Faculty Contact Information:
Faculty: Dr. Bill Stewart
Email: bstewart@faculty.ed.umuc.edu
Address: HQ USEUCOM CMR 480, Box 669 APO AE 09128-0669 | |
Consultation:
| Office hours: Thirty minutes before and after class or by appointment. Contact anytime via email. | |
Required Texts and Readings:
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Text used exclusively in this course:
Cummings, T. G. & Worley, C. G. (2005). Organization development and change. (8th ed.).
Texts used in multiple courses:
American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington DC: Author
Ott, J. S., Parkes, S. J. & Simpson, R. B. (2003). Classic readings in organizational behavior (3rd ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson Wadsworth. | |
Supplementary Readings:
| All graduate students should be prepared to utilize the UMUC online library at www.ed.umuc.edu/library . The library contains a large number of full text academic journals that are free of charge and immediately available. The library homepage also contains a number of links related to improving students' research and writing skills. | |
Recommended Journals:
| A variety of full-text, online, free-of-charge and pay-per-view academic journals are listed on the UMUC online library. The Journal of Organizational Behavior is especially useful in this course. | |
Course Description:
| Prerequisites: MGMT 511 and MGMT 571. This course is designed to provide an understanding of the underlying theory of organization change through planned intervention; to explore how various change strategies can be applied to problems involving people in open systems; and to analyze successful approaches and techniques in organization development, to include materials, techniques, designs, current issues, and practices. Other topics covered in the course will include the understanding of the organization as a system, functions of a professional OD practitioner, OD entry strategies, organization assessment and diagnosis, collecting and analyzing diagnostic information, designing OD interventions, leading and managing change, as well as ethical implications of OD and OD in global settings. | |
Course Goals:
| As an advanced course in the Management Track of the MPA, this course builds on theories and concepts from earlier courses (MGMT511 and MGMT571)and provides the student with tools and strategies to deal with organizational change. The course emphasizes the need to use human resources in an effective manner to achieve organizational goals. | |
Course Objectives:
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At the conclusion of this course, students will be able to:
- Analyze and diagnose organizations in need of planned change using concepts from the literature on organization development (OD).
- Apply theoretical perspectives to practical problems in OD.
- Investigate current issues and best practices in OD.
- Utilize electronic resources to find primary source documents, data, statements on best practices, and research articles related to issues in OD.
- Develop and present viable intervention strategies and policy recommendations relating to OD issues.
- Recognize and be sensitive to ethical concerns in OD and OD in global settings.
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Grading Information:
Grades for this course will be assigned as follows:
A Above 90%
B 80 up to 90%
C 70 up to 80%
F Below 70%
Please note that Bowie State University does not use "D" for graduate students. The grade F is used to designate academic failure. F(n) is used to designate failure for non-completion. Grades of Incomplete or Withdrawal are governed by UMUC-Europe policies. For further details, please refer to the UMUC-Europe Graduate Catalog. Hard copies of the catalog are available in your local Education Center. | |
Course Requirements:
The student's practice and development of critical thinking is a major factor in the final course grade awarded. To this end this intensive course requires academic achievement pursuant to activities weighted by the following scale:
Participation: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10%
--- Attendance
--- Timeliness
--- Preparedness
In-Class Case Discussions . . . . . . . . .30%
--- Quality of participation
--- Written notes
Midterm exam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20%
Written integrated case study . . . . . . .20%
Final exam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20%
Attendance, Grades and Late Arrivals for Class:
Attendance is mandatory. Students who arrive late for class violate the UMUC/BSU policy on the total number of teacher-student contact hours required for award of graduate credit. Students who arrive late miss lecture material and decrease their class participation thereby affecting their learning and course grade. | |
Description of Course Requirements:
Successful graduate students in American universities dedicate approximately three hours of preparation/study time for every hour spent in the face-to-face classroom. Thus, the following course requirements were developed on the assumption that students would be prepared to spend approximately 150 hours of their own time working on them. In an 8-week term, that is the equivalent of a half-time job.
- Participate in classroom discussions: A successful student will come to class prepared to engage in all discussions in a professional and informed manner. Reading assignments are to be accomplished before the class session in which they are to be discussed, applied, and analyzed.
