EDD854 Organizational Learning (3 cr.)

Prerequisite(s): EDD809 , EDD820  
This course applies the concepts of learning to the methods and techniques through which organizations communicate information and learn. Supported by the learning organization model of organization theory, this course examines the structures and systems that allow organizations to learn as well as those that inhibit or eliminate organizational learning.

Upon completion of the course, students are expected to be able to do the following:

1. Analyze and discuss the development of organizational learning.
2. Apply organizational learning to the structure of an existing organization.
3. Demonstrate defensive reasoning and the structures that support it.
4. Apply the concepts of organizational learning to the development of a new organization or the re-engineering of an existing organization.