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Nov 23, 2024
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HOD-764AO Advanced Research Module: Appreciative Organizations2, 4, 6, or 8 semester credits
Advanced studies and applied research projects, designed to develop skills in specific research methodologies and approaches. All the advanced research modules numbered 764XX are designed to enable students to learn a particular research method in depth. Most approaches to understanding organizations are embedded in a “problem solving” paradigm. This deficiency model of organizations calls for the development of techniques and tools to accurately identify and diagnose problems. In contrast to this clinical focus, appreciative inquiry focuses on what works in an organization. By exploring events when people are at their best, appreciative inquiry identifies the core values and finds ways to build on them to enhance organizational sustainability. This seminar will introduce students to the basic tenets of Appreciative Inquiry and help them gain the experience of using it in an organizational setting which they may undertake after the summer session. Students will work in small teams (or as individuals if teaming is not feasible) with the goal of learning to function as consultants to a selected list of organizations. The anticipation is that through the project work you will acquire the competencies for diagnosing and analyzing organizations using appreciative inquiry and for becoming skillful facilitators (change agents) of organization development.
Pre-requisites: HOD-722A , HOD-722B
Delivery Method: Online
Grading Default: Letter
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