Leading Organizational Change

Catalog description

This course is designed to prepare students to lead organizational change efforts directed at improving organizational functioning and quality of work life. A general framework of planed change combined with the organizational development perspective of leading change will be used to introduce students to change facilitation tools and techniques. Using case studies, students will design change interventions and change management strategies using group simulations, demonstrating change agent competencies in the areas of systems thinking, action research m consultation skills, project management, and strategic visioning. Awareness of the empirical evidence underlying the strategic, techno-structural, human resource, and human process change strategies will be identified.