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Organisational Development Interventions in South African and African contexts - IOP4865

Post Graduate Diploma Year module NQF level: 8 Credits: 24
Module presented in English Module presented online
Purpose: This module is intended for all people who are pursuing a career in the field of Organisation Development (OD), including practitioners who elect to specialise as professional OD practitioners or consultants. The purpose of the module is to gain comprehensive and specialised universal IOP knowledge, critical reasoning ability and applied competence in organisation development intervention design. The module outcomes describe competencies aimed at deepening students' and practitioners' knowledge, understanding and critical reasoning and functional competence about complex real-world problems related to the field of OD in an Afrocentric organisational context. The focus of this module covers the planning and implementation of universal OD interventions at individual, group and organisational level in an Afrocentric organisational context. This includes but is not limited to leadership development, mentoring, coaching (individual level), team building and intergroup development (group level) structure, culture and large group interventions (organisational level).