Organizational Leadership and Management
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Updated 10/30/2025
Further your professional goals by taking targeted management and organizational behavior courses.
Gain a solid foundation and comprehensive understanding of both organizational leadership and management with the online Master of Science (M.S.) in Management and Organizational Behavior from Benedictine University.
While fundamentally different, leadership and management are critically connected and complementary to each other. Management tends to focus on planning, organization and coordination, while leadership seeks to inspire and motivate others within the organization.
A Comprehensive Curriculum with Targeted Courses
Benedictine University’s online M.S. in Management and Organizational Behavior curriculum provides you with the tools and techniques to sharpen both your leadership and management skills. Courses are taught by esteemed experts, whose classroom instruction is derived from real-world experience. Courses include:
- Organizational Behavior: Explore the diverse determinants and organizational consequences of individual and group behavior. Uncover theories, concepts and research findings that help leaders, managers and associates understand how motivation and performance of individuals and teams can be nurtured and sustained.
- Organizational Development: Consider the theory and practice of organizational change and organizational development (O.D.). Discusses analysis, planning, implementation and evaluation of change programs. Covers the learning process, O.D. interventions, consultant skills, employee participation, monitoring success, reinforcement and ethical issues.
- Team Building: This course helps you understand the theoretical basics of team building and its strengths and weaknesses as an organizational development intervention. You will assess the stages of team development and how to build cohesive teams.
- Leadership and Ethics in a Global Environment: In this course, you will discover important ethical theories and consider the need for social responsibility in business and other organizations. You will also study the ethical dilemmas faced by leaders in such areas as marketing, product safety, the environment and job discrimination.
- Human Resources and Talent Management: Discover the relationship of business and HR planning and the changing character of the workforce. You will gain a systemic overview of recruiting, training and compensation as well as diversity, inclusion, legal issues and employee relations.
- Project Management: This course emphasizes planning, while introducing project management fundamentals and principles from the standpoint of the project manager who must plan, organize, execute and monitor and control non-operational activities to deliver projects on time, under budget and within performance objectives.
Take the Next Step
To learn more about how an online M.S. in Management and Organizational Behavior from Benedictine University can help you gain knowledge in organizational leadership and management, request information or call (866) 295-3104 to speak with an admissions counselor.