Organizational Development

Catalog description

This course focuses on planning for organizational change with emphasis on workforce engagement. Students are introduced to contemporary thinking in organization development and change theory, concepts, and applications. Students will learn the process of planning for change through optimizing an organization’s architecture. The course emphasizes a process for organization query through collecting and analyzing data, diagnosing workflows, and changing work group behavior. Students will learn to design and implement work group interventions for leading and managing change.