Course Description
This course empowers students as internal agents or external consultants to examine an organization’s existing culture and its capacity for change. The critical question is, “How do we make sense of what happens in our organizations in view of social discourses and system dynamics?” Working with an organization, students use a discursive lens of Four-Frames (structural, human resource, political and symbolic) to “read” how employees see intergroup and organizational dynamics at work. Building on this “reframing” work as a base, students interview managers to explore how design factors, such as strategic, structural and process components align to impact organizational performance. Students weight configuration trade-offs related to designed change. To conclude the course, students reflect on the value of work from a Spirit-empowered perspective.
Course Outcomes
- Develop a personal leadership development plan based on the results of a workplace behavior profile.
- Apply the Competing Values Framework to yourself individually, your department and your organization to make recommendations.
- Develop a manager’s guide to developing healthy and effective teams.
- Apply the major theories of organizational behavior into a manager’s guide for organizational behavior for your organization.
- Create a plan for organizational cultural change to improve organizational health based on the competing values framework and principles of organizational behavior.
DOLI Degree Program Outcomes
Degree outcomes are the overall skills and knowledge we expect you will have after successfully completing a degree program at City Vision University. This course supports the following program outcomes, marked with an (I) for Introduce, (D) for Develop and an (M) for Mastery. After completing the degree, you will be able to do the following in each of the listed domains:
- Research methods. Apply action research methods to practical research topics in the field.
- Diffusion of Innovation. Utilize technology and relational networking to help diffuse innovations within a community of practice.
- Values Alignment. To develop a theological vision and to align your organization’s strategy, culture and systems with that vision to avoid secularization and mission drift.
- Strategy. To develop a synthesis to integrate a wide range of business skills into a strategic plan for starting or growing an organization. (D)
- Social Entrepreneurship. Develop strategies and plans to effectively use technology and innovation to achieve organizational goals.
- Action Research Project. Synthesize action research with theory and practice to solve a practical challenge facing your organization and/or the larger field.
Concentration Outcomes
- 7a. Executive Leadership & Fundraising. Develop and implement plans to grow an organization in its impact, financial health and relational health. (M)
- 7b. Nonprofit Program Leadership & Social Entrepreneurship. Improve the effectiveness of nonprofit programs by implementing best practices.
- 7c. Education Leadership and Innovation. Apply disruptive and continuous innovation principles to designing courses and programs to provide radically affordable and practical online education.
- 7d. Organizational Culture and Change Management. Develop and implement plans to improve organizational health and adapt to change. (M)
- 7e. Trauma-Informed Counseling Management. Develop and implement plans to establish trauma-informed culture of health throughout an organization. (M)
Broad Institutional Doctoral Outcomes
- I1. Knowledge (Head). Apply a wide range of tools to help solve society’s great problems by shifting from a single lens/tool/discipline to a multiple lens, multifaceted Biblical understanding of reality. (D)
- I2. Skills (Hands). Develop the skills you need for the next position in your development as a leader by shifting from mastery & understanding of a division in an organization to a comprehensive systemic mastery/understanding needed to lead across the organization. (D)
- I3. Attitudes/Character (Heart). Develop the character and discipline needed to step into greater leadership roles by losing the bias of your old position to gain broader perspective and intellectual humility needed to accelerate your commitment to lifelong learning.
Syllabus
Course Materials & Tuition
| Cameron, K. S., Quinn, R. E., DeGraff, J., & Thakor, A. V. (2022). Competing values leadership: Creating value in organizations (3rd edition.). Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar. ISBN #978-1800888968 | $42.00 |
| Griffin, R. W., Phillips, J. M., & Gully, S. M. (2017). Organizational Behavior: Managing People and Organizations (12th edition.). Boston, MA: Cengage. ISBN: 9781305501393 | $97.00 |
| Tuition | $ |
| Total Cost of Course: | $ |