Organisational Learning, Change and Resilience for Disaster Interventions
Reflect on why organisational learning and change can be so challenging.
Duration
2 weeksWeekly study
10 hours
Organisational Learning, Change and Resilience for Disaster Interventions
This short course will consider how to identify areas for development in organisations and operations and how to ensure that positive change is made. It introduces the idea of meta accountability – being accountable for accountability.
In addition, you will look more broadly at organisational resilience and how it can be developed by organisations operating in high risk environments.
What topics will you cover?
- Using evaluation to inform practice
- Making changes
- Organisational resilience and transformation
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Critique organisational strategies for change and improvement
- Identify factors that limit organisational change and improvement in the context of effective operations and accountability
- Propose organisational changes to increase resilience
Who is the course for?
This course is for anyone looking to learn more about organisational change, resilience and transformation in order to implement more effective disaster interventions.
Please note that the individuals detailed in the ‘Who will you learn with?’ section below, are current staff members and may be subject to change.
Who will you learn with?
Principal Lecturer in Disaster Management, 18 years experience working internationally and in the UK. Teaching and research interests in risk, resilience, climate change and community engagement
Who developed the course?
Coventry University
Coventry secured 5 QS Stars for Teaching and Online Learning in the QS World University Ranking 2020 and has received No. 1 in the world for Massive Open Online Courses in MoocLab’s World University Ranking 2021.
Established
1992Location
Coventry
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