GB 6065 - Organizational Dynamics

This course is designed to provide students with competency in organization dynamics and covers recent developments in the field of organizational development. It includes a history of the field, a review of core components and interventions of OD, and newer areas such as transformational leadership, transformational change and development, appreciative inquiry, multi-level strategic change, and global impact. It is a study of the issues, theories, and methodologies associated with organizational development and the management of change, with a major emphasis on organizational culture and organizational change processes. Topics also include diagnostic process, intervention strategies, and overcoming resistance to change. Techniques such as goal-setting, team-development procedures, productivity and strategy interventions, and interpersonal change models necessary to explore in graduate level studies in business are examined.

3 Credits