ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICT AND COOPERATION

Catalog description

(Slashed with PACS 70004 ) This course examines organizational conflict, cooperation and partnership. Whether volunteering with a community-based organization, managing a team in a highly bureaucratized institution, joining a student group or organizing a coalition, navigating organizational dynamics (culture) and building and managing collaborations and partnerships are challenging tasks that require understanding differences, coping with power relations and transforming conflicts. Throughout this course, students explore types of organizational interactions, nature and source of organizational conflict, organizational culture and collaboration, power dynamics, decision making and problem solving in organizations.