Masters of Arts

Master’s of Organizational & Global Leadership

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Program Overview

Do you lead a department, a church, a team, or a classroom? Do you aspire to grow not just your resumé, but your skills, your wisdom, and your walk with God? Then the Master of Arts in Organizational and Global Leadership (MOL) at York University Online is for you.

This master’s program is designed for leaders in diverse settings including business, healthcare, non-profit, churches, schools, criminal justice, law enforcement, technology, sports management and coaches, and anyone who is in or aspires to be in a leadership position. Students from any field will be able to make application of these leadership growth and development concepts.

York University offers five MOL degree concentrations for you to choose coursework more specific to your profession or goals.

If you have questions about this Education Master's or would like to schedule an informational meeting, please contact our team at online@york.edu

Department Outcomes

Our goals/outcomes for graduates of the Master of Arts in Organizational and Global Leadership

The graduate candidate will apply ethical principles in professional settings.
The graduate candidate will evaluate multiple approaches in organizational programs in a professional context and communicate effective change.
The graduate candidate will demonstrate proficiency in leadership theory, development, and problem-solving.
The graduate candidate will demonstrate the ability to work with others in a variety of organizational or global contexts.

Areas of Concentration:

Business Information Leadership

Corporate America today desires leaders who are not only excellent, but are also ethical, honest, and possess integrity. While everyone can lead, by being an influencer of others, those leaders who possess high character and integrity are sought by most organizations. The MOL program, with an area of concentration in Business Information Leadership, not only prepares leaders to project manage and work with business systems and understand data, but it will challenge each leader to practice leadership growth in a variety of business settings.

Concentration Outcome

Organizational and Global Leadership

In today’s fast-paced world, the job market has moved beyond your hometown. With business professionals leading more teams that are connecting digitally, and more partnerships including an international component, it is important that leadership consider developing skills that will ignite the acknowledgment of cultures, diversity, sensitivity, and world view. The MOL program, with a concentration in Organizational and Global Leadership, will prepare students to be better change agents in today's modern business model.

Concentration Outcome

Social-Emotional Leadership

One of the highest areas of need in society today is in the space of social and emotional awareness and leadership. Many schools and organizations are in high demand for qualified people to work with students, or employees, in areas of guidance and counseling. This concentration will provide educational or organizational leaders with strategies for effectively helping others manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, show empathy for others, make positive decisions, or make responsible choices. Within the concentration, a student will study crisis intervention, organizational and human behavior, and social-emotional intelligence.

Concentration Outcome

The graduate candidate will synthesize an understanding for development and instructional techniques which focus on Social and Emotional Learning.

Sports Administration

Set yourself apart by being prepared to bring innovative and team leadership to sports-related enterprises. This concentration can equip you to meet the business, administration, coaching, and experiential challenges that come with building and maintaining a successful sports program and career. You will graduate with the knowledge, disciplines, and insights needed to navigate the sports industry. Graduates become leaders in a $900 billion global industry exploding with opportunities through mobile technology, interactive spectatorship, fantasy sports, and performance analytics opening the door for a new generation of sports professionals who are prepared to step in.

Concentration Outcome

The graduate candidate will be able to effectively analyze the role and responsibilities of a sports administrator, understand models, and show an ability to implement their frameworks.

Ministry Growth and Development

Churches need leaders, rooted in a holistic understanding of discipleship and spiritual growth, who can guide through change, encourage healthy congregational life, and implement strategies for growth, multiplication, sustained vitality and renewal. This concentration integrates theological insight with organizational development, equipping students with the knowledge and skills needed to cultivate learning communities, nurture mature communities of faith and encourage innovation, while also addressing the unique challenges faced by churches in diverse cultural contexts.

Concentration Outcome

Courses

The Master of Arts in Organizational and Global Leadership is comprised of 36 total credit hours. All courses are 8 weeks long and students may attend full-time, part-time, or hybrid programs for greater work/life balance.

36 credit hours

Core Curriculim

9 hours - each course is 3 hours

GRS 5311 Research Design & Methodology

This course will provide an opportunity for participants to establish or advance their understanding of research through critical exploration of research language, ethics, and approaches. The course introduces the language of research, ethical principles and challenges, and the elements of the research process within quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods approaches. Participants will use these theoretical underpinnings to begin to critically review literature relevant to their field or interests and determine how research findings are useful in informing their understanding of their environment (work, social, local, global).

