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ORBH 510: Foundations of Organizational Thought:
Learning some of the foundations of organizational thought
can stimulate a vision for creating organizations for
the 21st century. This course is intended to prepare future
scholars for understanding, creating and intervening in
future organizational life. Preparation will include study
of the classics in organizational literature, contemporary
writings, and historical analyses of seminal thoughts
in organizational behavior. Preparation will include process
of historical and appreciative inquiry, roots in organizational
thoughts, contemporary roots of organizational thought,
and some organizing principles (First Year, Fall Semester).
ORBH
520: Group and Interpersonal Analysis: This
course is a review of major concepts and research in
group dynamics and interpersonal relations. Topics concern
face-to-face social interaction such as communication
patterns, power, hierarchy, leadership, norms, goals,
productivity, social theories of personality, and personal
change through group methods. The course combines cognitive
emphasis and personal, experience-based learning (First
Year, Fall Semester).
ORBH
525:
Developing Emotional Intelligence: Although helping
or stimulating individuals to change, learn, and develop
is considered a responsibility of the human resource
function in an organization, every professor, manager,
consultant, and helping professional spends most of
his or her time trying to provoke, evoke, or catalyze
a change in others. This course will examine the processes
by which individuals change and the methods often used
to facilitate this change. How and what a person chooses
to change (i.e., select personal change goals) will
be explored as well as factors affecting the extent
to which he or she changes. The efficacy and ethics
of various approaches to individual change as part of
human resource and organization development efforts
will be discussed (First Year, Spring Semester)
ORBH
530: Social Analysis: This course is an introduction
to major themes and concepts in sociology that influence
the field and to sociological analysis as it relates
to the careers of behavioral science practitioners.
Students are exposed to major theoretical orientations
as well as to summaries of current thinking in several
major topic areas in sociology. The studies of sociology,
sociologists, and the self are combined to help students
develop a sociological perspective of their own potential
roles in the applied behavioral sciences (First Year,
Fall Semester).
ORBH
560: Research Methods I: This course concerns
itself with issues associated with the conduct of social
research. The primary focus is on learning the “craft”
of research and its associated technologies. Among the
topics that are addressed are scientific method, research
terminology and definitions, research design, laboratory
experiments, simulations, field experiments, field studies,
measurement, reliability and validity and sampling.
It is intended to aid students in acquiring the skills
necessary to undertake dissertation-related research
(First Year, Spring Semester).
ORBH
561: Research Methods II: This course is
a continuation of ORBH 560 and further explores the
issues of research design, measurement and sampling,
and techniques of data collection and analysis. Individual
research proposals are developed throughout the semester.
Prerequisite ORBH 560 (Second Year, Spring Semester).
ORBH
565: Research in Gender and Diversity in
Organizations: This course will provide a full range
of feminist research methods exploring relationships
between feminism and methodology involving a plurality
of perspectives for conducting research and creating
knowledge with an emphasis on collecting and interpreting
qualitative materials. Particular attention is paid
to understanding gender and diversity related phenomenon
that occurs in the workplace. Classic feminist research
from a variety of historical, societal, economic, interpersonal
and organizational paradigms are incorporated (Second
Year, Spring Semester)
ORBH
570: Learning and Development: This course
provides an exploration of the learning and development
paradigm underlying the human potential development
approach to human resource development. The origins
of this approach is the naturalist epistemologies: John
Dewey’s pragmatism, Kurt Lewin’s gestalt psychology,
the work of James, Follett, Emerson, Piaget, Maslow,
Rogers and others and current research in adult development,
in biology and brain/mind research. Artificial intelligence,
epistemology, and adult learning will be considered.
The course will focus on applications of these ideas
to current issues in human resource development such
as adult learning in higher education, advanced professional
development and organization learning and development
(First Year, Fall Semester).
ORBH
572: Thematic Analysis: This course will
help students develop the ability to sense themes, or
patterns, the ability to apply coding systems in a reliable
manner, the ability to develop a coding system, and
the ability to design research studies for developing
or using codes. Participants will develop and practices
these abilities on four types of data which are: conscious
and unconscious thought; an individual’s behavior;
interaction among people; and historical documents such
as speeches, myths, ballads, etc. Assignments will involve
reading, practice coding material provided, developing
preliminary codes from material selected, and a research
project in which development and/or use of a code is
required. Appropriate for doctoral students in behavioral
or social sciences (Mini-Course, Occasional Offering)
ORBH
575: Theory and Research in Small Groups:
This course is designed to provide broad exposure to
the theoretical foundations of research in the area
of groups and teams in organizations, and to current
and emerging trends in the research within this area.
The objective is to enable students to conduct independent
research on topics relevant to groups and teams within
organizations. The primary focus is on task-oriented
groups and teams in the organizational context. It will
draw from basic research in social psychology and sociology
in addition to organizational behavior (Second Year,
Fall Semester)
ORBH
601: Special Problems and Topics (every semester)
ORBH
660: Methods of Applied Behavioral Science:
Laboratory methods of learning are studied as are techniques
of design and operation in human relations training
and trainer behavior in group settings. This course
is aimed at both conceptualizing learning and influencing
processes in training laboratory settings and at providing
opportunities for practice of design and operating skills
(Second Year, Spring Semester).
ORBH
701/702: Dissertation Credit (every semester)
ORBH
706/707: Integrative Seminar: These seminars
are advanced courses which various faculty offer depending
on current research interests. Content topics and convening
faculty change from semester to semester. These advanced
seminars may lead into new intervention activities and/or
dissertation research (Fall/Spring Semesters)
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