The Organizational Development Master's Degree Program prepares professionals to facilitate the innovation process in organizations by focusing on individual and group development.

Graduates are trained to significantly the improvement improve the work climate and culture, the human resources, and the administrative processes of businesses by responding positively to the challenges and transformations of local and global organizations.

Objective

To create proefessionals capable of facilitating change processes in organizations through a global approach and diversity management. These professionals center their work on the individual and group development of the members of the organization.

Top Notch Education

The Organizational Development Master's Degree Program offers students a unique learning experience through:

• The modular system, which allows follow up on the personal and professional growth of students.
• An active student learning community, sustained by group interaction, and focusing on individual growth under the guidance of a tutor.
• The "experiential laboratory" method that promotes active learning in real situations.
• Methodologies of applied research, innovation, and change consultancy to improve organizations.
• Developing knowledge and the ability to handle cultural diversity by going on national and international field trips.
• Promoting participation in international Organizational Development conferences.
• Group tutor who follows up on the learning process for the entire two¿year period.

Graduates from the Organizational Development Master's Degree Program:

• Work as agents of change, aligning business strategies with the development of human and organizational capital, and suggesting short, medium and long-term solutions.
• Analyze and diagnose different human and organizational processes, in order to suggest and implement ways of improving them.
• Master the handling of diversity through international field trips and by developing intervention projects for innovation and change in global organizations.

Enrollment Profile

• Is a college graduate with working experience
• Is currently working
• Has a positive attitude towards change, as well as a service-oriented attitude.
• Is able to work well in teams
• Makes sound judgments and possesses common sense
• Is creative and innovative
• Is committed to society
• Is pragmatic, logical, and strong at analytical reasoning

Graduate Profile

Knowledge:

• Behavioral sciences
• Organizational culture
• Understanding of business surroundings
• Systemic approaches
• Diagnosis of human resources and management system
• Theories of change and innovation
• Conceptualize and plan improvement projects
• Strategy and planning

Skills:

• Decision-making
• Leadership
• Number skills
• Use of computers as a tool in decision-making and problem evaluation
• Diagnose human and management systems
• Oral and written bilingual communication
• Teamwork
• Strong negotiation capacities
• Able to identify, analyze, synthesize, and interpret information
• Organizational sensitivity
• Creativity and innovation

Attitudes: 

• Openness to diversity
• Constant learning
• Improvement
• Helpfulness
• Objectivity and independent judgment
• Continuous academic updating
• Proactive to change
• Hightened ethical and social sense

Organizational Development Master's Degree Program

1st trimester	2nd trimester	3rd trimester	4th trimester	5th trimester	6th trimester
Integration of the Learning Community	Introduction to Organizational Development	Active Approaches on the Change Cycle	Fundamentals on Organizational Change	International Cultural Perspectives	Wrapping up the Learning Community
Elective Course	Fundamentals of Research-Action	Elective Course	Elective Course	Elective Course	Elective Course
Problem Identification and Diagnostic Techniques	Documental Research	Selling Innovation and Change Projects	Innovation and Change Projects Design	Innovation and Change Projects Display	Innovation and Change Projects Assessment and Documentation
Professional Skills I	Professional Skills II	Professional Skills III	Professional Skills IV	Professional Skills V	Professional Skills VI

Integration of the Learning Community
Objective: Prepare students for total participation in the MDO program by providing them with the program's overview, general comments on this line of work and instructions for using MDO supporting technology. The unique environment of MDO learning will also be structured and will promote an opportunity for experiential learning and service. 

Introduction to Organizational Development
Objective: Learning the theory of Organizational Development and the fundamental practices. Obtain learning from a wide range of organizations in an international environment where students will be exposed to: strategic development and the implementation of cases, organizational problems, institutional success; ability to respond to the external environment, systems dynamics, human dynamics; leadership, administration and interpersonal styles; response to external intervention (students¿ field trips) and observation of organizational cultures. 

