Students design and implement teaching strategies, such as concept attainment, group investigation, and creative thinking. Focus on how to plan and conduct systematic evaluations of HRD efforts, including the choice, development, and use of various tools for measuring individual, group, and organizational change. Students gather data and analyze key topics associated with areas such as globalization, diversity in the workplace, organizational development, and ethics. HRD implications of these tools, with an emphasis on building the HR system. Meeting the human needs in organizations, while improving performance and productivity.
Students undertake a consulting project in an organization.
Schwandt Learning in an organizational context. Processes through which the organization as a system learns, unlearns, changes, and disseminates information. Organizational learning theories address the processes and barriers of gathering, using, developing, and retaining knowledge in organizations. An in-depth project is completed under the guidance of a faculty member. The course is arranged individually with an instructor.