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 through Ecampus.
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.
College of Business degrees and options
Classes with fewer than 50 students
Companies recruit our students each year
Options
Once you enroll in the organizational leadership major, you can also select from the following options:
Organizational leadership opportunities
Study abroad
Sydney, Australia: University of Technology Sydney
Vienna, Austria: Vienna University of Economics & Business
Santiago, Chile: Universidad de Chile, Facultad Economia y Negocios
Associated clubs
OSU Management Association/SHRM Student Chapter
Sales Club
Real Estate Club
Scholarships
Boeing Corporate
Management Department
Richard T. Harris Memorial Scholarship
Supply Chain and Logistics Management Department Scholarship
Ways to attend
We offer classes in the modalities that work for you and your schedule.
Attend classes in Austin Hall, the $50 million, 100,000-square-foot building with five research centers, a marketing research suite, 10 classrooms, 23 computer- and teleconference-equipped project rooms, a 250-seat auditorium, a café and faculty offices.
Study from anywhere and earn one of our 100% online, fully AACSB-accredited business degrees. Nationally top-ranked for online learning, our classes are taught by business faculty who are known for research excellence and industry experience.
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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:
- an internship with a private business, non-profit, government agency or other entity;
- an opportunity to work closely with a faculty member on a research project or to pursue your own research;
- an international experience focused on working effectively with an increasingly diverse, connected and global community of colleagues; or
- an independent entrepreneurship project conducted for a business or organization.
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