NPM-610 Nonprofit Governance and Board Leadership
This course explores governance within contemporary nonprofit organizations. The course focuses on leadership dynamics from theoretical and practical perspectives. Students will explore salient internal and external environmental factors that influence behavior through the examination and analysis of best practices. The primary goal of this course is to provide a realistic understanding of the elements that both support and impede effective governance for nonprofits. The significance of strong leadership and governance practices is reinforced in the course's discussion of emerging trends within nonprofit entities.
Credits: 3
Delivery Methods: Online
Offered in Apr 2023
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MNP-550 Strategic Recruiting, Retention, and Succession Planning
Regardless of industry, business unit, or department, people are every organization's key source of competitive advantage. In the war for talent, organizations have two choices: develop human resources systems that work together to recruit, retain, and motivate staff, or lose their most valuable workers to organizations who do value and develop their employees. Not only is finding the right people a difficult and daunting task, but keeping those people is a significant challenge. An organization that not only finds but also keeps valued employees and provides an environment that develops and rewards employees can be termed an "employer of choice" An employer of choice responds to market conditions and continually adapts to meet the needs of the workforce. Becoming an Employer of Choice begins with a well-designed recruitment and retention strategy. This course will focus on the best practices of strategic planning, recruitment, evaluation and measurement, selection, retention, and development. Throughout course students will be introduced to successful recruitment and retention programs that can be adapted to any organization.
Credits: 3
Delivery Methods: Online
Offered in Jan 2023
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MPL-520 Program Analysis and Evaluation
This course is designed to introduce basic concepts of policy and program evaluation. These include needs assessment, program monitoring, stakeholder awareness and influence, and assessing effectiveness and efficiency. Students will examine quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research approaches. Social, political, and ethical contexts of evaluation studies will also be discussed.
Credits: 3
Delivery Methods: Online
Offered in Apr 2023
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