Bachelor of Science in Business Administration - Organizational Behavior and Leadership Major

The Organizational Behavior & Leadership (OBL) major teaches us to actively investigate organizational life, providing you with the conceptual and practical tools to effectively management and lead complex organizations. Our Jesuit values of moral and ethical leadership, social justice, and service to others provide the inspiration and the core for the program’s curriculum. The Organizational Behavior and Leadership (OBL) major will prepare us to assume leadership roles that are essential to meet the challenges and uncertainty confronting today’s organizations. The OBL program is structured to equip you with the knowledge, skills, abilities, attitudes, and tools you need to facilitate the performance of the organizations where you serve. The curriculum focuses on the theoretical frameworks and practical applications for exploring and explaining human behavior in the workplace, providing a broad perspective so you can go beyond your accepted ways of interacting and working with others. Through classroom emphasis on critical thinking and independent judgment, you will learn to be an active investigator of organizational life while you develop the conceptual and problem-solving skills that an organizational leader needs to plan, organize, and inspire a group or an entire organization.The Learning Outcomes are: Apply concurrently organizational behavior theory to practice in the classroom, organization, and society. Analyze and synthesize how cognitive, behavioral, and emotional outcomes at the individual, team and organizational levels contribute to the sustainability of organizations. Demonstrate competence in integrating skills relevant to effective management professionals in effectively making timely and ethical decisions required in leading complex organizations. Learn to lead, communicate, and work effectively with diverse individuals and teams through a broad, interdisciplinary foundation. Develop a fuller awareness and appreciation of self, others, society and the world through the Jesuit values of moral and ethical leadership, social justice, and service to others.