Course Catalog
Organizational Design & Implementation
94-700
Units: 6
Description
This course is designed to improve your effectiveness as an organizational member and leader by introducing you to a variety of frameworks and tools that you can leverage in your own work. This course will draw from over a century of research in the areas of organizational behavior, psychology, economics, sociology, and more to provide an evidence-based foundation of knowledge about how people, teams and organizations function. The course will cover this content via readings, videos/podcasts, case analyses, in-class exercises, and class discussions.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students will be better able to:
- make better decisions;
- design, launch, and lead a team;
- navigate conflict, diagnose power, and influence others;
- identify and use organizational structures to support motivation and coordination;
- map and use informal networks; manage their own networks;
- recognize culture and adapt to different contexts; and
- implement change.
Prerequisites Description
None