SLAS 6003 Policy Analysis/Organizational Dynamics
In this course we review several theories of leadership and encourage you to actively apply them to scenarios that exemplify organizational dynamics in your profession. The course will also deepens students' understanding of the way in which policy and organizational realities interact at various levels: how pressures limit policy choices, how choices in turn reshape policies, and how policymakers can function in the interplay of competing forces. The theme explored is how administrators balance concerns for substantive policy objectives, institutional politics and elective politics in order to achieve change. The nature of key stakeholders and executive institutional objectives and roles is examined. In addition, attention is given to the role of policy analysis and analysts in shaping policy decisions, seeking to identify their potential for positive impact and their limitations in the organizational dynamics and process.