- Orally/visually present prepared material: You are required to present your research and case analyses in group settings in a professional manner. In this course, well prepared oral presentations accompanied by appropriate notes and other visual materials, as necessary, will be the standard.
- In-class case study discussions: Students will read and prepare the assigned cases for oral discussion, analysis, and critique in a small-group setting. Students are further required to prepare written case discussion notes for their own use; these notes will be prepared in duplicate. The second set of notes will be submitted to the professor before class for review.
- Write graduate level papers or case studies: A student is required to conduct professional-level research, including appropriately citing works of others and avoiding plagiarism. Moreover, all students are strongly encouraged to familiarize themselves with current UMUC-Europe/BSU standards regarding plagiarism. Academic dishonesty in any of its forms will not be tolerated.
- Students are also required to complete a major written case problem analysis project as the equivalent of a term research paper assignment.
- Complete two written examinations: The examination process in this class will assist you in developing the writing and critical thinking skills necessary to successfully passing the comprehensive exam required of all graduate students. The midterm and final exams will be prepared as in-class closed book exercises. Administration of the midterm exam may be modified to be a take-home, open book test. That determination will be made during the first class session. | |
Course Schedule:
This schedule presents the outline of class assignments.
Weekend 1, 29 Oct:
C&W Chapters 1-4; Ott Readings #38, #40
--Course administration & introduction
Weekend 2, 11-12 Nov:
C&W Chapters 5-8; Ott Readings #15, #18, #42, #39
--Oral Case1: "It's Your Turn," C&W pp. 201-2 with two copies of discussion notes for in-class discussion and presentation
--Midterm exam
Weekend 3, 2-3 Dec:
C&W Chapters 11-18; Ott Reading #6
--Oral discussion Case2, "Metric Division," pp. 264-268 with two copies of discussion notes for in-class discussion and presentation.
Weekend 4, 16-17 Dec
C&W Chapters 19-23
-- Oral discussion Case3, "Sharpe BMW," pp. 438-443 with two copies of discussion notes for in-class discussion and presentation.
--Written integrated case, "Caesars Tahoe," pp. 646-651
--Course evaluation
--Final comprehensive exam | |
Academic Policies:
The University has a license agreement with Turnitin.com, a service that helps prevent plagiarism from internet resources. I may be using this service in this class by either requiring students to submit their papers electronically to Turnitin.com or by submitting questionable text on behalf of a student. If you or I submit part or all of your paper, it will be stored by Turnitin.com in their database throughout the term of the University's contract with Turnitin.com. If you object to this temporary storage of your paper, you must let me know no later than two weeks after the start of this class. Please Note: If you object to the storage of your paper on Turnitin.com, I may utilize other services to check your work for plagiarism.
The official university policy on Plagiarism and Academic Dishonesty can be found at http://www.umuc.edu/policy/aa15025.shtml. Section I.C. states: "Faculty may determine if the resubmission of course work from previous classes (whether or not taken at UMUC), partially or in its entirety, is acceptable when assigning a grade on that piece of course work. Faculty must provide this information in their written syllabi. If the resubmission of course work is deemed to be unacceptable, a charge may not be brought under this Policy and will be handled as indicated in the written syllabi."
Please refer to Description of Course Requirements for specific information on how resubmissions will be treated in this course and to the UMUC-Europe Graduate Catalog for information on the following:
Academic Integrity
Course Load
Exception to Policy
Grade Appeal Process
Make-up Examinations
Nondiscrimination
Students with Disabilities
Hard copies of the catalog are available at your local Education Center. | |
Faculty Bio:
William G. Stewart, Ph.D., Collegiate Professor of Public Administration and Management.
Dr. Bill Stewart completed the Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership at the University of Oklahoma, writing a dissertation on perceptions of leadership and management in the Armed Forces of the United States. He received the M.B.A. from the University of South Dakota and the B.A. in International Relations and German from Brigham Young University. He joined the University of Maryland University College-Europe faculty in 1990, after retiring from the U.S. Air Force having served in ICBM operations, as a pilot, and in international politico-military affairs for Germany and the United Kingdom. | |