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OD 521 Organization Development and Change (3)
Focuses on understanding, managing, and facilitating change in organizations. Emphasizes the use of diagnostic models and theories of organization development to identify organizational problems, plan interventions, and develop processes for facilitating planned organizational change. Offered spring semester
OD 523 Organization Development Issues and Trends: Executive Coaching and Consulting (3)
Focuses on leading-edge organization development trends, specifically executive coaching and consulting. Emphasis is on the skill and art of coaching executives in high-performance organizations. Provides approaches and application of dialogue, adult learning, change, and measurement. This course requires a high level of interaction and participation. It also requires practice outside the classroom and journal writing. Students learn to apply skills in leadership, team, and organizational renewal efforts. Offered spring semester. Prerequisite: OD 521. This course contains a significant amount of speech and oral presentations.
OD 524 Consulting Skills (3)
Enables student to function responsibly as novice consultant or mid-level practitioner, depending on each student’s entry-level knowledge and skills. Emphasis is placed on practical application of conceptual skills. Students learn to apply consulting skills and strategies to their own work situations. Course content focuses on current consulting theory and practice, building an effective client-consultant relationship, and applying skills and strategies. Offered fall semester.
OD 525 Organization Theory and Design (3)
Explores organizational theories and structures for increased efficiency and results. Provides basic approaches for the design and implementation of high-performance cultures, designs, internal systems, technology, innovation, control, goals, ethics, leadership, decision making, teams, and strategy. Offered fall semester.
OD 526 Advanced Facilitation Skills (3)
Provides a conceptual basis for, and extensive practical application of, group facilitation skills to be used in high-performance groups, teams, and organizations. See department chair for course offering schedule.