Bachelor of Science in Organizational Behavior and Leadership

Administrative Office - San Francisco

415-422-2592

Program Director: Richard Stackman, Ph.D.

Associate Director: Bonnie Shaw, M.A.

The Organizational Behavior and Leadership (OBL) major will prepare you to assume leadership roles essential to meeting the challenges and uncertainty that confront today's organizations. The OBL program is structured to equip you with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and tools that will allow you to facilitate both your success and the success of the organizations where you serve. The curriculum presents theoretical frameworks and practical applications for exploring and explaining human behavior in the workplace, providing a broad perspective that allows students to go beyond their own accepted ways of interacting and working with others. Through classroom emphasis on critical thinking and independent judgment, students learn to be active investigators of organizational life as they develop the conceptual and problem-solving skills that an organizational leader needs to plan, organize, and lead a group or an entire organization. The OBL Program is offered in both 15- and 23-month formats.

The OBL program is offered in both 15- and 23-month formats. Please visit www.cps.usfca.edu/prospective/obl for detailed information.

Program Goals

• 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.
• Analyze and synthesize how cognitive, behavioral, and emotional outcomes contribute to the sustainability of organizations.
• Demonstrate competence in relevant skills appropriate to effective organizational behavior professionals.
• Apply concurrently organizational behavior theory to practice in the classroom, organization, and society.
• Work effectively with and lead diverse individuals and groups through a broad, interdisciplinary liberal arts foundation.

Program Requirements

Students are required to complete the 37 semester units of credit included in the undergraduate Organizational Behavior and Leadership program. Computer access and proficiency, including use of the Internet, e-mail, and CD-Roms, are requirements for this program.

The following are required courses for the major:

• PSIS - 307 Experience and Critical Writing
• PSIS - 308 Advanced Expository Writing
• PSIS - 304 Social Ethics
• PSIS - 300 The Critical Thinking Seminar
• OB - 319 Foundations of Organizational Behavior
• OB - 335 Organizations in Context
• OB - 351 Organizational Research and Analysis
• OB - 321 Organizational Communication
• OB - 322 Organizational Leadership
• OB - 336 Topics in Organizational Behavior (online offering)
• OB - 324 Group Process and Decision-Making
• OB - 323 Leading Change in Organizations
• OB - 361 Financial Analysis for Costing Organizational Outcomes

Please see Organizational Behavior & Leadership Interdisciplinary Studies Course Descriptions.

Please see Organizational Behavior and Leadership Course Descriptions.

Degree Requirements

• Complete 128 semester units of credit.
• Complete the Organizational Behavior and Leadership major requirements.
• Satisfy the Core Curriculum Requirements.
• Achieve a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0.

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of the Bachelor of Science in Organizational Behavior and Leadership, a graduate will have acquired the ability to:

• Apply the theory and research of organizational behavior to practice.
• Relate structure, context and communication patterns to organizations to the development of social and intellectual capital.
• Appreciate the role of analytical and research methods in the systematic study of organizational problems and issues.
• Choose communication strategies that best fit emerging organizational challenges.
• Develop as authentic leaders who know who they are, know what they value, and act on their values and beliefs while linking the theories of leadership to systems and organizational learning.
• Understand the characteristics of effective and ineffective group and team dynamics.
• Recognize the complexity of leading successful change initiatives.
• Reconcile the financial tradeoffs in the pursuit of desired organizational outcomes through the use of financial analysis and budgeting.