BBA Organizational Leadership

Program Features
The BBA in Organizational Leadership focuses on the human behavior component of leadership.  It is designed for the student who wants to develop the personal and leadership skills necessary to succeed in today's changing job market.  If you are looking for a career leading, managing, and effectively working with people, this is an appropriate major.  Course materials emphasize theory, experiential learning, and practical application.  Major course topics include human behavior and psychology, team building, leadership, ethics, social responsibility, public policy, cultural diversity, and globalization.  Intuitive techniques and skills necessary to effectively lead and communicate with people are also integrated into the major course sequence.
Students demonstrate their success and competencies in each course in a variety of assessment methods including tests, analytical papers, discussions, and presentations.  Course capstone projects measure the student's ability to comprehend and synthesize course material.  Critical thinking skills are honed.
Core courses provide students with upper level course work designed to achieve competencies recognized by national experts as required for a bachelor's degree in business. No credit substitutions by transfer or prior learning are permitted.
 
Career Benefits
Effective leadership is in demand in every type of organization that engages people in productive work.  The degree in Organizational Leadership provides the basic and advanced skills needed to learn to become an effective leader.  The concepts learned in this program are adaptable to a variety of careers involving managing and leading people to accomplish the goals of an organization. The human skills taught in this program are universally applicable and make it a good choice for future career flexibility and to avoid skills obsolescence.   Advancing global competition and the increasing interdependence of fundamentally different cultures mean that students completing this program will be prepared with the important leadership skills needed to master challenging circumstances into the future.
 
BBA in Organizational Leadership Course Requirements
 
Major Courses    24 credits
No substitution.  All courses taken at Cleary University
LED 450 Group Dynamics and the Virtual Team
LED 460 Ethical Leadership
PLS 470 Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility
PSY 440 Personality and Behavior
 
Business Core Courses    48 credits
No substitution.  All courses taken at Cleary University
BCS 340 Technology for Management Effectiveness
COM 350 Research and Communication Methods in Business
LAW 420 Ethics, Business Law, and Social Responsibility
MGT 450 Management of Organizational Behavior
MGT 465 Managing International Business
MGT 485 Business Planning
MKT 430 E-marketing Strategies
QTY 440 Managing Projects and Processes in Organizations
 
General Education and Elective Courses     108 credits
Courses may be taken at Cleary University.  Substitution permitted by Transfer or Prior Learning documentation.
 
Total    180 credits