Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership
Program Goals
Upon completion of all program requirements of the Doctor of Management in Organizational Leadership degree, learners will be able to:
- Recognize leadership as a process promoting action in service of self, organization, community, and the planet.
- Apply leadership models to promote global and social responsibility.
- Critically analyze the validity and value of research.
- Make original scholarly contributions by researching real-world problems and issues in organizational management.
- Critically examine the philosophical foundations of organizations and leadership.
- Identify personal leadership philosophies and philosophies of knowledge and their applications to organizations.
- Create learning organizations outside of contemporary paradigms utilizing optimal design theories.
- Create an environment that produces core competent, inter-culturally sophisticated leaders.
- Create an environment that nurtures effective cross-functional, continually enhanced human capital prepared to meet the demands of strategic organizational success.
Program Structure
The DM program creates a perfect opportunity for mid-career professionals to refresh and recreate their commitment to the tasks required of organizational leaders. Learners will think deeply about the current state of organizations and their leadership; create imaginative, new applications from what is learned; and contribute new knowledge to the profession and society.
The DM program has a 62-credit requirement that incorporates both residency and online modalities of instruction. The majority of the program will be delivered in an online, virtual classroom setting. In these courses, learners will work in a cohort of approximately 12 peers and be required to spend approximately 25 hours per week on required coursework.
Courses offered during residency sessions cover a variety of areas essential to the successful completion of this advanced degree program, including insights into dissertation preparation. Additionally, in the third year residency, learners will apply their knowledge to a comprehensive, collaborative case study. This case study is the University's vehicle for assessing programmatic learning. Because of the nature and value of the information presented in the residency environment, learners must attend all residency sessions.
The most important milestone of the DM degree is the successful completion and oral defense of a significant, substantial, and independently completed doctoral dissertation that adds new information to the body of management knowledge. The dissertation provides the learner an opportunity to demonstrate mastery of germinal and current literature and express their competence in applying learning to actual organizational issues. To ensure the quality of this effort, the program's curriculum is designed to develop the learner's ability to create original solutions to complex issues and to carefully identify and apply the most appropriate research methodology for addressing these issues.
Because of the highly independent nature of the program, learners must be self-disciplined and exceedingly motivated to earn this degree.