Organizational Development and Leadership (ODL) Track

Organizational Development and Leadership Track

Courses 

• CLIC 800 - Leadership Theory and Creative Practice (UVI Core Course 1)
• Students critically assess and evaluate various conventional and innovative leadership theories and demonstrated practices with a special emphasis on identifying creative forms and original areas of research in this area of inquiry. Leadership theories and applications are considered within multiple contexts toward a systematic investigation of demonstrated practices, corresponding values, and underlying assumptions of leadership as the foundation towards leading complex organizations. 3 Credits
• CLIC 801 - Sensemaking, Creativity, and Innovation in Leadership (UVI Core Course 2)
• This course thoroughly examines and explores how retrospective sense-making and rational decision-making processes influence creativity and innovation. Emphasis is placed on learning how innovation and creativity reflexively change leadership practice. This course will also provide students with the opportunity to design an applied research project to systematically investigate some facet(s) of sense-making and decision-making related to creative leadership. 3 Credits 
• CLIC 802 - Organizational Theory and Analysis (UVI Core Course 3)
• This is a foundation course in the doctoral program. This course evaluates multiple theoretical perspectives of organizations toward building a working synthesis that can be utilized in researching and practicing organizational leadership. 3 Credits
• CLIC 806 - Qualitative Research Methods I (Research Methods Course 1)
• This course emphasizes qualitative methods of inquiry in applied organizational research. Learners evaluate case studies and ethnographies toward generating an original research design. This course may be offered in an online or hybrid format. 3 Credits
• CLIC 803 - Ethics and Social Justice in Leadership (UVI Core Course 4) 
• General ethical theory and relevant legal and social justice issues are critically examined within an organizational leader context toward developing ethical leader principles and demonstrated behaviors in complex organizations. This course is an advanced seminar and emphasizes the systematic investigation of an ethical or social justice issue of problems requiring creative leadership. 3 Credits
• CLIC 804 - Innovation By Design (UVI Core Course 5)
• This course focuses on the methodologies and practices necessary for individuals and organizations to regularly create break-through innovations. Participants will learn the tools and methodologies of the design thinking innovation process. The participants will master applying these methods in the creation of innovative new products, processes, and services using case studies and projects. Participants will also learn to combine this break-through product innovation method with traditional corporate new product development processes. Emerging research on innovative new product development will also be discussed and analyzed. 3 Credits
• CLIC 807 - Quantitative Research Methods II (UVI Research Methods Course 2)
• This course emphasizes quantitative methods of inquiry in applied organizational leadership research. Learners evaluate experimental and correlational studies toward generating an original applied research design. This course may be offered in an online or hybrid format and include both laboratory and lecture section formats. 3 Credits
• CLIC 805 - Communicative Leadership, Somatics, and Phenomenology for Change  (UVI Core Course 6)
• Communicative Leadership, Somatics, and Phenomenology for Change is knowing from within as opposed to from an external perspective. This, combined with capacities for guiding the communicative construction of meaning, creates a sense of collaborative action for change. Communicative Leadership, Somatics, and Phenomenology for Change methods place the scholar-leader in the center as the instrument of change. As such, her or his own being, as the primary instrument, is enhanced to create more effective practice.  3 Credits
• CLIC 808 - Action and Participative Research Methods III (UVI Research Methods Course 3)
• This course emphasizes quantitative methods of inquiry in applied organizational leadership research. Learners evaluate action research case studies toward generating an original applied research design. This course may be offered in an online or hybrid format and include both laboratory and lecture section formats. 3 Credits
• CLIC 840. Creative Thinking, Collaboration and Organizational Change. (OLC Track Course 1).
• This course introduces Creativity and Organizational Change and its many interdisciplinary fields. Students learn critical and creative approaches to working in organizations. The course further explores the relationships between creative thinking, collaboration, and organizational change. Some of the major themes to be explored are the role of chaos in organizations, systems thinking, creative thinking as a dynamic of collaboration, the potential and influence of informal leadership on organizational change, and the distinctions between working groups and real, high-performing teams. The evolution of creativity, the nature of change, and how change agents can effectively manage and implement change in organizations will be explored. Utilizing Lewin’s Three-Stage Model of Change and Schein’s planned change theory, the course presents theoretical and historical foundations of the field and explains the practical interventions involved in the change process. The course further focuses on team building, ethical decision-making, enhanced communication skills, critical thinking, and people skills. 3 credits
• CLIC 841. Organizational History, Theories, and Development: Applications to Creativity and Innovation. (OLC Track Course 2).
