Organizational Leadership

MOL 620 - Multidisciplinary Leadership

Leadership studies are influenced by underlying disciplines of psychology, sociology, history, strategy, philosophy, military studies, and religion studies. This course prepares leaders by offering them a broad conceptual base for understanding leadership behaviors and effectiveness, contextualized in Muhlenberg’s interdisciplinary liberal arts teaching mission. The course features presentations by faculty from across Muhlenberg’s disciplines, using case studies, relevant literature, and critical writing and analysis to explore servant leadership, visionary leadership, and transformational leadership processes.

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MOL 632 - Organizational Change Management

Organizations are in constant flux, and leaders need to prepare for change in the organization in response to market, political, economic, social, and other forces, both internal and external. Students use a systems view to examine what drives people to change, how change methods affect people and desired outcomes, misconceptions about change methods, the financial impact of change methods, and common elements across methods. Students consider theories for creating sustainable change efforts and issues associated with the diffusion of innovation. The course prepares leaders for organizational change efforts with simulations, case studies, and examination of the underlying psychological, sociological, and economic characteristics of organizational change.Managing the underlying data for analytics can require specific languages for programming and  development. This course will be an overview of programming concepts, including hands-on learning with the programming language Python and an introduction to SQL. This course provides students with the practical understanding and skills required to manage data and data structures at the field level and understand how they are applied to business.  

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MOL 510 - Human Resource Leadership Strategy

The people of an organization are very often its strongest and best source of performance and competitive advantage. This course emphasizes the strategic importance of human resources in organizational action, with an overview of the objectives, requirements, economics, opportunities, and processes of creating the best workforce for long phases of an organization’s life. With an emphasis on the leader’s role in an organization’s HR management and the strategic opportunities and challenges that HR management present to leaders, course methods include on-site learning and studies using current data on organizational performance and the student’s reflection on leadership development.

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MOL 512 - Talent Management, Rewards, and Relations

Successful organizations and their leaders realize the importance of sustaining workers over the different phases of their careers, and this course aligns understanding of adult development with organizations’ ongoing needs for leaders and managers. This course fuses key concepts from organizational behavior and industrial organization psychology and applies them to leadership practice building strong relationships and engaged workers. Students study a wide range of intrinsic and extrinsic rewards and motivation methods, their theoretical foundations, and how leaders can apply them in different organizational settings and to a diverse workforce.

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MOL 640 - Strategic Thinking

Organizational leadership involves setting and implementing organization-level strategies to accomplish goals and build capacity in dynamic environments. Students focus on the leaders’ role in creating a compelling vision of the future for themselves, their team and the organization. Students will analyze competitive market and larger social, economic, legal, and technology trends using systematic tools for scenario planning to prepare for strategic choice of markets or sectors. Students study strategic management through the long term planning cycle of the organization. Teaching methods include case studies, market analysis, and critical analysis of scenarios and forecast methods.

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