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2017-2018 Catalog and Handbook 
    
2017-2018 Catalog and Handbook [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PSY 640 - Organizational Development and Effectiveness (3 Credits)

Prerequisite(s): 9 credits of core courses
Organizational Development is the planned process of developing an organization to insure the optimum level of performance as measured by effectiveness, productivity and health. Organizational Development (OD) is achieved by facilitating change for individual employees, groups and teams, and the organization at large. Starting with an initial historical perspective of the field, we will explore the core organizational model of entry/contracting, diagnosis, feedback, implementation and evaluation. Working from this core model, we will examine the range of OD interventions used in the past and present. At the end of the course students are expected to be knowledgeable about the various paradigms within the field of OD as well as well prepared to apply the various approaches to assess organizations.