Program Overview
International Study Tour
One of the unique and most rewarding
opportunities of the MPOD program is the
10-day international study tour. Students
travel together as a class and have the
opportunity to study and experience
multicultural dynamics with OD students
in other countries. In addition, they learn
about the practice of OD on location
through engaging with change agents and
consultants during intensive site visits in
the host locations. Students experience,
together, the call to global citizenship, and
also have an opportunity to develop and
deepen peer relationships and broaden
international contacts.
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The context of organizational development (OD) has shifted radically within the last 20 years. Customer service, productivity, and the bottom line are no longer the only benchmarks of business success. Today’s leaders need to be prepared to embrace accelerated change, technology, distributed organizing, social entrepreneurship, and globalization. Personal and organizational success requires a strategic focus on technical, relational and human factors. The MPOD degree enables professionals to create a better world by developing human potential with strength-based methods of inquiry, design, and change management.
This 40-credit, 19-month program is delivered in five, week-long residencies and one 10-day international study tour, with virtual conferencing and intensive internet-mediated learning in between the residential periods.
Participants in the MPOD program will meet in the Frank Gehry designed Peter B. Lewis Building, the home of the Weatherhead School
of Management on the campus of Case Western Reserve University. The building is the most creative, dynamic, and electronically connected environment in the world for learning and exploring business ideas and societal trends.
This distinct learning atmosphere offers Weatherhead a unique opportunity to advance its new global education delivery model called “collaborative excellence.” This model
connects the best in
experiential learning,
expansive virtual
collaboration tools, and
the exciting new fields of
positive organizational
scholarship, and human
systems change.
Upon completion of the program, participants will:
- Build new capabilities in strategic-level change management for value
creation with customers and communities
- Broaden their knowledge of leading-edge theory and practice in
appreciative inquiry, strength-based human resource development, and
positive organizational change research
- Develop the competencies and the emotional intelligence to coach and
foster leadership skills and personal character in themselves and others
- Be able to form extraordinary groups and organizations — sustainable
enterprises that enable human flourishing — that are economically
prosperous, ecologically advanced, and contribute to uniting the
strengths of markets with universal ideas
- Engage in lifelong experiential learning to realize, develop, and model
themselves as agents for change
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