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Apr 19, 2024
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ODL-669 Organizational Development: Origins, Evolution, and Current Practices4 semester credits
This course provides a history and overview of the field of organizational development, including the current and projected state-of-the-art. It explores the work of key theorists and contributors to the field of organizational development. The course will identify the basic values, principles, theories, and models for understanding how and why organizations develop, behave and change in the ways that they do, and the practices for leading and managing change at the individual, group and system levels. Foundational concepts, terminology and methodologies needed to understand, design and evaluate applied organizational development interventions will be explored.
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
Learning Outcome(s):
Students will be able to:
- Trace the development of the field of OD, including its primary values, theories, models, and methodologies.
- Recognize the role of OD as a process of fundamental change in an organization’s culture
- Become familiar with a broad array of leading edge approaches to organizational intervention.
- Discern more and less effective approaches to organizational interventions and what contributed to either outcome.
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