Standard Six
An organizational Leader Seeks to Understand Respond and influence
Standard 6: Program completers appreciate, respond to, and influence the larger political social, economic, legal, and cultural context through their research, analysis and evaluation of procedures policies and empower others to join the process with them.
ADS760
Ethical Practices Leadership and Policy
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to look at the micro and macro trends of organizations in order to understand the ethical implications of the assumptions and practices that drive organizations. Doctoral students will examine the ethical foundations that guide the organizational leader in the creation and implementation of policy.
ADS720
Process, Politics, and Evaluation of Public and Social Policy
COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course will provide graduate students with an opportunity to reflect on both public and social policies from economic, social and political theories and perspectives. Students will study current issues including: discrimination in hiring and housing, funding of public and private organizations, labor negotiations, personal health, clean environment and insurance concerns. They will analyze several decision-making models in use on the federal, state, and local levels. Of special concern is the role that politics plays in the development and implementation of policy.