The vision of the Center for Leadership Studies is to empower leaders to establish, renew and invigorate the souls of organizations through biblical leadership principles in order to bring glory to God and to His Son, Jesus Christ, through the Holy Spirit.
Organizations are groups of people who work together to accomplish common goals.
These goals include those established by the senior leaders of the organization as well as the individual's personal goals. Unfortunately, most organizational leaders do not seem to have a good understanding of what motivation is or to help people in the organization achieve their goals. McGregor stated in his work on Theory Y that employees will work vigorously toward the accomplishment of organizational goals if those goals are in alignment with the employees' goals. Thus, the first part of this course seeks to understand the people who are part of our organizations. The second part of the course seeks to help understand how systems and structures in the organization, including the expectations of the leaders do, or don't, motivate the people in the organization.