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Course Description (WCD)

BUSAD 5968: Organizational Development & Change

This course outlines the guiding of an organization or team through growth, crises, and sustainment from managerial and support roles. The focus is on objective-oriented processes and diagnostics to evaluate the state of change in groups and the organization as a whole, make changes, and stay on-track through to completion.

How does this course fit into the program?

This course sets the stage for the Certificate Program by presenting common challenges and opportunities and shows the students how to use tools to adapt and react.

BUSAD 5967: Performance Management

This course provides students with an introduction to the concepts and processes required for effective performance management, which establishes a sharper interpretation of organizational expectations that promote a less stressful workplace. Students can apply these tools to adjust workflow, recommend new courses of action, and make other decisions to help employees achieve their objectives. Focusing on continuous accountability creates a healthier, more transparent work environment.

How does this course fit into the program?

This course helps managers, supervisors, and human resource professionals to create a cascade of metrics and targets, from top-level strategic objectives down to the daily activities of frontline employees. By aligning these strategic aims with the organizational goals developed in the other three courses, students can construct a plan that optimizes workforce productivity, safety, and development.

BUSAD 5970: Building a Diverse Workforce & Inclusive Culture

This course provides participants with a deeper understanding of concepts of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the workplace. Starting with clarity around core concepts, participants will move on to examine all phases of the employee lifecycle to discover opportunities for reducing bias and creating inclusive cultures. As a role model and leader, participants will learn, discover, and practice behaviors to promote a greater sense of belong and engagement for all employees.

How does this course fit into the program?

Diversity and Inclusion are woven and integrated into all aspects of the best organizations. This course provides participants with the knowledge, skills, and perspectives to apply a diversity and inclusion lens to all areas of talent and workforce management. With this holistic awareness, participants can advocate within their scope of influence for better decision making and increased employee engagement.

BUSAD 5969: Strategic Integration & Succession Planning

This course outlines the tactics and approaches to implementing strategic plans in real-world situations. Every strategic implementation includes change and people development; therefore, all successful implementations also include succession planning throughout the organization. This course includes approaches, assessments, and execution of succession planning as a key component of strategic implementation.

How does this course fit into the program?

This course incorporates principles, perspectives, tools, and techniques of change, performance management, and building a diverse workforce with forming a strategic plan. Students experience the challenges and advantages of integrating several different technologies into a consolidated work plan.

Workforce and Career Development Certificate Program

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Part of the historically rich and economically vibrant Lehigh Valley for more than 100 years, Penn State Lehigh Valley allows students to pursue a globally known degree in a small, close-knit campus setting. Recently enhanced by a multi-million-dollar expansion project, PSU-LV boasts first-rate facilities and faculty, diverse extracurricular programming, and access to 275 Penn State degrees, 10 of which can be completed entirely at the campus.  
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