Management and Organizational Leadership

Today's work organizations expect professionals to both manage and lead. These dual functions are essential to organizational success—management deals with maintaining and improving organizational effectiveness, whereas leadership deals with creating an inspired workforce and readying the organization for change.

The Zimpleman College of Business Management and Organizational Leadership (MOL) major prepares students for the challenging task of both managing and leading. MOL students acquire skills in planning, budgeting, and establishing a direction for the future; students learn how to recruit, hire, and appropriately deploy human resources and align human capital with strategic objectives. Zimpleman students gain competency in monitoring work processes, developing fair compensation strategies, and motivating and inspiring others to go above and beyond expectations; MOL students gain skills in instilling order and predictability in the workplace, leading change, and ensuring long-term organizational sustainability.

Beyond these core managerial and leadership skills, Zimpleman MOL students gain specialized skills in an area of interest by pursuing one (or more) of the MOL major tracks.

Tracks within Management and Organizational Leadership

There are five tracks:

Organizational Sustainability and Resiliency
Human Resource Management
Business Communication
Non-Profit and Public Management
Entrepreneurial Management

Importantly, our tracks are highly interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from within and without the Zimpleman College of Business. Further, coursework in the tracks is both academic and experiential; this is important because management and leadership skills are learned through classroom instruction and practical experience.

The Management and Organizational Leadership major prepares students to succeed in private, public, and non-profit organizations. In addition, MOL students are exposed to the issues and challenges of managing and leading organizations in a global economy. Diversity and inclusion, ethics in work organizations, and organizational sustainability are core to the MOL curriculum.