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Organizational Leadership

Your degree will prepare you for organizational leadership in both goods-producing and service enterprises for fluency in the management of systems, personnel and/or quality.

Overview

Planning, organizing, leading, taking initiative … does that sound like you? If you want a career where leading others and managing change effectively are your keys to advancement, look no further than organizational leadership. At job resources site Salary.com, on a given day, there are more than 1,000 available jobs in the “organizational leadership” category and several hundred jobs in the “executive” category, with salaries ranging from $46,832 to $792,493 annually.

Why? Because all organizations have a hierarchy of leadership and human resources to manage. Organizations can only succeed when they successfully find, motivate, and effectively lead talented employees.

Your degree will prepare you for organizational leadership in both goods-producing and service enterprises for fluency in the management of systems, personnel and/or quality. The job sector is expanding faster than many other occupations, and it is a competitive job market. You’ll gain the strategic communication and leadership tools to run teams, divisions and entire companies.

Organizational leadership is a major program of study offered in Corvallis and online through Ecampus.

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What You’ll Learn

Recognize, discuss, and demonstrate concepts, techniques, and decision tools available to manage projects.

Effectively lead work groups and teams by creating a shared vision, mobilizing energy around the vision, and managing obstacles to its achievement.

Apply human resource management principles and law to evaluate human resource initiatives and manage an organization’s human capital.

Utilize principles of effective negotiation to plan, prepare, and manage negotiations and conflicts.

Describe how to implement best practices in employee recruitment and selection.

Differentiate methods of compensation aimed at motivating and rewarding employee contributions to the organization.

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degrees and areas of focus

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of classes have fewer than 50 students

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companies recruit our students each year

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Study Abroad

Sydney, Australia: University of Technology Sydney

Vienna, Austria: Vienna University of Economics & Business

Santiago, Chile: Universidad de Chile, Facultad Economia y Negocios

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Finance Club

Institute of Management Accountants

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Scholarships

Chevron International Experience Scholarship

Deloitte Scholarship

McNeal Family Accounting Scholarship

Pattee Family Accounting Scholarship

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Ways to Attend

We offer class in the modalities that work for you and your schedule.

In-Person: Corvallis

Attend in-person in Corvallis and attend your classes in Austin Hall, one of the crown jewels of the OSU campus.

Online

Study through Ecampus online an make your degree as convient as you need it to be.

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The PRIME experience for organizational leadership majors

The PRIME experience for organizational leadership majors lets you pursue a specialized four-credit independently designed project or experience related to your career or academic interests. Projects could include the development of an onboarding process, a financial or marketing analysis, or the development of a written business plan for a new product launch.

A PRIME experience takes you outside the classroom, and puts your learning to the test, Here are some examples of a PRIME project:

  1. an internship with a private business, non-profit, government agency or other entity;
  2. an opportunity to work closely with a faculty member on a research project or to pursue your own research;
  3. an international experience focused on working effectively with an increasingly diverse, connected and global community of colleagues; or
  4. an independent entrepreneurship project conducted for a business or organization.

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