EDOD 692 - Seminar: Human Resource Development

This course provides an introduction to scenario planning. Students will learn the techniques, methods, and theories that serve as the basis for this alternative approach to strategy in organizations. Scenarios provide frameworks for managers to exercise judgment under uncertain conditions and move toward decisions based on a wider understanding of the issues and problems facing organizations.

This course can be applied towards the:

• Organizational Performance and Change (M.Ed.)

Textbooks and Materials

Handouts will be provided by the instructor. No books are required.

Instructors

Tom Chermack

Thomas J. Chermack is an Assistant Professor at Colorado State University in the Organizational Performance and Change program.

Chermack worked as a consultant with Personnel Decisions International for eight years leading efforts in training, change management initiatives, organization development interventions and high performance work team initiations. During this time he also began his path into academics. Chermack's research focuses on the process and products of scenario planning (an alternative to traditional strategic planning). This unique approach to planning was born at Royal Dutch / Shell Oil and is largely credited with the ability to anticipate and navigate fundamental market changes and shifts.

He has authored over 50 research reports, and his research has appeared in scholarly publications such as Futures, Futures Research Quarterly, Human Resource Development Review, The Academy of Strategic Management Journal, and the Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies among others.

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