Online MAOL Courses

This course focuses on theories and styles of leadership and the ways in which outcomes are influenced through increased awareness of personal style and skills. Personal and professional ethics are analyzed, ethical issues in organizations are explored, and an understanding of how artificial intelligence (A.I.) tools can enhance or challenge effective organizational leadership are developed.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

• Evaluate major leadership theories and analyze their applicability across diverse organizational contexts.
• Contrast the diverse values and perspectives that influence viewpoints on leadership.
• Evaluate personal leadership strengths and opportunities for leadership success.
• Analyze the role of the leader in the context of organizational issues.
• Apply recognized leadership practices to a real-world organizational challenge.
• Distinguish emotional intelligence competencies that contribute to leadership success.
• Analyze ethical principles that affect decision making.
• Analyze ethical dilemmas within organizations.
• Synthesize the individual, organizational, and systemic issues in ethical situations.
• Construct a process for ethically responsible decision making and apply this model to ethical decision points.
• Evaluate how emerging A.I. technologies influence leadership strategies and ethical decision-making.

This course focuses on collaboration skills in developing high-performing teams, incorporating the role of artificial intelligence in enhancing team effectiveness. Students explore personal power, conflict, and influence in the workplace, along with strategies for leveraging artificial intelligence (A.I.) tools to improve communication, decision-making, and problem-solving in a collaborative context.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

• Develop strategies for high-performing teams.
• Evaluate the role of influence and personal power in building relationships.
• Analyze and apply appropriate conflict management approaches.
• Evaluate collaboration skills for team building.
• Assess cultural situations in organizations.
• Evaluate supportive communication techniques.
• Analyze an emotional competence framework and apply it to teams.
• Apply systems theory, team collaboration, and shared vision to organizations.
• Assess A.I.-assisted collaboration tools to strengthen team performance.

This course focuses on tools, techniques, and strategies for effective communication in organizational excellence, with an emphasis on the role of artificial intelligence in modern professional environments. Students examine how artificial intelligence (A.I.)-driven tools can enhance presentation, negotiation, and advocacy by improving message clarity, data visualization, predictive audience insights, and decision-making support. Ethical considerations and best practices regarding the use of artificial intelligence in organizational communication are also explored.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

• Evaluate how communication tools, channels, and techniques affect strategy.
• Demonstrate interpersonal communication to manage relationships via technology.
• Demonstrate effective and supportive listening skills in respectful engagement of others’ ideas, behaviors, and beliefs.
• Demonstrate the use of narrative and storytelling as a communication strategy.
• Demonstrate successful negotiating skills.
• Match vocabulary and voice to audience needs.
• Argue for and influence an audience on a critical topic.
• Present material in a visually appealing manner.
• Evaluate the ethical and professional standards governing the use of A.I. in designing and delivering effective communications.

This course focuses on global, economic, and political issues influencing today’s organizations. Contextual factors and trends in world economics and politics are examined.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

• Analyze the factors influencing the international political economy and the management of organizations
• Analyze the viewpoints identified in global politics
• Analyze the influence of organizational beliefs and policies on global economies
• Synthesize the cultural, economic, political, and social perspectives that impact organizations
• Evaluate global trends important for effective local management
• Articulate the challenges unique to organizations that operate globally

This course focuses on the ethical stewardship of an organization within a contextual environment. Increased awareness of social responsibility and global citizenship is addressed, along with cultural influences that impact organizations.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

• Demonstrate appropriate cultural and contextual communication
• Evaluate components of and influences on organizational culture
• Evaluate strategies for an organizational culture of diversity and inclusion
• Respect viewpoints that differ from the view most dominant in cultures
• Evaluate the choices and decisions required for social responsibility
• Synthesize ethical requirements with organizational ethical frameworks
• Analyze compliance issues and principles that affect an organization operating internationally

This course focuses on an overview of the fundamental components of organization development. It is designed to provide students with different perspectives on organization development at the individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis, highlighting how artificial intelligence (A.I.)-driven data analytics, automation, and decision-support tools enhance organizational performance and change management. Students learn theoretical models to evaluate organizational performance and techniques that develop the organization’s ability to manage change.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

• Describe the theoretical components of organization development and theory.
• Analyze challenges and opportunities of an internal/external consultant.
• Articulate the dynamics of the change process and resistance to change in organizations.
• Assess opportunities for planned and emergent change within an organization.
• Evaluate various organization interventions at the individual, group, and organizational level.
• Develop an organizational development plan integrating A.I. tools and methods.

This course focuses on assessing the overall effectiveness of various organizations and their approaches to change. Students learn how to apply theoretical models to evaluate organizational performance, techniques to manage interventions, and methods of evaluating and institutionalizing change.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

• Apply an organization development model to a design change strategy that may promote organizational effectiveness
• Articulate organizational problems at the individual, group (including team or unit), and organization levels of analysis
• Recommend solutions to address organizational problems
• Identify institutionalized evaluation techniques for planned change

This course focuses on strategic thinking and creativity in organizational leadership. Innovation is examined as a process to develop the strengths of a system or organization and to deliver positive results. Evaluation, analysis, and integration based on previous course learning are expected.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

• Evaluate the creative process
• Apply the principles of strategic thinking, planning, and development
• Evaluate the processes for developing a strategic initiative
• Analyze the blocks and enhancements to developing creativity
• Integrate creative thinking strategies in a system or an organization to build and/or foster its capacity to innovate, change, and develop
• Analyze trends in technology that influence innovation and leadership
• Assemble thoughtful, innovative strategies with creative practices for organizational/systems learning

This course examines recruitment, appraisal, development, and talent management strategies critical to a company’s success. Concepts related to adult learning are also examined.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

• Design work processes, job roles/responsibilities, evaluations, and compensation strategies.
• Evaluate recruitment and interviewing strategies.
• Develop successful strategies for performance appraisal and management.
• Identify terms, theories, and components of human resource development (HRD), talent management, and career development, including succession planning.
• Construct a theoretically sound, practically applied training and development plan for employees within an organization, focusing on the theories related to adult learning.
• Evaluate how emerging technologies can be used to improve data-driven decision-making in strategic human resource management.

This course integrates the knowledge, skill, and experience from all leadership coursework through research, writing, and a proposal for creative change.

Upon completion of this course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

• Integrate, synthesize, and apply coursework to assess the role of the leader and leadership practice and its interconnection with organizational/systems functioning
• Evaluate information and its sources critically
• Synthesize knowledge, skills, and experiences with leaders and leadership
• Evaluate peer presentations using a supportive communication style