The new workplace requires new solutions. In this environment, training that is well planned, presented, and meets organization needs takes on a critical strategic role. This course is aimed at managers team leaders, HR specialists, and those involved in the continuous, self-directed, formal and informal learning needed to help their organizations improve their business success. Focuses on the development of skills required to assess corporate culture in terms of such constitute parts as ritual, symbol, structure, language and identity. Also included are a history of the study of corporate culture, an analysis of leadership styles and communication patterns in the workplace, an overview of strategies for managing corporate and organizational change and an orientation to leadership styles appropriate to the successful manipulation of cultural elements.
Emphasis is both on individual and interactive learning processes.
Teaching strategies include case studies, experience logs, organization assessment inventories, and assigned readings. Students establish a strong framework of group theory through topics that include current group and team theory research, individual functions in a team and team leadership, mission and global development, evaluating team effectiveness, negotiating persuasion and conflict resolution. This course is highly interactive, with projects that require the student to use the theory in constructing and observing cross-functional work teams, self directed teams and integrated work teams. Learning takes place through lectures, case studies, simulations and group projects that develop strong team skills and reinforce team theory. Solving An interdisciplinary approach to the generation and evaluation of ideas and solutions.