Course description:
This course focuses on a historical perspective both the theory and work of organization development that will greatly inform their practice. It discusses reports and research that moved the field ahead. The course pinpoint an appreciation of the foresight the field's founders and innovators had regarding organization development’s possibilities and usefulness. This module confer benefit from a wealth of innovative thinking as relevant today as when originally published, thinking that will continue to impact the practice of organization development for many years to come.
Course Aims:
Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
- Explores the ways in which organizations can be designed in order to achieve their objectives.
- Understand modern classical organization theory.
- Get a more in-depth knowledge of organizations and organizational analysis.
Course outcomes:
By the successful completion of this unit, students will be able to:
- Account for the major perspectives within organization theory.
- Account for the historical development of thoughts in the field of modern organization theory.
- Account for some of the most important texts and authors of the field.
- Criticize theories on organization theory.
- Describe important issues within the field and be able to put it in relation to related theoretical fields.
- Describe important issues within the field and be able to discuss the practical implications in organizations today of the issue at hand.