MNGT 5000 Faculty Community

Welcome to the Management and Leadership MNGT 5000 Faculty Community:

MA in M&L Program Vision Statement:

The Management and Leadership Program Creates Strategic Mindset through Leadership.

Program Expectations:

Graduates of the MA in Management and Leadership are expected to demonstrate proficiency with group dynamics, collaboration, interpersonal relations and leading individuals, teams and organizations. They are also expected to analyze and organize proficient solutions for complex business problems and demonstrate logical reasoning and idea generation for making effective business decisions.

Graduates of this program need to demonstrate proficiency in the functional areas of business, such as finance, accounting, marketing operations and human resources, as well as the capacity to synthesize and apply this functional knowledge.

Graduates also need to demonstrate that they can construct solutions to management problems using facts, concepts, principles and analytical techniques, quantitative skills and theories used in the study of management.

Approach and Pedagogical Methodology: 

We use real-world simulations and experiential activities in this program to bring alive course content to help students engage and apply this learning in their positions.

We assess student knowledge, skills and abilities as a manager and leader, individually and provide students with a personalized development plan to match their strengths and challenges to help them succeed in their chosen career pathways.

The Management and Leadership Program focuses on the leadership and strategic thinking skills needed to identify innovative opportunities and make correct strategic decisions.

We believe that strategic thinking is a teachable and learnable skill.

Strategic Management teaches students the art of strategic thinking with roots in Sun Tzu, and how a leader should 'choose one's battles'.

Strategic thinking involves knowing when to attack, defend, retreat or avoid relative to any defined 'battle'.  

The Attack-Defend-Retreat-Avoid framework of 'strategy' provides a model for decision-makers to understand how best of allocate resources, movement and countermovement, for the greatest return.

The goal here is to eliminate the guesswork and reliance on 'hope this is the right decision', which is not a good strategy. 

We teach critical thinking skills and how to apply them in a competitive environment to directly improve decision-making skills.

The program learning outcomes are listed below.

Review the details presented to familiarize yourself with all the curriculum content. 

 

M&L Program Concepts  

 

Program Competencies: 

Knowledge Integration – Students practice fusing information and concepts from multiple disciplines to discern and exercise strategic decision making. Focus on the Balanced Scorecard quadrants, namely, internal process, customer, learning & growth and financial.

Critical Thinking –   Students practice analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating data and information and ideas from multiple perspectives of leading and organizing. 

Problem Solving - Students practice problem solving using analysis of evidence based real world managerial decision making.

Strategic Thinking  - Strategic thinking involves knowing when to attack, defend, retreat or avoid relative to any defined 'battle'.  

Data Analysis  - Students recognize when data and information are needed and what data and information are needed and have the ability to locate, evaluate, and effectively use the data to make strategic decisions.

Balanced Score Card - Students practice activities that focus on all three quadrants of the Balanced Scorecard, namely, internal process, customer, and financial.

Management - Students practice Planning, Organizing, Decision Making, and Controlling.

Leadership - Students practice leadership skills of leading, motivating, social intelligence, conflict management and mentoring using experiential curricular activities 

Managing Groups and Teams - Work cooperatively and effectively in diverse teams. Focus on two quadrants of the Balanced Scorecard, namely, learning & growth. 

Professional Behavior - Understand and apply standards for professional behavior.

Emotional Intelligence - Students practice the capacity to be aware of and control and express one's emotions in professional settings with empathy

Effective Communication - express ideas clearly, logically and persuasively in oral, visual, and written formats.

Program Learning Outcomes:

Graduates of management and leadership program will be able to:

  • Demonstrate proficiency with group dynamics, collaboration, interpersonal relations and leading individuals, teams and organizations.
  • Analyze and organize proficient solutions for complex business problems and demonstrate logical reasoning and idea generation for making effective business decisions.
  • Demonstrate proficiency in the functional areas of business, such as finance, accounting, marketing operations and human resources, as well as the capacity to synthesize and apply this functional knowledge. 
  • Construct solutions to management problems using facts, concepts, principles and analytical techniques, quantitative skills and theories used in the study of management.

Training Objectives:

The MA in Management and Leadership program uses the tools listed below:

McGraw-Hill Connect assessments and assignments and ModXm Pre and Post tests, Case studies and Open Source Materials.

The objective of this training is to familiarize instructors teaching this course to use these tools effectively. 

All instructors must successfully complete required activities before they are assigned to teach MNGT 5000

Review the content posted in each module and complete the activities listed. 

It is important that you complete this required training before you are assigned to teach these courses.

For questions please email me at joeroberts@webster.edu

Completing this training successfully does not guarantee teaching assignments.