IE 441

Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

In Work and Organization Design, we will learn about models and theories of work and organization design. By the end of the class you will be able to distinguish between good and bad jobs, including important characteristics of organizations, based on empiric evidence. This class will also provide tools and skills to analyze and redesign jobs to make bad jobs into good ones. We will discuss various implementation strategies to intelligently apply redesigns, which improves their success.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. Prerequisite: IE 340 or consent of instructor.