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3.00 Credits
This course will cover the challenges of creating and sustaining wellness in the workplace. The course will examine health promotion models and preventative management techniques for planning, implementing, and evaluating worksite wellness programs and interventions. The underlying premise of the course is that improving the quality of health of the individual and the organization involves changing organizational systems as well as people's attitudes and behaviors.
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3.00 Credits
This course is the capstone for the Organizational Dynamics Fusion program and is designed to provide a foundation in the application of research methods in organizational settings. As a project-focused course, students will construct a high quality, applied research project that can be used to inform organizational policy and/or decision making. This course is appropriate for students studying organizational dynamics or other related fields and seeking greater understanding of applied organizational research. Examples of some of the topics to be covered in this course are: the philosophical basis of science - deciphering truth from fiction; organizational research techniques and tools; construction and implementation of organizational surveys; construction and implementation of organizational focus group research practices; quantitative versus qualitative research; report writing; research-based decision making, etc.
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3.00 Credits
General patterns of beliefs, expectations, and values that influence workplace cultural behavior will be discussed. Organizational cultural behavior will be presented as the cognitive framework that consists of assumptions and values that are shared by the organization members. Issues of diversity and multiculturalism will be included.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to explore the prevailing theoretical perspectives that guide the behavior of humans and the organizational systems in which they participate. The practical knowledge and skills necessary to create and lead high performance organizations are examined.
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3.00 Credits
This course reviews the multifaceted concept of justice and the variety of questions that are raised in organizational settings. Fairness is discussed in the context of organizational justice. Ethical workplace behavior and social responsibility of organizations will be reviewed. Students will develop and resolve ethical dilemmas of the workplace that affect individual and group values.
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3.00 Credits
The learning objectives of this course encompass the broad views of conflict and related social and professional interactions. The materials and assignments will emphasize both one's conscious use of self and analysis of others' feelings and behaviors in dealing with conflict and its dimensions. This study will include power, emotions, conflict styles, and negotiation skills.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides ''hands-on'' training and experience in acting as a neutral third-party mediator to facilitate negotiations between and among disputing individuals, groups, and organizations. The course makes extensive use of self-assessment instruments, role-playing, simulations, analyses, feedback, and other participative methods to explore one's conscious use of self in behaving in effective ways to manage conflict. Topics include mediation and negotiation theory, integrative negotiations, the role and responsibilities of the mediator, stages of the mediation process, framing issues and supporting negotiation, working toward an agreement, and related topics including dealing with impasse, handling emotions, mediator ethics, getting past bias, cultural differences, trauma-informed approaches, apology, power, confidentiality, and assessing outcomes.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the theory, range, expression, amelioration, and scope of interventions regarding types of workplace related conflicts including interpersonal, group/team, departmental, organizational, interorganizational, and between the organization and its environment (including stakeholders, funders, unions, customers, competitors, and the public). Topics include conducting a "Conflict Audit"; expression of conflict; culture of conflict; architecture, marketing, and implementing conflict interventions; and evaluation of conflict management initiatives.
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3.00 Credits
This introductory course challenges students with the question: "Why do you think the way you do?" It gives practical consideration to overcoming thinking errors, developing ethical thought, and applying career-specific principles of effective critical thinking to real-life situations.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on the issue of ethical behavior in contemporary life. How does one determine what conduct is right? How should one behave toward other people? Is there a "good life" for humans? How does one decide on the moral correctness of social issues? To address these questions, this course will challenge students to move beyond ethical relativism and consider more principled approaches to moral reasoning with the goal of improving their ability to make real-life, moral decisions. Students will gain broad exposure to major ethical philosophies and critically examine and compare these and other ethics-related influences, including religion, in the context of relevant contemporary issues.
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