HLS825 Network Organizations and Other Large Scale Interventions for HLS
Network Organizations are developing quickly throughout the world and are becoming increasingly important in how work gets accomplished. Network organizations have been growing in the modern world because traditional organizations cannot respond to the complexity and speed of change facing today’s organization. In the case of Homeland Security, where many interagency and inter-organizations must work together to respond to crisis, understanding Network Organizations and how to work between and with them is no longer a nicety but is absolutely essential. ,
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The problems of working with diverse organizational cultures, communicating across organizations, communities, and social groups including rural versus urban and metropolitan cultures will be addressed. Unique planning, intervention, and communication problems involving case studies and simulations will be used to create an active learning involvement. Students will be expected to build and develop their leadership skills necessary for working within and between Network Organizations while examining various methods used for operating within a parent organization as well as cooperatively with outside Homeland Security partners.
Corequisite
None
Distribution
Security Studies
Notes
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