Continuing professional development and education is an important part of improving individual performance and truly holds the key to career advancement. There is no better way to further develop your skills and increase your knowledge than through executive education programs. And there is no better discipline to center those studies in than psychology. While psychology may not be among your initial thoughts on continuing professional development, it should be. With a strict focus on human behaviors and motivations, no other discipline has a greater potential for influencing personal and organizational performance.
That is why more and more of today's most creative and effective business leaders have been looking to psychology to fill their executive education and development needs. One area that is particularly well suited to psychology's foundation is organizational effectiveness and efficiency. With an increasingly competitive business environment, many companies are looking to organizational effectiveness to help them trim their budgets and to maintain profitability. With a foundation centered in practical applied psychology, our continuing professional education catalog, including organizational effectiveness programs, is a great way to attain the tools you need for personal growth, professional development and career advancement opportunities.
Whether you’re a human resources professional seeking continuing HR training opportunities or a management consultant looking to further your professional development, the organizational effectiveness programs at The Chicago School are designed to allow you access to graduate-level instruction designed with your specific career goals, experiences and challenges in mind. The organizational effectiveness programs can be completed as a specialization in the Industrial & Organizational Psychology Master's Degree or as part of the certificate program.
Whether taken as the ExCEL certificate or as a specialization with the ExCEL Master's Track, the organizational effectiveness programs consist of three individual courses:
- Competitive Compensation & Benefits Systems- Recognizing that your company’s compensation and benefits system says a lot about the values of your organization, students of this course learn how to create a strategic compensation program that helps their company attract and retain the top talent in their industry.
- Development & Deployment of Employee Surveys- Employee surveys can be a powerful tool, allowing the management of a company to strategically enhance productivity, customer satisfaction, , organizational effectiveness, market share and profitability. This course shows students how to create effective surveys to implement and measure organizational performance improvement initiatives.
- Production Labor Relations- Collective bargaining plays a significant role in establishing organizational effectiveness. Students of this organizational effectiveness program become familiar with all applicable legislation, various negotiation and contract adherence responsibilities, managing multiple bargaining units, and partnering with unit representatives in working to make corporate initiatives successful.
The ExCEL (Executive Career Enhancement and Leadership) tracks offer an innovative approach to the master's degree program designed specifically with the working professional in mind. It has never been easier to pursue organizational effectiveness programs in pursuit of your masters-level degree than with these 20-month course tracks, which blend online and on-campus educational experiences that accommodate both personal and professional commitments. If you have been wanting to pursue an organizational effectiveness program as continuing professional education, but thought your busy schedule was just too hectic to allow for it, The Chicago School's Industrial & Organizational Psychology Master's Track with an organizational effectiveness specialization might be your answer. Learn more about this executive education opportunity today by following this link: Industrial & Organizational Psychology Master's Program
Maybe you're not interested in the complete Master's Program, but you are looking for an organizational effectiveness program that will enable you to attain knowledge and skills that are directly related to your current professional challenges. We also offer our organizational effectiveness programs as an ExCEL certificate. This professional education certificate program is designed to offer students the same graduate-level learning opportunity, focused on specialized areas of interest. These organizational effectiveness programs are delivered in three separate eight-week online-blended sessions which can be taken either individually or all together as part of the certificate program. Learn more about all of organizational effectiveness programs, and all of our ExCEL certificate programs, to see how you can further your professional development and advance your career opportunities in just five short months.
Organizational Effectiveness Programs & Professional Development
If you’re a business professional looking for the tools that you need to improve your individual performance and advance your career, consider organizational effectiveness programs and executive education from The Chicago School. With a foundation in practical applied psychology, our organizational effectiveness programs have a unique ability to make a significant impact on personal and organizational performance. Don't wait any longer; take the next step towards professional development by obtaining the tools you need to advance your career. Learn more about organizational effectiveness programs and all of our continuing professional education opportunities today.
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