Culture of Learning Organizations and Systems Thinking

ODC 6430 offers students an opportunity to explore foundational concepts of organizational learning, and to apply organizational learning models to diagnose innovative workplaces. This course embraces a system perspective of learning at the organizational level-of-analysis grounded in the premise that innovation and sustainable change is contingent upon an organization’s ability to create new knowledge through learning. Students use a systems approach to explore culture, group dynamics and leadership strategies for developing effective organizations. Special focus is devoted to the leader’s role in influencing group dynamics to create a learning organization culture.