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| 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 Organisational Development (OD), including practitioners who elect to specialise as professional OD practitioners or consultants within an African and global context. The purpose of the module is to gain comprehensive and specialised knowledge, critical reasoning ability and applied competence in organisation development and change within the Afrocentric and global environment from diverse local and international perspectives. The module outcomes describe competencies aimed at deepening providing studentsﾒ and practitionersﾒ with knowledge, understanding, graduateness, entrepreneurship and critical reasoning and functional competence about complex real-world problems related to the field of OD in the South African and global organisational context.
Furthermore, the focus of this module is on OD as a profession and field of practice within the South African business environment. The competencies of OD practitioners are discussed as well as the use of self in OD consulting. The management of the OD process is an important component, focusing on the essence of OD, entry and contracting, organisational diagnoses, intervention phase and evaluation. |