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Course Number
DYNM 5110 001
Course Code
DYNM5110001
Course Key
85805
Schedule
Day(s)
Tuesday
Time
5:15pm-8:15pm
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Primary Program
Course Description
This foundational course in Organizational Dynamics explores the complex relationship between organizational culture and communication within modern workplaces. The course provides a comprehensive overview of that interplay, emphasizing their significance in today's diverse and dynamic work environments, a key focus of the program.
In so doing, the course will cover various theories, models, and practical approaches that enhance communication in diverse organizational contexts. Effective organizational communication must consider and address its audiences culture, context, and cognition. Awareness and understanding of different theories, models, and perspectives as to how that can be accomplished allows the student to see the organization as a complex enterprise with related parts that comprise the whole.
The course goes further by equipping students with critical systems thinking tools to assess and improve organizational culture, and advanced writing skills to effectively communicate their findings, as both tools and lenses enabling holistic understanding, strategic improvement, and the clear expression of ideas in seeing organizations as systems.
This is important for several reasons. First, organizational culture reflects the organizations norms and values that in turn impact communication, how messages are received and understood. They also reflect the power dynamics of the organization, indicative of who makes decisions, how they are made, and who is included and why. Paying attention to these dynamics allows leaders and members to be more inclusive and respectful toward each other and promote organizational harmony, ethical behavior, and ultimately organizational success. They also enhance communication efficiency, cultural competence, trust building, decision-making, employee engagement, and conflict resolution.
Real-world case studies and examples will highlight the impact and importance of these skills in diverse organizational contexts.
In so doing, the course will cover various theories, models, and practical approaches that enhance communication in diverse organizational contexts. Effective organizational communication must consider and address its audiences culture, context, and cognition. Awareness and understanding of different theories, models, and perspectives as to how that can be accomplished allows the student to see the organization as a complex enterprise with related parts that comprise the whole.
The course goes further by equipping students with critical systems thinking tools to assess and improve organizational culture, and advanced writing skills to effectively communicate their findings, as both tools and lenses enabling holistic understanding, strategic improvement, and the clear expression of ideas in seeing organizations as systems.
This is important for several reasons. First, organizational culture reflects the organizations norms and values that in turn impact communication, how messages are received and understood. They also reflect the power dynamics of the organization, indicative of who makes decisions, how they are made, and who is included and why. Paying attention to these dynamics allows leaders and members to be more inclusive and respectful toward each other and promote organizational harmony, ethical behavior, and ultimately organizational success. They also enhance communication efficiency, cultural competence, trust building, decision-making, employee engagement, and conflict resolution.
Real-world case studies and examples will highlight the impact and importance of these skills in diverse organizational contexts.
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