The Master of Science in Performance Improvement (MSPI) is offered by Grantham University to students seeking advanced skills in organizational resource management. The program is essentially about preparing students to handle organizational challenges primarily through performance improvement strategies. Students are also trained to be adept at organization analysis and strategy generation for maximized performance and solution implementation. It is a 36-credit hour degree program offered in the online format. The program is backed up by the university’s accreditation by the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council.

Graduates are expected to possess specific skills after successful completion of the program. These include the ability to evaluate organizational and human performance issues; integrate performance improvements based on business needs; develop strategies using prepared proposals that can serve to influence decisions of stakeholders; facilitate performance improvement by determining viable interventions and designs and developing intervention products; provide performance improvement solutions that are measured, revised ,organized and managed; and discern professionalism for performance improvement consulting. Employment opportunities are typically found in the fields of Human Resources, Training and Development, Transformational Services, and Organizational Development.

Required courses include Introduction to Organizational and Human Performance, Organizational Behavior, Principles of Human Performance Technology, Learning and Performance, Organizational Behavior, Performance Consulting and Personal Communication, Measurement and Assessment Strategies, Strategic Human Resource Management, Learning Theories and Technology, Knowledge/Learn and Enterprise System, Performance Analysis, Evaluating Results and Benefits and the Capstone Performance Project. Applicants must posses a bachelor’s degree with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 from an accredited institution.