2027 Organization and Management Development
Content
- organization development (OD) – concept, values and objectives of OD
- contemporary forms of organization
- work in digital age
- lean, agile and focused operations
- change agents
- evaluating OD
- management development and succession planning
- demographic changes and differences between generations of employees
- employee engagement
- employee commitment
- emotions and mindfulness at work
- management trends and challenges
Objectives and competences
Objectives:
- to equip the students with the understanding of concepts of organization and management development (OMR)
- to develop an insight into contemporary organizational forms, issues of work in digital age, new principles of operations, evaluaton of organization development as well as approaches of management development and related challenges
- to teach the students to use, critically asses and evaluate the OMR study literature in order to connect the acquired knowledge with the actual problems from praxis
- to encourage and to support the students in the way that they will understand the discussed theoretical concepts, methodological approaches and practical examples, and to be able to use the acquired knowledge as much as possible in the praxis, where they will be able, with later acquired additional experience, become OMR experts
Competences:
- ability to judge business situations and related OMR concepts and processes
- capacity to use the knowledge about benefits of OMR in social units, especially in order to increase effectiveness and efficiency
- ability to evaluate the actual challenges in contemporary social units, connected with OMR
- capacity of systemic thinking, facilitating cooperation and understanding of importance of ethical behaviour in the context of OMR