OU-Tulsa Organizational Dynamics

OU-Tulsa Organizational Dynamics

Core Courses
ODYN 5113	The Psychology of Leadership
Focuses on the theories, principles and practice of leadership in organizational settings; particular focus on technologically based organizations, leading change in organizations, and leading teams.

ODYN 5123	Survey of Organizational Dynamics
Overview of theories and practices used in Human Resource Management; Project Management; and Knowledge Management. Emphasis is on research methodologies and key theories relevant to each of the three substantive areas, as well as application of general principles of each of the three areas in the workplace, considering individual, group, and organizational levels.

ODYN 5133	Teams and Motivation
Team formation, socialization and identity, team problem solving, individual and collective motivation, conflict and power, learning and team development, and group liabilities.

ODYN 5153	Design, Evaluation, and Statistics
Covers applied research designs such as quasi-experimental and correlation designs; Covers basic statistics, hypothesis testing, correlation/multiple regression, and quality control models. Focus will be on application of statistics in organizational problem solving.

ODYN 5163	Applied Measurement and Analysis
Focuses on teaching principles and practices of individual and organizational assessment, covering concepts such as validity, reliability, survey and instrument development, and characteristics of organizational data; Techniques for analyzing organizational data and conducting program evaluation will also be discussed.

ODYN 5183	Capstone Project
Students may opt to complete a thesis in lieu of the capstone project. Completion of a thesis involves supervised research in area agreed upon by the student, instructor, and faculty committee.

ODYN 5980	Masters Thesis
Students may opt to complete a thesis in lieu of the capstone project. Completion of a thesis involves supervised research in area agreed upon by the student, instructor, and faculty committee.

Human Resource Management
ODYN 5213	Job Analysis Methods and Applications
Focuses on the major theories, principles, and applications of job analysis in business and industrial settings. The topics covered in this class include job analysis methods and tools, and the application of job analysis information in human resource management functions such as personnel selection, training and development, performance appraisal, organizational development and change, workforce planning, and compensation.

ODYN 5223	Performance Management
Covers basic approaches to motivating and developing individuals to perform well within organizational settings; includes discussion of alternative methods for measuring and assessing individual, team, and organizational performance.

ODYN 5233	Training and Career Development
Overview of principles, theories and practices of learning and development in organizations; Application of various training techniques and designs will be covered as well as roles of different organizational constituencies in employee training and development.

ODYN 5243	Staffing, Selection, and Compensation
Focuses on recent, state-of-the-art processes and technologies for organizational staffing, personnel selection, and employee benefits and pay. Relevant theories in these areas will be reviewed.

ODYN 5253	Organizational Behavior, Change and Development
Explores theories and practices related to the planned process of changing an organization or group’s culture to increase organizational productivity and effectiveness; Topics such as organizational assessment and diagnosis, continuous learning, problem solving sessions, reward systems, visioning, and empowerment will be covered.

ODYN 5263	Human Resource Management Systems and Techniques
Survey of theory and practice in primary areas of human resource management such as workforce planning, recruiting, selection and staffing, performance management, compensation, and training and development.

Project Management
ODYN 5313	Planning, Processes, and Strategy Development
Overview of principles and practices of planning and strategy development. Planning processes will be examined at micro as well as macro organizational levels; organizational strategies such as succession planning and workforce planning will be discussed.

ODYN 5323	The Psychology and Practice of Project Management
Focuses on strategies and steps involved in developing project proposals and workplans; includes topics such as needs assessment, budgeting, resource utilization, managing diverse project teams, troubleshooting, and others.

ODYN 5333	Customer Service and Market Analysis
Principles, theories and applications of market analysis and customer service will be reviewed; techniques for gathering, assessing, and analyzing market and customer data will be covered; techniques for improving customer service will be discussed.

ODYN 5343	Organizational Communication
Overview of theories and systems of communication in organizational settings; various forms and effectiveness of communication as well as purposes and strategies at different organizational levels will be covered.

ODYN 5353	Global Business Practices and Ethics
Covers the relationship between organizations and global markets; explores how organizational systems work together to meet global demands, system breakdowns, and assessment of organizational performance. Overview of moral philosophies, principles and ethical practices in business and industrial settings.

Information Management (These courses offered through the School of Library and Information Studies and do not conform to the 3 weekend format.)

LIS 5043	Organization of Information and Knowledge Resources
Organization of internal and external sources of information; information services and tools; basic concepts of information storage and retrieval systems; design and structure of information systems; identification and organization of knowledge resources such as expertise, skills and competencies; knowledge organization methods such as classification, cataloguing taxonomies and metadata; search strategies and information retrieval.

LIS 5053	Information Users in the Knowledge Society
Information use by people in various roles, situations, and contexts, individually and in groups. Information behavior and the influence of learning and cognitive process; value systems; and situational, psychological, sociological, and political perspectives. Application of study of user information behavior to textual, graphical, and visual representation of knowledge. Includes both theoretical models and practical methodologies for study of uses and for user-centered design of information and knowledge systems and services.

LIS 5473	Documents and Record Management
The systematic capture, acquisition, processing, storage, and control of documents in all formats, including their management as records throughout the life cycle from creation to final disposition. Introduction to principles, methodologies, administration, tools, and techniques in various settings.

LIS 5103	Design and Implementation of Networked Information Systems
Design fundamentals for networked information services. Emphasis is on implementation of storage, access, and distribution, knowledge representation methods, search engines and indexing based on analysis and evaluation of current connectivity infrastructure, and characteristics and behavior of networked audiences.

LIS 5113	Knowledge Representation
Approaches to representing knowledge; textual, graphical, and visual representation of knowledge; knowledge-based systems, artificial intelligence, and expert systems. Emphasis is on use of knowledge representation in analysis and communication.
Note: Course offerings are subject to change.

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