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This course teaches students to think strategically and systemically in order to design and lead complex transformational change in the face of uncertainty and ambiguity. Students are introduced to the latest thinking in neuroscience, complexity leadership, polarity management, and change leadership. It is strongly recommended that students have a basic understanding of leadership and management before taking this course.

This course is designed to help students think critically about practical questions related to human behavior and thought processes. The course will introduce students to an array of methodological tools psychologists use in their research – from the basics of scientific inquiry, ethical conduct, and controlled observation to co-relational, experimental, and applied approaches to research. Throughout, students will learn research methods within the context of classic and contemporary studies from diverse areas of psychology.

Consumer Behavior

Prepares students to administer and interpret psychological tests in organizational environments. Students will be exposed to the major psychological assessment tools used to measure organizational performance and effectiveness, as well as tools used for employee selection, placement and training. Students will be able to select tools to perform key I/O duties like job analysis, performance appraisal and feedback, team building, person-environment fit analysis, leadership training and team morale assessment. They also will be able to construct and validate assessment tools and perform data analysis using SPSS to diagnose organizational problems. This course fulfills the test publishers’ educational requirement to purchase testing materials.

Examines the structure, function, and performance of organizations, the impact of psychological and sociological variables on the behaviors of groups and their members, and explores how systematic organizational interventions are accomplished within complex human networks. Students will both learn the key relationships between organizational culture, behavior, and processes and learn how to use behavioral science to assess an organization’s current state and discover routes to its improvement.

This course highlights the theoretical and practical aspects of the field of executive coaching. Areas of emphasis include the recent growth of executive coaching as a discipline and its place among other employee development practices, attitudinal and behavioral approaches to the coaching process, the measurement of coaching outcomes, ethical considerations in coaching, similarities and differences with psychotherapy, and the skills of an executive coach.

This course introduces students to the action-research model on industrial/organizational psychology consulting to organizations and offers a step-by-step process to conduct successful consulting engagements. Core consulting processes such as entry, contracting, data-collection, feedback, action planning, and implementation will be reviewed. Additional topics include tactics for working with challenging clients, managing organizational politics, and typical career paths in consulting.

Examines the dynamics and structure of diversity in organizations and how initiatives to build and sustain competitive advantage. Emphasis will be placed on ways organizations integrate diversity into key processes to capture a ‘diversity dividend’ resulting in improved financial performance, customer loyalty, and employee engagement.

Explores professional conflict resolution and meditation as an emerging means of problem solving in family, industrial, environmental, and business law. Examines the skills and techniques necessary for conflict mediation. Students will examine theoretical frameworks and related ethical issues and learn conflict management and resolution skills.

HRM 302 Acquiring and Retaining Human Resources

HRM 306 Learning and Development

Introduces strategic analysis and design techniques from an integrated perspective. Addresses the roles that functions within an organization play in strategy formulation and implementation. Students will perform analysis and develop strategy in response to external and internal business environments. Examines the implications of strategy on the outcome of business entities.

Provides the framework for understanding the critical impact of the international, legal, political, social, environmental and cultural roles played by the business enterprise in conducting its business. Focuses on the obligations of the individual managers and the corporation as a whole.

Introduces the principles and techniques of directing and controlling resources for a fixed-term project established for the accomplishment of specific goals and objectives, including issues pertaining to engineering, construction and large-systems development projects. Class material will be integrated with the information in the PMI®’s A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK®).

Presents all the steps in finding and keeping the workforce, including: planning for and recruiting HR, selecting workers and filling jobs, managing employees’ careers, and understanding what motivates people to excel at their work.

Teaches students to link learning to organizational needs, how to assess the need for learning and selecting the appropriate system for delivering and managing learning. Students will learn how to create and execute learning strategies and programs, evaluate development needs for employees and design and deliver training.