BUS 657 - Managing Change, Creativity & Innovation, 3 credit hours

This course will bring together comprehensive aspects of change management, creative problem solving, and organizational growth with systems thinking. The course will be designed to use relevant and timely case study materials, interviews, reflective questions, and hands-on experiential opportunities. Specific topic in the course will include (but not be limited to) The Process of Change, Creativity and Innovation; Growth in the Creative Economy and the Future of Organizations; The Individual – Promoting Critical Thinking; The Group – Nurturing Team Work; The Leader – Promoting New Ideas at Work; The Culture – Enabling and Constraining Creative Processes at Work; and the Organization – Managing Processes of Change.