Systems management creates the foundational approach for managing in this challenging environment. The program integrates course work with professional work. It emphasizes leadership, service, collaborative work, virtual team processes, and Internet-based communication.
All students complete the capstone project.
Student applies systems management to a real world project, and contributes to organizational learning through the capstone report. Typically, a student identifies a project that is of major importance to the student and employer. Working with a faculty mentor, the student completes a systems analysis and project plan, carries out the project, and submits a final report demonstrating application of systems management theory to practice. Individual responsibility for team success using foundational team models and theories. Personality, development, motivation, power and influence, learning styles, communications, individual and group growth and development, virtual groups, learning groups, leadership, conflict, privacy.