Today's leaders find they must continually realign their organizations to evolving strategic visions, missions, and goals critical to short-term performance. Simultaneously, they are faced with the complex task of adapting their organizations to rapidly changing competition for markets and resources, diverse workforce needs, government regulations, new technology, and a deteriorating environment. Organizational change involves a multi-disciplinary perspective and utilizes concepts and methods from such fields as management, sociology, and anthropology, organizational development, technology, psychology, and comparative economics.
Hawaii Pacific University's Master of Arts in Organizational Change (MA/OC) emphasizes the management, design, implementation, and application of such change methods as continuous improvement and performance management. Students learn how to design innovations for organizational culture change, as well as how to implement an actual program of change in an organization.
Certificate Programs:
The certificate programs are offered in both traditional, in-class or distance-learning formats. Our distance learning approach is based on multiple teaching methods. Our software, WEBCT, is supported by online discussions, conference calls, and other means that ensure the interactive advantages of traditional education remain part of the learning experience.
PhD Program:
Southern Cross University offers a Doctor of Philosophy in Organizational Change and Development. This unique program is linked, through an educational agreement, with the Organizational Change Program at Hawaii Pacific University.
