A certificate or associate degree are available in either management or small business management in this program, which is designed to provide students with entry-level management skills. The program is suited for working adults in first-level management or supervisory positions, as well as those wanting to learn management skills.
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The Resource Management and Conservation (RMC) Program differs from traditional natural resource management degrees in that it provides the theory and skills combined with extensive internship opportunities so that our graduates not only leave the program with a marketable area of expertise but with documented experience as proven environmental professionals.
The RMC mission is to prepare environmental professionals to be effective agents of change that can address the realities and pressures of growth and development with the need to preserve the environment upon which society is dependent.
Find comfort in complexity.
Too often different stakeholders find themselves competing for limited resources. Environmental problems are treated superficially, particularly in respect to their socio-economic and political histories. And often administrators of resource management agencies don’t have training in dispute resolution, or in the management of finances, information, and human resources.
Create the common ground.
The Resource Management and Conservation (RMC) program engages you with the theory, skills, and internships that enable you to help diverse stakeholders find common ground and resolve complex environmental problems cooperatively—by balancing human needs, and maintaining and improving the natural systems upon which we depend.
Make decisions and then make them happen.
Our students want to be critical players in environmental decision-making as well as in the management of how those decisions are implemented. It is toward this end that our RMC graduates devote their careers.
Practicum: Implementation
Competency Area: Purposeful Systemic Change
The practicum is a facilitated, independent project. In the spring semester, students implement their strategic plan and conduct the project or activity. As a result of their fall semester practicum work, they have developed a strategy and goals for the project and conducted the necessary research for its development. Career development is a focus of the practicum this semester, as students shape their
Organizational Strategy & Decision Making
Competency Area: Purposeful Systemic Change
In this capstone course, students will draw on and apply knowledge and skills acquired from the entire curriculum to solve organization challenges from the perspective of the Chief Executive or senior management team member. This course will hone one’s ability to effectively diagnose challenges, determine options, and make decisions using both individual and group decision making skills. At the completion of the course you will increase your ability to see and address organization wide challenges from a range of perspectives and be better prepared for organization leadership and decision making.
Developing Human Resources
Competency Area: Management & Decision Making
Effective managers know how to foster workplace culture, practices, and relationships that support learning, satisfaction, and strong performance among employees (the “talent” upon which organizations rely). Employees in turn commit their knowledge, skills, and energy to the organization’s success. Through a combination of in-class and online activities, students identify principles of effective talent development and gain skills in specific aspects of that practice, including hiring, onboarding, performance development and evaluation, and addressing unsatisfactory performance.
3 credits
Quantitative & Qualitative Research Methods
Competency Area: Management & Decision Making
The course is designed to introduce students to the nature and methodology of inquiry, research, and evaluation and look at what learning and valid knowledge can be gotten from formalized research approaches. The course will focus on both quantitative and qualitative research paradigms and their application in the realm of organizational research and evaluation, especially as it involves issues of sustainability. We will examine the nature of various cultures of inquiry and methodologies. The course will help us become more adept consumers of research by other people and provide us guidance and practice in formulating productive research questions and designs, and then allow students to choose one of these research options in preparation for their Practicum project.
3 credits
Fall II
Practicum: Strategy & Research
Competency Area: Purposeful Systemic Change
The practicum is a facilitated, independent project. In the fall semester, students identify a focus and develop a strategy for a project, and then conduct research and implement project management tools to create and meet the goals of the project. Activities include brainstorming possible project topics, choosing one, and conducting a review of the relevant literature, creating an annotated bibliography and creating a reference list, specifying goals and expectations, and preparing a timeline for the implementation of the project.
2 credits
Leadership & Organizational Change
Competency Area: Purposeful Systemic Change
For organizations to thrive in today’s complex and dynamic environment, organization leaders and managers increasingly need knowledge on how to engage organizational members in systemic change that is understood and supported within the organization. Models, methods, and techniques for leading and facilitating planned short and long-term change efforts at the group and organization level will be introduced, as well as ways of responding to unplanned change. Change strategies and methods will be evaluated for application and fit with the intended change outcomes, organization needs, and organization culture. We will examine leadership behaviors, perspectives, and attributes that support effective change efforts.
3 credits
Financial Management
Competency Area: Financial Management
This course is intended to be for non-financial managers in both for-profit and nonprofit organizations The goal of this course is to develop a basic understanding of financial terms and concepts as well as a general awareness of financial tools that assist managerial decision-making. This course will help you translate financial and accounting concepts into decision-making tools you can use successfully every day. All topics will cover concepts for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations.
Managing Technology for Personal & Organizational Productivity
Competency Area: Systems & Strategic Thinking
The Knowledge Revolution demands that contemporary managers embrace and exploit technologies that will forever alter their roles and the very structure of organizations. Managers must learn to wed both technological and human skills to succeed in the organization of the future. This course will address the issues of managing I/T, knowledge, personal technologies, and project resources toward the support of overall organizational strategy and sustainability, emphasizing that information-based business transformation projects are actually major organizational change events.
Leadership: Theories, Applications, & Self-Knowledge
Competency Area: Leadership & Self Development
Whether you are currently in a formal leadership and management role, have the career aspirations to seek one, or perhaps prefer to exercise your influence from an informal position, understanding the conceptual underpinnings of leadership theory will help you develop more effective ways to lead, manage, influence, and sustain your organization in complex environments. This course examines a variety of historical and contemporary perspectives of leadership with a focus on ethical leadership. This course also provides a conceptual framework and strategy for increasing self-awareness and personal effectiveness as leaders and managers.
