Class Advanced Methods of Organisational Intervention and Development

This course is situated within the field of organizational intervention, focusing on the understanding, design, implementation, and evaluation of organizational change and intervention processes. It covers needs diagnosis, intervention planning and design, the selection of strategies, methods, and techniques suited to different organizational levels and contexts, as well as the evaluation of intervention processes and outcomes. Within the study programme, the course adopts an advanced and applied approach, promoting the critical use of scientific knowledge to analyse organizational problems and opportunities and to develop evidence-based, context-sensitive, and evaluable interventions.

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CP1. Organizational Change 1.1. Concept and types of organizational change 1.2. Change agents and targets 1.3. Driving forces and resistance to change  CP2. From Organizational Diagnosis to Intervention 2.1. Organizational diagnosis and needs identification 2.2. Organizational intervention design and planning 2.3. Stakeholders, strategies, and levels of organizational intervention 2.4. Organizational intervention methods and techniques  CP3. Evaluation and Feedback of Organizational Interventions 3.1. Evaluation of intervention processes and outcomes 3.2. Criteria and methods for intervention evaluation 3.3. Intervention feedback and follow-up

The course adopts active and experiential learning methodologies, integrating scientific knowledge with practical application. Case studies, simulations, role-play, intervention labs, organizational decision-making scenarios, and collaborative exercises are used. The Organisational Challenge, developed throughout the semester around a real organization using a Project-Based Learning (PBL) approach, promotes information research and analysis and the progressive application of course content to the diagnosis, design, and evaluation of an intervention, culminating in the presentation and defence of the proposal before an organizational representative.

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