Active Approaches on the Change Cycle
Objective: In-depth study of the various theories on change and human systems development. Obtain learning from a wide variety of organizations in an international environment, during which the students will be exposed to: strategic development and implementation of cases, organizational problems, institutional success, and gain the ability to respond to the external environment, system dynamics, human dynamics, leadership, administration and interpersonal styles, respond to external intervention (students' field trips) and to observe organizational cultures. The student will experiment with and analyze group dynamics as they occur in the learning laboratory and will correlate them with the activities occurring in organizations. Additionally, the student will examine norms, values, beliefs and assumptions impacting the dynamics of organizational change and will develop intrapersonal and interpersonal skills by experiencing a foreign culture.

Fundamentals on Organizational Change
Objective: Experience the final stages of the Change Cycle in an experiential environment. The MDO course materials that have been prepared separately will be integrated; interaction with and learning from leaders and performers of change is encouraged and the Project for Change is launched.

International Cultural Perspectives
Objective: Explore the trans-organizational, global and dynamic considerations of change from a theoretical perspective. Experience the dimensions of culture in ¿non familiar¿ scenarios in order to learn from a wide range of organizations.

Wrapping up the Learning Community
Objective: Synthesize the learning activities and objectives from the MDO program.. The students will submit findings from their Project for Change and from their Research-Action Project. They will take written and oral exams, close the learning teams, give and receive personal feedback and they will wrap up the learning community. 

Fundamentals of Research-Action
Objective: Understand the relevance and importance of Research-Action in Organizational Development, and develop a clear understanding of how to proceed with the Research-Action Project.

ELECTIVE COURSES

Introduction to Leadership Objective: This is a research course that explores diversity from over 10,000 leadership studies. The students will rigorously study the existing leadership theories and models and will synthesize these to form their own leadership model that connects leadership and organizational development.

High-Level Strategic Dynamics of Change Objective: This course will develop the student¿s ability to guide the Change Cycle from a position of leadership.

Leadership Experiences in the Change Cycle Objective: Practice leading group interventions in all the phases of the change cycle.

Leadership and Strategy Practical Approaches Objective: This course explores the theory of strategy and the development of practical methods to build and implement a strategy.

Organizational Theory and Structure Objective: This course covers theoretical fundamentals explaining: a) what the organizations must achieve by existing, b) how they are commonly structured in order to achieve these goals and c) the efficient design of an organizations, with a purpose.

International Leadership Perspectives Objective: This course researches successful cases of leadership during planned and non-planned changes that have occurred in different parts of the world during different time periods. This course will enable students to explore the efficiency of different approaches to change and to contribute to their own models for change.

Impact of National Culture on a Process of Change Objective: This course looks thoroughly into Mexican Culture, the Mexican business environment, Mexican non-profit environment and links these findings with the national values, beliefs and assumptions that promote or prevent a desired change in Mexico. The students will develop scenarios to catalyze change on a large scale, at a nationwide level, as a means to internalize on its learning and for students to develop their own models of change from the perspective of a leader in Mexico.

Group Dynamics and Organizational Dynamics Objective: This course establishes the types, characteristics, dynamics and uses of sub-groups within the great social systems (e.g. teams and groups) and develops models and methods for change.

Leaders of Change Skills and Competencies Objective: Identify and assess key skills an effective leader must have as an agent of change. The students will identify the key skills of an effective agent of change; they will assess their own level in these skills and will then further develop them.

Systems and Change Objective: Identify the relationships that exist between the various processes of an organizational system in order to anticipate and react to the intended or non-intended consequences of the planned change.

INNOVATION AND CHANGE WORKSHOPS

Problem Identification and Diagnostic Techniques Objective: Introduce innovation and change topics that will prepare the students in identifying the problems they will face in their job when carrying out a project of change using the Research-Action methodology.

Documental Research Objective: Guide the students in the execution of the documental research required to prepare the theoretical framework of their innovation and change project.

