Program Chair- Dr. Bill Bowles, wbowles@pbu.edu
Organizations
and their leaders serve a vital function in the world.
Churches, parachurch organizations, social service agencies,
businesses and hospitals meet the needs of people by providing
a variety of services and products.
Although each of these organizations has a specialized function,
unique culture and diverse resources, they also have a significant
number of similarities including complex human and political
dynamics, diverse values and goals and specialized technologies
and skills.  As
the twenty-first century progresses, the complexity of these
organizations is rapidly increasing. Christians in positions
of leadership need to acquire the skills required to work
in collaboration with diverse groups of people, create a healthy
and productive environment and cultivate transformational
change which leads to long term viability and effectiveness.
This program is designed for professionals who desire to
better understand the dynamics of the organizational environments
in which they are involved, and who value collaboration with
and insight from experienced peers. This program recognizes
that all adult students possess valuable insight and experience
and have something to contribute to others as well as something
to learn from others. These students are provided with an
environment that encourages reflection, innovation, dialogue,
interdependency and skill development.
The purpose of the
Organizational Leadership Program is to contribute to the
development of professionally effective and relationally healthy
Christian leaders and organizations locally, regionally, and
internationally.
This program is based on several values:
1. Excellence. The desire to manifest excellence,
resulting in quality instruction, professional atmosphere
and a faculty of skilled practitioners.
2. God's Truth. The belief that all truth is
God's truth, resulting in a commitment to the life principles
revealed in the Bible and other truths discovered through
our God-given capacities to inquire and learn.
 3. Stewardship. The belief that leadership is a function of stewardship rather
than ownership and both leadership and followership are equally
important in organizational effectiveness.
4. Personal Reflection. To cultivate an environment
that stimulates learners to engage in personal reflection,
resulting in a better understanding of who people are, why
they act as they do and where they can grow.
5. Action Learning. To encourage action learning,
resulting in a life long journey of acquiring and applying
knowledge in one's personal and professional lives.
6. Respect. To demonstrate respect for all
people, resulting in the realization that people of differing
cultures, races and perspectives have much to contribute to
each other.
7. Interdependency. To model interdependency
between learners and faculty, resulting in the sharing of
ideas and testing of assumptions and perceptions.
8. Integrity. Commitment to integrity
in all behavior, resulting in honest communication and genuine
trust.
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