Vanessa is a 24-year-old stay-at-home mom, wife, military spouse, and veteran. She started her online education while she was still in the Navy. After receiving an honorable discharge, getting married, and having two beautiful girls in two years, she is still going strong with her education at Ashford University. She is currently doubling up on classes with hopes to attend graduation December 2009 with a Bachelor's in Business Administration.
So this class was Organizational Behavior, which to be quite honest I had no idea what that meant and was just grateful that it didn't involve a lot of math but the course really has some (a lot actually) real world value to it.
Organizational Behavior is really a quasi psychology class mixed with a management class thrown in with some leadership training. It's really neat to see a scientific application of management and leadership skills through the eyes of psychology. Being a Criminal Justice undergrad, this kind of put me in home territory because of the amount of psychology involved in my BS degree. It was almost a how to guide on using a lot of the skills, training and education in human psychology that I have developed over the years into an organizational application. I feel like a lot (if not all) of my undergrad psychology was focused on individual behavior and it was exciting to see how psychology gets applied to group behavior, kind of like the next logical step from my previous training.
So if anyone with an undergraduate degree in Criminal Justice does not think that they have anything to bring to the private workplace or to a Business graduate program, they need look no further than Organizational Behavior as a validation of existing skills. Of course Organizational Behavior is not all psychology, but there is enough of it for those making the transition from Criminal Justice thinking to Business thinking more subtle and smooth.
Overall I have really enjoyed this course and will be wrapping it up this week (I'll report on that when completed). Now, on to that final paper!
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About Cajun
Cajun is 31-years-old and currently employed as a Project Analyst for an Information Technology department at a major financial firm. He has recently changed careers after spending 7 years in Federal Law enforcement of which he spent 5 years as a supervisor. His management experience combined with the MBA he finished in October, 2008 allowed for a career change even in the face of these uncertain economic times.
Cajun was introduced to the concept of distance education while working full-time as a law enforcement officer with a demanding and unpredictable schedule, obtaining an Associate of Science degree in Criminal Justice from
Ashworth College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice from Southwestern College of Winfield, KS graduating Magna Cum Laude and a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in Organizational Leadership from
Ashford University. To further his new career Cajun will be working towards a Master of Science in Management of Information Systems with an emphasis in Project Management from
Bellevue University.