Graduate Catalog

MPA 841 Redesigning Organizations

This course is an advanced course in organizational improvement that expects students to apply what they learned from ADM 838, ADM 839, and ADM 840. Students learn a systemic and systematic model for transforming professional organizations into high performing learning organizations by making simultaneous improvements in three sets of key organizational variables; the organization's work processes, its social 'architecture," and its relationship with its external environment. Students design an organizational improvement intervention in a real or fictitious organization.

Credits

3

Prerequisite

MPA 838, MPA 839, and MPA 840 or Permission of the Instructor.

Distribution

Graduate