In the 21st century, business and industry are more complicated than ever before. At The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, we prepare our students to confront the modern challenges faced by business, government, non-profit institutions, and military organizations. By defining core goals and addressing organization-wide challenges, our graduates help their employers achieve incredible success. As a direct result of our cutting-edge curriculum, Chicago School graduates emerge as effective organizational leaders. Here are just a few of the courses included in our Organizational Effectiveness specialization:
EOE 721 Competitive Compensation and Benefits Systems
Your company’s compensation and benefits systems communicate and reinforce the values of your organization. Participants in this course learn how to create a strategic compensation policy that helps you attract and retain top talent. Learning outcomes include:
- Structuring a compensation policy
- Understand and use different job evaluation methods
- Understand the value of compensation surveys and how to use them
- Create market-competitive salary ranges
- Design internally fair salary structures (3 credits)
EOE 722 Development and Deployment of Employee Surveys
Employee opinion surveys are powerful management tools that can help you strategically enhance productivity, market share, customer satisfaction, and profitability. Participants will learn how to create effective surveys using appreciative inquiry and action planning to measure and implement organizational performance improvement initiatives. Learning outcomes include:
- Creating effective surveys using appreciative inquiry
- Developing sustainable organizational survey initiatives
- Using surveys to enhance organizational performance
- Leveraging survey data to increase organizational effectiveness (3 credits)
EOE 723 Production Labor Relations
This course focuses on understanding the role of collective bargaining in building strong, effective organizations. Participants will become familiar with applicable legislation, responsibilities around negotiations and contract adherence, managing multiple bargaining units, and partnering with bargaining unit representatives to make corporate initiatives successful. Learning outcomes include:
- Partnering with bargaining unit leaders
- Managing the grievance procedure
- Navigating fair employment and other important labor laws (3 credits)