GRS 5331 Program Planning & Evaluation

Program Planning presents an overview of the process for designing, presenting and evaluating programs in a variety of fields. This course provides instruction and practice in designing and implementing high quality programs. This essential skills learning is for York University Online professionals to build skills in the areas of program development, evaluation, and influence reporting. The course includes training on active learning, practical application, and practice in developing evaluation tools to measure program impact.

GRS 5341 Navigating in a Diverse Society

This course provides students with the awareness, knowledge and skills required of professional leaders, supervisors, managers, counselors, and educators if they are to be effective in a pluralistic and diverse society. This course prepares students to be multi-culturally competent. Diversity and identity issues, multicultural models and frameworks will be explored in relation to their impact on therapeutic, instructional, and supervisory relationships.

Major Curriculum

18 hours - each course is 3 hours

MOL 6311 Personal Leadership Development

MOL 6311 - The focus of this course will be on you as the leader from an individual perspective. It will be an introduction to the principles and practices of positive interpersonal relationships for leadership development. The course will be based on each student's perception of their own life experiences that have helped them reach this level in their leadership development journey (Past), where they are now in that journey (Present), and their personal leadership goals (Future). The goal of the course is to assist each student to become a more informed and effective leader in his or her intended work and community setting. The following foundational topics in leadership are included: Overview of key leadership theories and models; differences between management and leadership; followership, influence, and power; and introduction to leadership coaching. Several self-assessments used during the class.

MOL 6321 Budgeting & Finance

This course is designed to provide the non-accountant and financial manager with the knowledge necessary to interact with professionals from those disciplines. The majority of the material draws from the theory and practice of financial management. Sufficient accounting background is provided to enable the student to understand and work with information provided by accounting and finance professionals. Emphasis is placed on understanding terms, concepts, and uses of information provided by these functions rather than on the actual performance of the calculations.

MOL 6331 Leadership Development & Coaching

This course offers students a comprehensive, relevant perspective on leadership and developing leaders. While the course provides grounding in important concepts, it also stresses application to professional and community settings. Students analyze concepts such as leading as an interactive process, leading with innovation and creativity, escaping from embedded practices, and embracing new leadership principles. This course provides students with contemporary study of leadership and developing leadership in others.

MOL 6341 Leading Complex Change

This course will present innovative perspectives on organizational change management problems and offers practical ways to solve them. The issues examined apply across organizations, national boundaries, and technical domains. The course utilizes a unique analytical framework to address the change process from three perspectives: strategic, political, and cultural. Each of these perspectives provides critical insights and tools that enable managers to avoid the pitfalls associated with traditional approaches to change.

MOL 6351 Building & Managing Teams

Team building, teamwork, and team leading draws information from a wide variety of disciplines to introduce students to the ever important topic of teaming. This interdisciplinary course is designed to provide the student with an awareness and understanding of current issues relating to the nature and tasks of collaborative leadership behavior. The student is asked to identify an issue or problem and practice leadership by developing and implementing a team project.

MOL 6361 Crisis Communication & Leadership

This course examines the variables involved in crisis planning, communication and management. The organization’s vulnerabilities, the environment in which it thrives, the stakeholders who can influence its operation and the strategies best suited to maintaining or enhancing its reputation will be examined. The media plays a crucial role in crisis management and we will discuss this factor throughout the course. We will consider how the media acts as a catalyst as well as intermediary in this process. By the conclusion of the course, participants should have developed a deeper understanding of the range of crises facing organizations, an enhanced appreciation of communication tactics that can be brought to bear in such situations and a greater familiarity with the historical antecedents of current crises.

Organizational & Global Leadership

9 hours - each course is 3 hours

MOL 5321 Ethics & Professional Responsibilities

This course will provide a values-based approach to ethical professionalism and provide a method of thinking about and dealing with ethical issues in the workplace. The course will also provide discussion of what a profession is and what it means to act professionally and ethically. It will include discussion of the features of moral reasoning and provide a case resolution method for dealing with ethical issues of the workplace. The course will cover in-depth those values central to the moral life of any professional: integrity, respect for persons, justice, compassion, beneficence, and responsibility.

MOL 5361 Global Leadership

This course considers international leadership from a world-wide perspective. An in-depth focus on cross cultural contexts, politics, business practices, communication, diversity, worldview, and their impact on innovation, productivity, and communication. An emphasis will be placed on the analysis of global developmental deficit issues, such as how poverty can create digital divides, for critical analysis and problem-solving through creative leadership approaches.

