ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION AND PROBLEM SOLVING
Improve your problem solving within complex organizations, with a special emphasis on case studies and improving communication, using cross-disciplinary sources.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Graduate/professional standing or declared in Capstone Certificate in Foundations of Professional Development Course Designation: Grad 50% - Counts toward 50% graduate coursework requirement Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Summarize the biases that affect decision making Audience: Graduate 2. Influence others to make better decisions Audience: Graduate 3. Design your decisions and solve your problems using a better process based on empirical social science Audience: Graduate 4. Design your teams and groups to maximize performance and innovation based on principles from social science Audience: Graduate 5. Apply strategies to increase open communication and strategically use conflict in organizations to increase productivity and decision quality Audience: Graduate 6. Create environments and situations that nudge ethical decisions in organization Audience: Graduate 7. Identify blind spots that lead to unethical decisions Audience: Graduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Summarize the biases that affect decision making Audience: Graduate 2. Influence others to make better decisions Audience: Graduate 3. Design your decisions and solve your problems using a better process based on empirical social science Audience: Graduate 4. Design your teams and groups to maximize performance and innovation based on principles from social science Audience: Graduate 5. Apply strategies to increase open communication and strategically use conflict in organizations to increase productivity and decision quality Audience: Graduate 6. Create environments and situations that nudge ethical decisions in organization Audience: Graduate 7. Identify blind spots that lead to unethical decisions Audience: Graduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027