Click here:Course Syllabus Miscellaneous assignment notes Daily Schedule The Virtual Organization

Goal: The goal of this course is to provide students knowledge, sensitivity, skills and awareness of value issues to increase their ability to survive, thrive and institute change in complex organizations.

Objectives: Over the course of this semester students should develop the ability to:

1. identify and define primary concepts associated with organizational theory,
2. apply abstract concepts to discussions of real organizational situations,
3. use learning in order to assist our classroom organization in completing an agreed upon semester-long project,
4. use computer technology to participate in our classroom organization.

Class format: This class will include a limited amount of lecture. We will primarily be working as an interactive organization in pursuit of a cooperatively determined semester-long goal.

Text: FUNDAMENTALS OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION:
KNOWLEDGE, SENSITIVITY, SKILLS, VALUES, 2nd edition.
Pamela Shockley-Zalabak New York: Longman (1995).

Additional readings will be assigned throughout the semester related to the specific topics to be addressed during specific class periods.

Course Syllabus