Session Summary

Session Number:744
Session ID:S84
Session Title:Revisiting the Role of Experiential and Case-Based Education in OD&C
Short Title:Revisiting ODC Education
Session Type:Division Symposium
Hotel:Hyatt East
Floor:LL2
Room:Columbus A
Time:Monday, August 09, 1999 1:00 PM - 2:10 PM

Sponsors

ODC  (Rami Shani)ashani@calpoly.edu (805) 756-1756 

General People

Chair Varney, Glenn H. Bowling Green State U. gvarney@cba.bgsu.edu (419)-352-7782 
Discussant Cummings, Tom G. U. of Southern California tcumming@bus.usc.edu (213)-740-0733 
Discussant Glassman, Alan  California State U., Northridge alan.glassman@csun.edu (818)-885-2457 
Discussant Golembiewski, Robert T. U. of Georgia rtgolem@arches.uga.edu (607)-255-8361 
Discussant McFillen, James M. Bowling Green State U. jmcfill@cba.bgsu.edu (419)-372-2488 

Submissions

Abstract

OD&C faculty are expected to teach executives, consultants, and college students both the science and art of achieving change in organizations. The science includes the technology of change and the theories that underlie it. The art includes not only the skills associated with the technology of change, but the appreciation of change as a nonlinear, dynamic process. Cases and experiential learning are required to move beyond a rote grasp of the OD&C subject matter to attaining a real facility with the technology of change. This symposium presents an argument for using an intensive, integrative, multi-methods case approach to OD&C education. This methodology is equally applicable to practitioner training and university settings. The symposium will be relevant to OD&C educators regardless of whether they are teaching executives, consultants, or college students. Although education in OD&C would appear to call for extensive use of experience-based learning, the books available for classroom use generally are traditional texts or collections of readings. The only OD&C case book, Glassman and Cummings, went out of print after the first printing. This symposium will address four issues in an attempt to rekindle an interest in an expanded and more creative use of the case approach in OD&C education: 1. current use of the case method in OD&C education 2. misuse of the case method in OD&C education 3. importance of transfer of experience (TOE) in OD&C education 4. use of a new multi-method case approach in OD&C education to enhance TOE.