Selling Innovation and Change Projects  Objective: Perform a plan of implementation in order to be accepted by the directors of the organization in which the project will be executed. A team will be put together to accompany the student in this experience.

Innovation and Change Project Design  Objective: Design the phases of the innovation and change project in its application to an actual client.

Innovation and Change Project Display Objective: Implement the phases of the plan designed for the innovation and change project with an actual client.

Innovation and Change Projects Assessment and Documentation Objective: Assess the results of implementing the innovation and change project as applied to an actual client.

The Professional Skills Workshops seek to complement the students' academic training by developing practical applications to promote efficiency in competitiveness and innovation. 

Students must complete all four mandatory workshops and two optional workshops.

MANDATORY PROFESSIONAL SKILLS WORKSHOP

Structured Problem-Solving:  Objective: Understand the tools for problem¿solving, with an emphasis on analyzing the problem, isolating key issues, and generating solutions through structured planning.

Logical Reasoning and Communication: Objective: Develop skills to structure and communicate arguments effectively. These include such skills as organizing ideas hierarchically, avoiding stylistic weaknesses, and using simple, direct phrasing and an audience specific vocabulary.

Effective Negotiating:  Objective: Learn to succeed in negotiations by focusing on identifying diverse interests, creating mutually profitable solutions, and promoting fairness. This workshop is based on the Harvard Negotiation Project, which identifies the basic elements that enable negotiators to reach mutually suitable agreements.

Making Ethical Decisions:  Objective: Develop skills to evaluate the ethical implications of professional and personal decisions in a disciplined manner. Learn paradigm-questioning skills, how to detect potential ethical risks, and how to use Kohlberg's moral development model as a tool for assessing ethical arguments.

OPTIONAL PROFESSIONAL SKILLS WORKSHOP

Effective Presentations: Objective: Learn to perform well in front of an audience by improving your presentation preparation and your mastery of the available equipment, and by clearly defining your message and effectively using your voice and body language to convey it.

Effective Leadership: Strengthen your leadership skills by learning how to manage people and situations so as to bring professional and personal projects to a successful outcome.

Understanding Global Settings:  Objective: Study the current trends towards globalization by identifying the world wide effects of the industrial, commercial, financial, and political globalization of the world¿s most important organizations. Become familiar with concepts created by globalization: the right to development, the right to peace, the rights of future generations, the right to the common human heritage, among others.

Project management:  Objective: Learn to formally manage projects using the Project Management Institute (PMI) methodology, which focuses on basic processes, terminology, techniques, and tools. Develop the skills to structure the objectives and scope of a project, to negotiate expectations, and to estimate the duration, costs, risks, and necessary human resources.

Encouraging Creativity:  Objective: Stimulate your creativity through brainstorming, Synectics (make the strange familiar and the familiar strange), the CoRT method, scenario creation, use of metaphors and analogies, graphic - visual thought, and other thinking techniques.

The Organizational Development Master's Degree Program is taught in a modular system which will consist of intensive trimesters where courses will be taught on a full-day basis, with the objective of creating a true learning community, enhanced by the interaction of participants and the guidance of a tutor.

The students in this program must enroll in two courses and two workshops for each trimester (ending in a two-year period). Students attend classes five days per trimester (Wednesday to Sunday) during which both courses will be completed in an intensive manner.

In general, workshops will be taken by attending one of them on two additional days (Friday and Saturday) during the trimester, and the other one will be taken on-line.

This program is enhanced with field learning that is integrated as part of the courses. Students participate on one national field trip and on one international trip.

Additionally, two courses will be taken along with students from the MSOD (Organizational Development Science Master's Degree Program) and from the Doctorate in Leadership (Organizational Leadership Doctoral Program) from Pepperdine University in California.

