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3.00 Credits
This course is the second of two courses designed to prepare students to conduct dissertation research that is focused on a problem of practice and possible interventions that can be implemented and evaluated to determine if desired outcomes have been achieved. Students will continue to receive on-going assistance in developing the framework for their applied dissertation research project, known as a dissertation in practice.
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3.00 Credits
In order for any change or innovation to take flight it must create value for others, it must be something that is wanted or needed by individuals or organizations. This course requires students to bring both critical and creative thinking to bear in sensing and responding to changes in the environment that create opportunities for improvement and/or innovation. The success of any system/process improvement or innovation is determined by its adoption and sustained use, so the factors that influence and hinder the change/innovation adoption process are also explored. Phenomena such as open innovation and crowd sourcing will be explored, as well as other keys to innovation in a networked world.
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3.00 Credits
Leadership is a communicative art. Whether it be exciting others about a vision for the organization's future, exhorting the troops to action, telling a story to better connect with others, listening with an open heart and mind, persuading a resistant public, or relating with a group of diverse stakeholders, leadership requires excellent communication skills. This course engages students in an array of learning activities designed to enhance and fine-tune the communication skills of those who wish to lead artfully with integrity, empathy and power. Authentic communication is at the heart of an effective leader's ability to empathize, inspire, engage, motivate, resolve conflicts, persuade, and influence others. Technologies play an ever-changing role in how we communicate with stakeholders both within and outside the organization, so the course will also consider how leaders can use technologies to good advantage in communicating with stakeholders.
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3.00 Credits
Increasingly employee engagement and work satisfaction are seen as keys to employee retention and organizational productivity and innovation. This course explores the latest research on employee engagement and workplace satisfaction, as well as the strategic value of employee engagement programs in optimizing performance, increasing organizational loyalty and citizenship, and generating organizational innovation. Engagement issues are considered from both the organization and individual employee perspectives. The measurement of employee engagement and workplace satisfaction is also covered in the course.
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3.00 Credits
Those responsible for leading learning must understand the business of the organization and how financial concerns shape organization decisions. This course provides an in-depth examination of how organizational learning fits into the strategic planning of the organization and its future. It focuses on the organizational mission as well as the environment in which the organization operates. Students examine the social, political, economic, legal and technology forces (business and environmental surveillance) that may impact an organization's mission and results and use that information to generate new strategies for learning that support the future growth and development of the organization.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses specifically on the ethical issues that can arise as workplace learning and human resource professionals work to foster greater learning, collaboration, knowledge sharing and innovation in an organizational context. Issues like intellectual property rights, employee surveillance, privacy, social networking while at work, talent development and employee loyalty, freedom of expression, competing values will be explored from a learning perspective.
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3.00 Credits
Optimizing learning opportunities and activities for all learners is at the heart of universal design for learning. Students focus on how the universal design principles apply to developing and implementing workplace learning goals, methods, materials and delivery. Students are encouraged to use their creativity in thinking about how to provide multiple means of what is to be learned and assessing the effectiveness of these multiple opportunities for learning.
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3.00 Credits
Workplace learners are adults who are very diverse in their growth and development needs, as well as their previous learning experiences. This course focuses on adult development theory and andragogy and how these theories can inform workplace learning design and implementation for a diverse population. The role of work in adults' lives will be explored along with the importance of being an adult lifelong learner to ensure workforce value. Attention will be focused on the art of facilitating adult learning in both face-to-face and technology-mediated learning options.
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3.00 Credits
Those responsible for leading or managing the talent development function in organizations must be aware of how the available workforce is changing in terms of demographics and the knowledge, attitudes, behaviors and skills sets they bring to the workplace. After learning how to gauge the critical competencies needed by the organization's workforce and leadership, students learn how to design and implement learning opportunities for talent and leadership development.
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3.00 Credits
Workplace diversity is both a valued and challenging fact of today's organizational life. Diversity enriches the resource base of the organization while creating needs to acknowledge, understand and embrace the differences that occur due to race, ethnicity, culture, socioeconomic background, gender, sexual orientation, disability, life experience, and veteran status. This course focuses on how organizations can create experientially based learning opportunities that will enhance employees' abilities to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment. The course develops the knowledge and skills necessary for designing, implementing and evaluating diversity initiatives that foster equity, inclusion and effective work relationships among all organizational members.
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