Macroeconomics & Globalization
Competency Area: Financial Management
The globalization of the economy refers to the increasing integration and interdependence of all realms of economic life, including trade, finance, production, and consumption. Yet, globalization is not just about economics but culture. Understanding and assessing the effectiveness of various macroeconomic models also requires an understanding of the interactions among various cultures and value systems, as well as technological infrastructure. This course will introduce models for the assessment of macroeconomies and their relationships to culture and technology.
Organizational Communications
Competency Area: Leadership & Self Development
Competence as a person and, by inclusion, as a manager, can be thought of in terms of how well one can communicate — i.e., a person’s communicative competence. Drawing on research in a variety of fields, this course will focus on increasing student competence in conflict management and resolution, presentation skills, assertiveness, giving and receiving feedback, diversity and cultural competence, written communications, and use of technical media. A major assumption will be that growth in communicative competence is not simply a matter of skill acquisition, but involves proportionate transformations, of beliefs, of self, and of oneself as manager.
3 credits
Leadership & Teams
Competency Area: Collaboration & Group Dynamics
High performing teams are essential to success in today’s organizations. This course focuses on providing positive influence in work teams as a team leader, facilitator, and member. Students learn how to foster high performing teams through observing group dynamics, assessing stages of team development, providing effective leadership and facilitation at each stage, working with the dynamics of diversity, and applying various approaches to collaborative decision-making. Students work in teams on team development and performance tasks both in class and virtually.
Sustainability & Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR): An Application of Systems Theories
Competency Area: Systems & Strategic Thinking
An historical and contemporary overview of systems and complexity theories will be presented with coverage of the foundational scientific principles that govern all sustainable systems. Students will be introduced to models and processes which will give them the capacity to evaluate any action or policy regarding sustainability in a variety of complex systems. This evaluation process will see CSR as based on the “triple bottom line” – assessing management organizational practices in terms of their effectiveness in creating economically sustainable organizations that are humane, and socially and environmentally responsible.
3 credits
Effective managers create and sustain socially responsible, economically vibrant, and humane organizations. Our MS program helps you develop the knowledge and skills to effect positive, lasting change in yourself and in your organization. This comprehensive program highlights self knowledge, career development, systems thinking, leadership, and organizational management.
The MS in Organizational Leadership and Management is designed for professionals from all levels of for-profit and nonprofit organizations, higher education, healthcare, small businesses and entrepreneurs who aspire to become better managers and leaders.
Get your degree in 20-months, attending one weekend a month.
The monthly intensive weekend schedule (Friday through Sunday) appeals to students who want to pursue an advanced education, yet choose to remain in the mainstream of the workforce.
Be part of a team.
Our students bring a wide variety of backgrounds- from banking to education- to the classroom and learn from one another’s experiences and viewpoints. Students develop skills to work effectively with others and to collaborate within complex organizational systems.
Become more effective immediately.
Our students find classroom learning directly applicable to the challenges they face in the workplace. Attend classes over the weekend and be more effective on Monday!
Get practical experience for your résumé.
Our management programs emphasize practical experience and focus on an individual’s career development. You design a practicum project in which you practice using the theories you’ve studied and the skills you’ve developed. You can fine tune your abilities, increase your effectiveness in the workplace, or chart a new career path.
Antioch’s M.S. in Management accommodates full- and part-time students. You begin the program in the October or April.
Program Introduction: The Gathering
Prior to the first weekend of the program, you attend an off-site retreat to build community among your peers in the Center for Creative Change.
Core Courses
The M.S. in Management is 66 credits and can be completed in seven quarters. You complete the following core courses during the first four quarters:
Communication Design
Critical Inquiry and Ways of Knowing
Global Pluralism
Systemic Thinking for a Changing World
Sustainability
Transformative Leadership and Change
Reflective Practicum Courses
Reflective Practicum 1: Simulation and
Case Study; Caucus
Reflective Practicum 2: Capstone Change Project
Specialization Courses
You complete the following courses during the last four quarters:
Leadership in Business and Organization Systems Inquiry
Finance: Stakeholders and the Bottom Line
Socially Responsible Marketing
Strategic Thinking and Planning
Four electives
Sample Elective Courses
Innovation and Creativity in Turbulent Times
Executive Coaching
Conflict Management
Economics and the Environment
Harnessing Human Diversity
Evoking Spirit at Work
Trauma and Healing in Organizations
Managing Change in a Changing Context
Globalization and its Discontents: The Political Economy of the 21st Century
Independent Studies
If you’re a manager or supervisor committed to making a meaningful difference in your organization and in
the lives of those you touch, then the
M.S. in Management may be for you. Graduates of this program become principled and effective managers who combine visionary leadership with
practical skills.
You look at management situations
from a systemic perspective and address human, organizational and community issues. You enhance your leadership skills and learn how to diagnose problems and intervene effectively with individuals and groups in organizations. You develop an ability to work in a rapidly changing, global business environment.
Coursework covers basic business disciplines – economics, finance, marketing, operations and strategy – and sharpens your skills in critical topics such as change management, creativity and innovation, communications, global pluralism and group dynamics.