Designing Team-Based Organizations . This course focuses on the theory and practice of work teams in organizations, particularly white collar teams.
Many organizational psychologists consider work groups to be the building blocks of organizations.
New forms of work group design have been covered in stories from Fortune and Business Week in the past several years. Some experts present data that indicates that work groups transformed into work teams represent both the most common organizational redesign and the most effective. The work group is also the primary psycho-social environment for most employees, so it plays a critical role in their experience at work. Employee well-being and organizational effectiveness thus depend on the dynamics of the work group. This course will study those dynamics from both theoretical and practical perspectives.