The Master of Arts in Behavioral Leadership and Management is designed for individuals who need a more in-depth and comprehensive preparation for leadership than that provided in the Master of Science program. The Master of Arts program provides the student with knowledge and skills for leading individuals, groups and organizations. The program addresses the behavioral attributes and appropriate leadership skills for organizations as well as individuals. The student will be prepared to perform leadership responsibilities for industry, business, organizations or informal groups. 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 University’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.

Upon completion of the Master of Arts in Behavioral Leadership and Management Program, the graduate will have:

1. Knowledge and skills for leading individuals in church settings or in other groups and organizations;
2. The ability to perform leadership responsibilities for church, industry, business, or informal groups;
3. Become well-versed in a wide variety of leadership and management skills;
4. Learned emerging technologies in leadership;
5. Been prepared to teach on the college level; and
6. Learned ways to change behaviors within organizations.