Course may be repeated for credit if content differs. Graduate students may apply a maximum of 3 credit hours of these seminars as electives to meet the credit-hour requirements for graduation. This course may not be completed by directed study. This course enables the student to understand how human resources development professionals train individuals and develop the potentials of individuals within the workplace. They learn how appropriate training and development programs can increase the productivity of individuals, groups, and organizations.
Students participate in training and development problem solving.
The course affords students opportunities to explore a variety of personal and organizational methods of enhancing communication. This course reviews the current theories of organization development and organizational change. Students explore the methods of organizational research and analysis in order to plan methods of OD intervention. The course also investigates existing OD systems and strategies. Case study methods are used in this course.