MOL 5351 Organizational Leadership & Human Behavior

This course examines the complex nature of human behavior that takes place within organizations. These behaviors, both individual and group, have an effect on the stated outcomes of organizations. Leaders who understand these behaviors are better equipped to lead. Included in the course are identification of current leaders and leadership as well as contemporary perspectives on ethics, networking, coaching, organizational culture, diversity, learning organizations, strategic leadership, and crisis leadership with a focus on foundational Leadership Theory.

Business Information Leadership

9 hours - each course is 3 hours

BIL 6311 Introduction to Baseline Business Information Systems Management

This course provides a foundation in the theory and practical application of information systems within an organization. From a senior management viewpoint, the course covers the use of information technology to achieve competitive advantage, managing information assets, outsourcing, operations and management. Strategic value, methodologies, quality, decision making, modeling, re-engineering, software, hardware, and ethics will all be included.

BIL 6321 Analytics Driven Project Management

This course requires an examination of the methods used to make informed decisions and project management strategies. Students will apply project management process through the framework of planning, estimating, leading, and monitoring how to optimize business models and intellectual capital.

BIL 6331 Leading with Data

This course will revisit leadership theory and provide emphasis on developing behaviors which will strategically drive quality data-driven leadership. Students will learn to expose data of ethical pitfalls, consider development organizational terminology, and consider management skills needed to train others to mine, analyze and report data. Skills such as proper questioning, critical analysis of operational systems, and presentation skills using data will be practiced.

Social-Emotional Leadership

9 hours - each course is 3 hours

SCO 6321 Counseling Skills & Crisis Intervention

This course is designed to prepare individuals to navigate concerns of crisis making an impact on our youth and society. Practical applications that serve a diverse population will be studied and applied using theoretical approaches and techniques. Preparation for crisis strategies, social and emotional growth, trauma and recovery will be explored.

SEL 6331 Critical Issues in Social & Emotional Learning

This course examines issues related to social emotional learning and leadership development. It will explore contributing factors and how caring professionals can help people overcome problems and build resilience that affect their motivation to learn as well as their interpersonal skills.

MOL 5351 Organizational Leadership & Human Behavior

Sports Administration

9 hours - each course is 3 hours

SPA 5341 Facility and Game Day Operations

This course will examine a panoramic view of game day operations and facilities management. Strategic objectives regarding facility management, renovation, planning and building will be explored. Business models exploring how to create game day branded experiences, luxuries, and memories to entice continued attraction will be introduced.

SPA 6321 Sports Economics and Finances

This course explores internal and external implications, which influence the economics associated with athletics. Additionally the course will focus on and examine business choices such as cash flow and financial planning as it relates to leading and administering within an athletic environment at the administrative, coaching, team, and associated school or franchise level. By the end of this course, learners will be able to apply real world finance in a sport administration role.

SPA 6341 Administrative Strategies in Athletics

This course will explore leadership theory and themes applied to athletic leaders, managers, coaches, players, and staff. An emphasis will be placed on current events, opportunities, and challenges facing athletic programs and franchises.

Ministry Growth and Development

9 hours - each course is 3 hours

MIN 5311 The Learning Congregation

This course explores the concept of the congregation as a dynamic learning-centered community, shaped by ongoing spiritual formation, theological reflection, and organizational development which can be intersected to encourage growth and renewal. Students will examine how congregations adapt to change, cultivate discipleship, goal-set, and engage in lifelong learning.

MIN 6321 Faithful Decision-Making

This course explores the principles and frameworks that shape ethical and strategic decision-making within Christian leadership and ministry settings. Grounded in biblical wisdom and informed by leadership theory, students will examine how faith, scripture, and moral discernment converge to address real-word challenges faced by churches, nonprofit organizations, and broader communities. Key topics include the application of biblical wisdom to leadership decisions, navigating ethical dilemmas in ministry, the role of prayer and spiritual discernment, and the tension between honoring tradition and embracing innovation.

MIN 6331 Empowering Spiritual Truths

This course explores the transformational power and practical application of spiritual truths as foundations for personal growth, discipleship, and effective ministry within the life of the church. Students will examine how spiritual truth shapes identity, guides ethical action, and empowers leadership in church and community settings. Special attention will be given to cultivating spiritual maturity, personal discipleship, congregational edification, discerning gifts, creating a culture of encouragement, and mobilizing a driven ministry.

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Term Schedule

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