Students enrolled with a full course load will have a schedule similar to the following:

	S	M	T	W	TH	F	S
June	Learning Community			Learning Community	Learning Community	Learning Community	Learning Community
July	Problem Identification and Diagnostic Techniques			Problem Identification and Diagnostic Techniques	Problem Identification and Diagnostic Techniques	Problem Identification and Diagnostic Techniques	Problem Identification and Diagnostic Techniques
August						Global Competence Workshop	Global Competence Workshop

To enroll in the Organizational Development Master's Degree Program the following requirements must be fulfilled:

• Hold a corresponding Undergraduate Degree.
• Have at least two years of professional experience and be currently working.
• Attend an interview with the Business Master's Degree Programs Director.
• Submit your résumé and a cover letter explaining the reasons why you wish to enroll in the Master's Degree program.
• Submit an Application for Admission to the Graduate Program along with the required documentation.}[See the application in PDF format: admision_posgrado {admission_graduateprogram}]
• Pass the Graduate Studies Admission Test ¿ [Prueba de Admisión para Estudios de Posgrado (PAEP)].
• Take an English diagnostic exam.

Establishing projects that connect the academic world to productive and social organizations is a fundamental objective of the UDEM. To meet this goal, we have been signed research or applied innovation agreements with renowned national and international institutions.

Some of the research projects supported by this process are listed below:

1. Promoting Transition Towards a Strategic Change Planned in a Middle-Size Company.
   Students: María Zulema Puente Hernández, Manuel Garza Hinojosa and Roberto Martínez Elizondo
   Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2009
2. Staffing of a High-Performance Team in a Radio Station Organization
   Students: Juan Luis Garza Treviño Jr., Ana María Romero Bravo and Marina Molina Spota
   Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2009
3. Knowing the Partner: An Effective Strategy for Attracting and Retaining Him/Her.
   Students: Jorge Américo Bringas Rodríguez, Claudia Irene García Rodríguez, Martha Silvia Piñones Velasco and Eduardo Xavier Villarreal Treviño
   Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2009
4. Creating and Activating Initiatives for Change
   Students: Miguel A. Almaguer Ortega, Martha Isela Arjona Almaguer, Liza Paola Garza Rivera and Víctor Hugo Padilla García
   Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2008
5. Retaining the Client
   Students: Luis Fidel López Hernández, Francisco Xavier Valdés Gómez, María Cristina Villarreal Mora and Olga Mercedes Cantu Vega
   Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2008
6. Creation of the Vision, Mission And Values in a Sports Club's Sports Manager's Office
   Students: Rolando Kleen González, David López Morales and Jennifer Mamán Applewhite
   Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2008
7. Strengthening the Skills of the Top Management Team in a Non-Profit Organization
   Students: Ma. Teresa de Jesús Bortoni Evans, Artemio Hernández Vázquez, Alejandro Márquez Murrieta and William McClintock González
   Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2008
8. Feedback on the Organizational Diagnosis Results in a Company with Strategic Alignment Problems in Top Management.
   Students: José Juan Carranza Garduño, Miguel Ángel Prado Morales, Ángel Alberto Rivera Gomez and Claudia Guadalupe Ugalde Garza
   Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2008
9. Project of Change at a Managers' Level in a Manufacturing Plant: Working for a Better Team.
   Students: Francisco Javier de la Cruz Aguirre, Adriana Marcela García Vignau, Israel López Pedrero and Ana Margarita Rivero Arias
   Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2008
10. Design the Performance Assessment in a Construction Industry Organization
    Students: Amparo Valle Tamez, Eduardo Pérez-Valdés and Paula Zorrilla- Amaya
    Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2008
11. Project of Change and Intervention in an Institution Providing Services to Handicapped Persons.
    Students: Daniela Ayala Carrera, Verónica Monjarás García and Sandra Olivia Munive Gómez
    Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2008
12. Project of Change in an American Organization Applying the Grounded Theory Methodology.
    Student: Gabriela A. Beltrán Santos
    Monterrey, Nuevo León, 2008

Guadalupe Martínez

De León

MDO Academic Program Director

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gmartinez30@udem.edu.mx

Building 6, office 6117

T. (81) 8215-1000, ext. 1567
01 800-801-UDEM, ext. 1567