders
Organizational Leadership

M.A. Organizational Leadership

  Opportunities in the Organizational Leadership Program for FALL 2012!

The Masters of Arts in Organizational Leadership is still accepting applications for the Fall 2012 semester. Click Apply Online to start your application for acceptance into the Fall 2012 cohort. 

The Masters of Arts in Organizational Leadership at Mansfield University is an online program providing advanced knowledge in leadership across a wide spectrum of disciplines and organizational settings. This interdisciplinary program allows students to enhance their knowledge about leadership and the organizational environment, applying leadership skills in real-world settings. The program focuses on the theoretical foundations of leadership and develops practical skills for emerging leaders working in local, regional, national and international organizations. It creates an online leadership learning environment that promotes inclusion, respect, collaboration and a view of leadership development that embraces the values of the Mansfield University Creed: Character, Scholarship, Culture, and Service.

To meet the many leadership challenges in an ever-increasingly complex world, organizations need leaders and followers who can bridge traditional, professional, and disciplinary boundaries.  There is a need for leadership today that can forge new teams to achieve together what no single individual can accomplish without the input and support of others. And there's a need to build socially responsible foundations for critical lifelong leadership, which become more poignant as one's career develops over time. 

Everyone at all levels of organizational hierarchy require skill and knowledge in the dynamics of leadership. The Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership at Mansfield University of Pennsylvania is an online program for providing advanced knowledge and enhanced leadership skills across a wide spectrum of disciplines and organizational settings, such as education, health care, human resources, business enterprises, social services, sports, arts, and so forth. Graduates are expected to carry out informed commentary on organizational development issues and to respond effectively to a broad spectrum of leadership projects in a timely fashion.

Ours is a program that stresses the importance of human factors in all types of organizations both public and privately owned. Specifically, we advocate the interaction of human systems and social systems in three confluent domains: [1] of individuals within organizations, [2] between the individual and the organization, and [3] of how individuals, individually and collectively, affect the organization's structure and functioning.

This program is designed primarily for practicing professionals seeking advanced knowledge and lifelong learning in leadership. Rather than provide a curriculum focused on analyzing and predicting future trends, the MA in Organizational Leadership focuses on creating a vision of the future we want, and learning how to respond quickly and decisively to new challenges as they unfold. 

 
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