Team Development and Collaborative Systems   [Archived Catalog]
2016-2017 Academic Catalog and Student Handbook with Spring Addendum
   

ORG 7072 - Team Development and Collaborative Systems


This course recognizes the importance and challenge of teamwork and collaboration in organizations and communities and helps students develop the knowledge and skills to develop and lead teams to achieve the desired results. It recognizes that while many people enjoy working collaboratively, doing so can create significant challenges, especially in our society that highly values individualism and in organizations that tend to reward individual performance. The course presents both a behavioral approach to teambuilding, focusing on how to motivate and facilitate individuals working together, and a transformative approach which recognizes the importance of working with individual and collective beliefs and assumptions, individual and group patterns of actions, and organizational support structures. 3 credit(s)