Distance degree programs for Adults & Professionals.
Executive Leadership Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
Executive Leadership via distance learning
This program combines the major theories and practices in the world of business and leadership. It provides a wide perspective on enterprises and their transformations through numerous case studies and accounts from the managers and executives at leading companies. It contains capstone material that highlights the challenges facing the twenty-first-century managers.
Academic Supervisor : Charles R. Nichols
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Executive Leadership Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Executive Leadership.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Business & Economic Consulting - Business Administration - Coaching & Leadership - Conflict Resolution - Human Resources - Management Science - Organizational Communication - Organizational Psychology - Organizational Studies - Protocol & Etiquette .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - Executive Leadership Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Executive Leadership via distance learning = 36 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - Executive Leadership Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Executive Leadership via distance learning = 36 Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Management Science.
Master's Degree - Executive Leadership Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Executive Leadership via distance learning = 36 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Management Science. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Executive Leadership Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Executive Leadership via distance learning = 36 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Business & Media from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Management Science. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
BIU adapts each Distance Learning Higher Education degree program to the needs of each student. More info...
Executive Leadership Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...
Management Science
This course of management science studies problem solving and decision making in human organizations, with strong links to management, economics, business, engineering, consulting, and other fields. The goal of any effective management is the efficient allocation of scarce resources.
Academic Supervisor: Wellington Williams
Organizational Behavior
This course analyzes the impacts of behavioral issues found in the organizational setting. It provides an in-depth focus of past and current theories concerning the cause and effects of work motivation, attitude formation, and perceptions in different organizational settings, including those that are culturally diverse. The course also explores how personality theory can be applied to selection, placement, training, group processes, conflict, organizational behavior modification, and the individual and social bases for decision making.
Academic Supervisor: Jennifer Dustow
Human Resources
This course explains human resources management concepts and processes as they apply to managing individual and work-group behavior in organizations. It deals with organizational behavior topics such as leadership, motivation, and teamwork. It also considers diverse human resources strategies, personnel selection, performance evaluation, reward systems, and employee development.
Academic Supervisor: Charles R. Nichols
Employment Reward Strategies
This course examines the various systems used to evaluate employee productivity and performance. It includes job analysis, job descriptions, setting performance standards, designing appraisal feedback, administering performance appraisal, and rewards systems.
Academic Supervisor: Charles R. Nichols
Decision Making & Analysis
This course examines the major decisional areas to establish goals and determines strategies. It deals with the dynamic conditions of uncertainty and risk characterizing the environment of modern organizations. It emphasizes the analytical approaches for problem formulation and solution as well as decision implementation.
Academic Supervisor: Kao Kveng Hong
Working in Complex Systems
This course develops the theoretical foundation and intervention models of complex systems and it is based on the cognitive model, social learning principles, and general systems theory. These analytical models are applied to organizational case studies.
Academic Supervisor: Charles R. Nichols
Employee Dispute Resolution
This course introduces alternative dispute resolution processes including mediation, arbitration, and conflict avoidance. It shows the value of internal and external dispute resolution programs and how they affect the following areas: legal, economic, personnel, and image. It covers a variety of work-place conflicts and shows how to resolve them.
Academic Supervisor: Charles R. Nichols
Organizational Leadership
This course develops an understanding of oneself and of others as both individuals and group members. It examines individual coaching, group motivation and leadership, team building, and behavioral processes at the individual, group, and inter-group level. It shows the impact of the self on others and how to overcome the barriers that prevent organizational leadership.
Academic Supervisor: Charles R. Nichols
Business Administration & Management
This course reviews the nature of managerial economics, demand analysis and estimation, customer behavior, production analysis, estimation of cost, profit planning and control, pricing decisions, competition in different market structures, the economic role of government, investment, and financial policy. It deals with problem identification, problem solving, critical thinking, consulting, project management, and strategies for effective decision making.
Academic Supervisor: Kao Kveng Hong
Entrepreneurship Leadership
This course focuses on the aspects of leader-follower interaction, namely the effective use of power and influence, and the understanding of what motivates individual and group followers. It develops interpersonal communication skills that increase leader effectiveness in achieving work force results. It shows how to discover and manage your own strengths and weaknesses, and how to attract, recruit, and build up a talented team.
Academic Supervisor: Charles R. Nichols
Coaching & Executive Leadership
This course shows how to get the most from employees. Managers learn how to be more than just a boss and develop the skills and strategies to become more like a coach to their employees. It shows how to tap into the hidden strengths and talents of employees, to inspire peak performers to even greater levels of productivity, to confront inappropriate behavior, and turn problem employees into productive workers.
Academic Supervisor: Francisco Yuste Pausa
Multinational Management
This course deals with the managerial and strategic responses to the problems of international business organizations and operations. It explains the design and control of a multinational company structures and executives; and the adaptation of management systems and policies to different economic, sociocultural, and political environments.
Academic Supervisor: Kao Kveng Hong
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Executive Leadership Online via distance learning
Recommended Professional References.
Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
ABE - Association of Business Executives
ACPI - Association of Career Professionals International
AESC - Association of Executive Search Consultants
AFAEMME - Association of Organisations of Mediterranean Businesswomen
AGeCSO - Association pour la Gestion des Connaissances dans la Societé et les Organisations
AMA - American Management Association
AMCES - Asociación Española de Mentoring y Consultoría
APD - Asociación para el Progreso de la Dirección
ASAE - American Society of Association Executives
BMA - Business Management Association
CGC - Club Gestion des Connaissances
EGC - Association Extraction et Gestion des Connaissances
FREDLA - Family-Run Executive Director Leadership Association
IAKM - International Association for Knowledge Management
IAOM - International Association of Management
IKMS - Information and Knowledge Management Society
ISBEE - International Society of Business, Economics, and Ethics
ISOBL - International Society of Business Leaders
ISPI - International Society for Performance Improvement
IWWHS - International WHO'S WHO Historical Society
KMA - Knowledge Management Association
KMPro - Knowledge Management Professional Society
MRA - The Management Association
OAM - The Oxford Association of Managers
SBGC - Sociedade Brasileira de Gestão do Conhecimento
SJDM - Society for Judgment and Decision Making
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Admission requirements - Executive Leadership
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
7. Age: Check the admission requirements for each distance education degree program. More info...
Duration - Executive Leadership Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
Recognition - Executive Leadership Online via distance learning
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Faculty of Business & Media via distance learning
Executive Leadership Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
