Leading Organizational Transformation   [Archived Catalog]
2016-2017 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Spring Addendum
   

ORG 7070 - Leading Organizational Transformation


This course describes how transformational organizational change can be conceptualized and the techniques, models and theories that support planning for and implementing a change process. It investigates how leaders who initiate and direct major organizational shifts can mobilize, focus, generate commitment, and implement new directions in an organization. The course combines theory, case material, models and accounts of how and why organizations change their cultures, purposes, and/or structures. Students will undertake a detailed analysis of an organizational change they have experienced, or one they have access to through interviews. 3 credit(s)