Organization Development Information

Programs in Organization Development at the Graduate School of Management prepare professionals to successfully lead learning and change initiatives in organizations. Focusing on the role of the change-agent, the program enables students to master the behavioral, organizational, and diagnostic knowledge and skills required to facilitate interventions that will bring about growth and development. Students will become adept as internal or external consultants to organizations, and will be able to identify the need for change, as well as effectively plan, implement, and institutionalize strategic, techno-structural, human process, and programmatic change efforts in response to the turbulence of a dynamic market and economy that necessitates on-going learning and transformation in order to survive.

Programs in Organization Development

An emphasis in Organization Development is offered for the following programs:

Master of Business Administration
MBA Degree Completion
Graduate Certificates

Courses in Organization Development

To receive the MBA concentration in Organization Development designation on their transcript students must complete MANA 7380 and 3 Organization Development electives. *Courses with prerequisites.

MANA 7367 Training and Employee Development*
MANA 7369 Strategic Human Resource Management*
MANA 7380 Organization Development*
MANA 7385 Managing Complex Organizations*
MANA 7387 Power, Influence, and Leadership*
MANA 8360 SPTP: Human Resource and Organization Development

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