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This part-time Master's Degree Program prepares individuals to analyze and solve problems quickly by synthesizing information, rethinking work processes, enhancing member collaboration, sculpting organizational culture to steer organizations toward success.
- 12-course (36-credit-hour) program
- Can be completed in two years
- Focuses on strategic leadership for individual and organizational excellence
- Weekday evening classes at the Arlington Graduate Education Center
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The Organizational Management (OM) concentration is a cutting-edge Master's Degree designed to push the boundaries of strategic leadership. Our mission is to deliver an integrated, individual-centered curriculum providing students with a deep understanding of how individuals and organizations can excel in a global environment.
The open enrollment Organizational Management Program incorporates an integrated package of theories, techniques, and tools to help you successfully strategize and lead your institution through a changing environmental landscape. Classes taught by an interdisciplinary faculty provide a conceptual lens that will enable you to understand organizations and navigate effectively within them. The 12-course curriculum can be completed within two years.
Philosophy
The rapidly changing social and organizational landscape is now global in nature and function. The premise of The George Washington University Organizational Sciences program is that, regardless of the industry, individuals and organizations must be ready to think and act quickly and effectively to maximize their outcomes. Our program focuses on preparing you to analyze and solve problems quickly by synthesizing information, rethinking work processes, enhancing member collaboration, sculpting organizational culture, integrating the interests of a diverse set of stakeholders, and steering organizations toward success. Pivotal to this success is an understanding of the interactive-systems and relationships between individuals, organizations, and the environment.
The Organizational Sciences program, founded in 1981, is part of The George Washington University (GW) Columbian College of Arts and Sciences. We have an interdisciplinary approach to the study of organizational effectiveness, drawing on the fields of organizational management, psychology, communication, economics, and statistics.
Organizational Sciences ties managerial and executive success to the integration of knowledge in three key areas: Strategy and Change Management, Leadership and Communication, and Performance and Talent Management. These interlocking knowledge components, when fused, create a knowledge base critical for individual and organizational success.
Conceptual Domain of Organizational Sciences
Organizational Sciences is built on the belief that students need to build a systems perspective, allowing them to:
- Formulate strategic initiatives
- Design interactive systems
- Implement planned change
- Manage internationally
- Develop effective teams
- Recruit, train, and retain talent
- Communicate internally and externally
- Implement transformational leadership
- Form decisions under uncertainty
- Negotiate and mediate
- Measure and assess performance
- Persuade with data
M.A. ORGANIZATIONAL SCIENCES CONCENTRATION
IN ORGANIZATIONAL MANAGEMENT
1-YEAR ACCELERATED FELLOWS PROGRAM
Accelerated Cohort Program Offered at
The GW Main Campus
Foggy Bottom
Washington, DC
The accelerated Organizational Management (OM) Fellows Program is designed to include a highly integrated cohort experience and cross-functional faculty, which pushes the boundaries of strategic leadership. It is created for working professionals-or students with prior work experience-in business, non-profit, government, and the military.
The curriculum is comprised of 12 courses in a rigorous, lock-step, 7-week thematic block format, offering students in this cohort the opportunity to complete the program curriculum within one year.
For more information, please contact Dr. Elizabeth Davis at 202 994-1870 or ebdavis@gwu.edu.
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