Organizational Assessment and Accountability ADS730 Spring 2019
Instructor: David Veres, Ph.D.
This course was designed to introduce doctoral students to organizational assessment and accountability and provide students with conceptual and practical tools to conduct organizational assessments and develop accountability measures. Students also studied the role that research and data play in accountability, assessment and policy development.
Doctoral Standards
Standard 4: An organizational leader actively seeks to build the capacity of the organization in order to solve local, national, and global problems through education, training, mobilization of human and community resources, and collaboration with external organizations.
Standard 5: An organizational leader acts with integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner.
Standard 6: An organizational leader seeks to understand, respond to, and influence the larger political, social, economic, legal, and cultural context through the analysis and evaluation of policy standards.
Standard 8: An organizational leader develops and maintains humane and inclusive organizations that address the root causes of social and structural inequalities.
Course Textbooks
Course Assignments
Leadership and Policy Takeaways
- An effective organizational training and development practice is to hire for values and train for skills (Bustin, 2014)
- Principle of Mission – No matter what business you’re in, when you care for people and build a relationship, when you have something to say, others will listen (Class Experience)
- Measure success and failure honestly (Class Experience)
