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| Post Graduate Diploma |
Semester module |
NQF level: 8 |
Credits: 12 |
| 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 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 diagnosis from diverse local and international perspectives. The module outcomes describe competencies aimed at deepening studentsﾒ and practitionersﾒ 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 organisational context. Quantitative and qualitative diagnostic approaches to OD are addressed. The focus is on the steps of effective organisational surveys (quantitative and qualitative), pooling resources (objectives and commitment), developing world class surveys, the communication of objectives, methods of data collection, administering the survey, interpreting results, delivering the findings and action planning. |