• This course provides a review of theoretical understandings of organizations and their development. It explores organizational concepts and theories to enable students to discover effective methods for creating organizational change. This course provides a thorough overview of the field of organizational research. Using organizational concepts and theories, students will trace the development, rationale, and purpose of organizations in society. A critical lens will be used to assess how creativity, innovation, and organizational change can best Graduate Bulletin serve as the bedrock for productivity. The course will critically investigate the impact organizations have on our lives and the structure of our society. Concepts and theories such as isomorphism, institutionalism, bureaucracy, culture, control theory, stratification systems, and population ecology, will further be explored. Students will investigate the complex relationship between workers and employers, managers and organizational decision making, organizations and their environment, and the changing nature of the world we live in. Students will be able to utilize an organizational theory as their theoretical framework. 3 credits
• CLIC 842. Theories and Processes of Leadership: Leadership by Design: Innovation Process and Culture. (OLC Track Course 3).
• The course examines leadership theories, methods, and practices that influence leadership. It further provides a review of the many theories and leadership development concepts. Students will gain an understanding of leadership, leadership theories, and leadership development. The course will also focus on the knowledge and skills necessary to practice effective creativity and innovation by leaders within organizations. Students will examine leadership theories and their research application. The course provides insights on how to utilize leadership theories as a theoretical framework and foundation for research in leadership studies. Students are encouraged in this course to be grounded in leadership theories to use them as a foundation for research or to critically evaluate empirical research studies. Methods and practices that influence leadership and organizations will be explored based on the theory. Emphasis on leadership and organizational performance outcomes and how implementations impact emerging global markets will be presented. 3 credits
• CLIC 843. Innovation, Sustainability and Change (OLC Track Course 4). Innovation, Sustainability and Change.
• Students will survey innovative strategies in Organizations about workforce development training and management. The course addresses innovation, sustainability, and change from the following perspectives: sustainable business models, inclusive business for poverty alleviation, and various forms of entrepreneurship for sustainability ventures. In the course, students will investigate global environmental and social sustainability problems and their potential solutions. Global sustainability challenges such as climate change, depletion of natural resources, and poverty are treated as starting points for innovation of new forms of economic activity, business models, and organizational forms. The Graduate Bulletin evolution of creativity, the nature of change, and how change agents can effectively manage and implement change in organizations will be explored Through lectures, exercises, team projects, and practitioner’s colloquiums, students will gain an understanding of wicked societal problems related to sustainability: what they are, how they can be approached, and why it is important to tackle them. More importantly, the course aims at exploring alternative paths for creative and innovative responses to sustainability challenges. The emphasis will be on entrepreneurial solutions within the business sector, but emphasis will be placed on collaboration with other actors such as non-governmental organizations and the public in the pursuit of systemic solutions. The course uses a variety of interactive working methods, which encourage the students to explore and reflect upon their thinking patterns through happiness and sustainability diaries and collaboratively develop new ideas. 3 credits
• CLIC 844 - Global & Intercultural Aspects of Leadership and Diversity (OLC Track Course 5).
• This advanced research course will take a comparative approach to organizational and creative leadership, including an examination of developing and emerging global cultures. Content focuses on how different cultures interpret and impact organizational structure, policy, and effectiveness. This course examines Global Organizational Research and Development. It also provides the student with a study of various international organizational structures, along with a comparison of emerging influential cultures which impact international markets, and global performance. It also raises student awareness of cultural issues in organizations, including, issues of varying race, race relations, sexual orientation, ethnicity and culture, gender, physical disability, ageism, and other discrimination factors which may impact the employee’s productivity or performance. Attention will be paid to cultural barriers and to the impact of the worker’s worldview on organizational relationships. Adaptation, acculturation, and assimilation will be examined. Each cultural issue is evaluated in terms of its application to the workplace. An Action Research project will be conducted to examine the cultural contexts and constructs discussed in the course. 3 Credits
• CLIC 845 - Organizational Policy Analysis and Change (OLC Track Course 6).
• This course will assist students in understanding how to perform a policy analysis and utilize it to improve organizational effectiveness. Students will: understand how organizations and communities design and sustain effective change strategies; apply theories of learning and performance, knowledge management, and strategic change; and learn how to analyze societal Graduate Bulletin policies that affect organizations. This course examines the major components of organization development: the evolution of organization development, the nature of change, and how change agents can effectively manage and implement change in organizations. This course will emphasize the human relations role in the change process and the human relations professional as a change agent. This course is also recommended for students interested in consulting, management, or other roles that involve change and development in the workplace, especially Creativity and Innovation. 3 Credits

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