Through the down-sizing, re-engineering, and global competitive forces of recent years, today's organizations have fewer professionals who carry a heavier workload than in previous decades. Likewise, the extremely tight labor market in today's organizations must provide a work environment and benefits designed to keep its most productive employees or lose them to other organizations, or worse, competitors. As a result of this changing workplace, today's management professionals must be well versed in a wide variety of management skills that include team building, leadership development, conflict resolution, negotiations, diversity issues, productivity improvement strategies, planning, organizational development and change, and creative and efficient use of emerging technologies. Equally important, in keeping with Amridge's Christian heritage, these skills are provided in a context of ethical and moral approaches that are so badly needed in today's society and business world. The Master of Arts in Behavioral Leadership and Management is specially designed to provide our graduates with these critical skills and knowledge that will help them in an organization in today's competitive workplace.