Organizational Administration and Leadership

The programs of the Business and Organizational Studies Division prepare students for positions of responsibility in administration, management, and leadership in businesses and organizations of today and tomorrow. From guiding activities and decisions of a modern business, to designing computer support systems for a complex organization, to providing leadership in community and non-profit organizations, the contemporary management scene is a fast-paced and exciting realm. Comprehensive study through the programs of the division develops students’ skills to meet challenges such as these.

A student in this division may select studies that lead to an Associate or Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, a Bachelor of Arts in Organizational Administration and Leadership, Human Resource Management, Sport Management, Health Care Administration, Computer Information Systems Management (the Management Degrees are available in the School for Career Development only), and/or an Associate of Arts in Computer Information Systems. Additionally, students may choose concentrations in accounting or equine business. Finally, for students majoring in other fields of study, a minor in Business Administration is available.

All graduates of Business Division will achieve an appropriate foundation of skills and knowledge in the following areas:

1. Students will acquire a comprehensive management approach that enables them to perceive, assess, and make competent decisions in business and organizational situations.
2. Students will understand the complexity of interpersonal relationships in a business and possess communication skills to motivate, support, coordinate, and initiate action.
3. Students will be able to analyze financial conditions of a business and utilize accounting, economic, and financial principles and managerial judgment to develop plans and solve problems.
4. Students will apply, interpret, and present mathematical analysis to evaluate operational decisions.
5. Students will understand the requirements of human resource management and hold an appreciation of employees as the major asset of a business.
6. Students will understand the need to facilitate the efficient transfer of goods, services, and ideas from providers to consumers in a manner that satisfies the goals of provider and consumer.
7. Students will possess a level of computer information system knowledge that enables them to adapt to a business’ electronic systems and understand the need to keep abreast of changing technologies throughout a business.
8. Students will be familiar with the implications of an ever-changing work environment and the forces stemming from all aspects of our society. Furthermore, our students will accept a responsibility to enhance the interests of an organization’s stakeholders with whom they are associated while respecting the rights of the community at-large.
9. Students will possess a core of ethical standards that guides and directs decision-making and business behavior according to a high level of personal integrity.

In establishing these outcomes and adapting them over time, the Midway College Business Division commits its resources to anticipating and responding to the needs of our students, modern businesses and organizations, and society at-large.

Bachelor of Arts Degree Major in Organizational Administration and Leadership
(Available through the School for Career Development
and Midway College Online )

     The Bachelor of Arts degree with a major in Organizational Administration and Leadership has been developed to meet the educational needs of non-traditional students returning to college to complete a degree at times convenient to their busy schedules. This unique program features cohort-based instruction aimed at individuals over 23 years of age who have at least two years of college credit.

     The student typically will have completed 40-60 credit hours of college credit before commencement of professional course work. Exceptions to these criteria are made on a case by case basis as judged by a program admissions committee. The modular sequence of the upper-level courses recognize the needs and characteristics of adult learners while emphasizing themes such as problem solving, critical thinking, self-analysis, communication and ethical decision making.

Note: The prerequisite structure for these courses will be met by the appropriate 300 level OAL course corresponding to the current BA prerequisite listing in consultation with the student's academic advisor. OAL students wishing to take this minor must take MA 140, College Algebra as a prerequisite for MA 175.

Courses for the major require a grade of "C" or better.