This 12-credit certificate will provide a solid foundation in leadership concepts and employment relations that can enhance student leadership and managerial skills. The Foundations of Organizational Leadership certificate provides an introduction to key leadership concepts and practices and provides students with the knowledge and skills that are characteristic of effective leaders. Certificate programs focus on a specific skill set, allowing you to earn this Penn State credential in a relatively short time. The courses can be applied to the bachelor's degree in Organizational Leadership.
适合你生活的教育
专为成人学习者打造, students will learn with a Penn State instructor and other adult learners. Accelerated evening courses meet once a week for seven weeks in-person or via live video instruction with online learning components. As a participant either in the classroom or via video 技术, students can communicate with the instructor and interact with other students. 证书具有以下功能:
- Complete a Penn State 12-credit certificate in one year, during the fall and spring semesters of one academic year.
- Increase your leadership and management skills while gaining skills that are characteristic of effective leaders.
- Gain specialized knowledge on workplace and employment issues from both the employee's and employer's perspective.
- Build your resume to advance your career, quickly.
职业潜力
Open positions for employment relations and leadership skills can generally be found in human resources or as managers, coordinators or supervisors in a variety of industries including healthcare, 教育, 制造业和房地产业.
Source: Burning Glass Technologies’ Labor Insight™ Real-time Labor Market Information tool.
证书要求及课程
Students seeking the Foundations of Organizational Leadership Certificate must complete 12 credits earning a minimum of a “C” grade in the following course work:
OLEAD 100 (3 credits) - Introduction to Leadership
Introduction to key leadership concepts and practices to show students the knowledge and skills that are characteristic of effective leaders. This course is designed to increase your ability to:
- Describe fundamental principles of leadership and how they relate to becoming an effective leader
- 将领导力概念应用于案例研究, self-assessment questionnaires and common leadership challenges
- 拥抱多样性和包容性
- 解决领导中的道德问题
OLEAD 201 (3 credits) – Organizational Theory and Functions for Leaders
Explores the various functions of organizations laying strong foundations for future coursework including leadership, 金融, 通信, 技术, 生产与销售. This course is designed to increase your ability to:
- Define organization, organizational theory, and organizational behavior.
- Describe the major functions of an organization (leadership, 沟通, 团队合作, 操作, 等.).
- Describe the major organizational behaviors (motivation, job performance, effectiveness, 等.).
- Determine the interconnections among organizational functions and behaviors.
OLEAD 210 (3 credits) – Evidence-Based Leadership
Utilization of strong information and facts to increase the likelihood of success of leadership in organizations. This course is designed to increase your ability to:
- 识别不同类型的证据.
- 评估证据质量.
- 找到有力的事实证据.
- 解释的证据.
- 使用证据来做领导决策.
- Implement evidence-based strategies (interventions).
OLEAD/LER 465 (3 credits) - Collective Decision Making
Application of theories of decision making to work-related issues in 组 and organizations requiring collective resolution and action. This course is designed to increase your ability to:
- Develop an appreciation of the processes (single-motive and mixed-motive) by which those in positions of authority, 组, and organizations make consequential choices.
- Become familiar with what distinguishes good decision making (rational) from poor decision making (non-rational and/or irrational).
- 学习, 以及发展技能, what one can do to enhance the likelihood that decisional outcomes will be optimal rather than suboptimal.