MGMT 4377: Leadership and Strategic Management for HSO

Focusing on strategy and leadership, this course addresses the challenges of management in human services organizations (for-profit, non-profit, and public entity). The course takes an entrepreneurial perspective and provides students with the conceptual and analytic base needed to build and lead a new or established organization. The course exposes students to several analytic tools and processes (e.g., mission and vision, change management, strategic planning, governance and relationships with the board, organizational life-cycles and scaling, and partnerships and alliances). Students will complete a service learning project in this course. Prerequisites: Must be taken as the final course in the minor program.