Doctoral Degree in OD

The Doctorate degree programme will take a minimum of three-and-half years and a maximum of five years. Like the Masters in OD programme, students who have already undertaken an acceptable accredited Post-graduate Diploma in OD course or the Masters version, may be able to complete the programme in a shorter period depending on the amount of acceptable credit hours they are able to transfer in their favour to the programme.

Interested readers should contact the OCIC-UCC Partnership through the OCIC website contact page

Practical Attachment for the Doctors’ Programme:
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Depending on the students’ background, the first part of the doctors’ programme will constitute a taught programme of seven modules and the remaining five modules spent as an attachment period with an approved OD Consultancy firm. The eighth to twelve modules are designed to expose the students to the practice of OD. Those who registered for the Doctor’s programme, unless differently agreed, will undertake all five attachment modules.

During this period they will be expected to bring into practice all the theories they learned in the class room. At the end of the five attachments modules, students will be able to:

  1. Identify an opportunity to help a client
  2. Successfully market OD services
  3. Undertake OD interventions
  4. Submit intervention reports on the OD Consultancy services undertaken.

During the attachment period with, preferrably, an OD consultancy firm, a period during which students are expected to:

1. Write and Submit not less than three proposals
2. Generate at least two Doctor’s OD Consultancy Assignments
3. Plan the Consultancy Assignments they generated
4. Implement the Consultancy Assignments they generated
5. Evaluate the Consultancy Assignments they implemented
6. Submit (”OD full-cycle”) three written reports on the assignments undertaken for assessment.

BENEFITS

  • Assess the capacity of an Organisation.
  • Assess the effectiveness of teams.
  • Conduct an Organisational culture assessment.
  • Build work teams.
  • Undertake effective Coaching.
  • Effectively Resolve Conflicts.
  • Conduct Strategic-planning interventions.
  • Undertake Large Systems intervention

The Organisation Development (OD) Institute, USA, has accredited the OD Postgraduate Programmes. It has already been mounted successfully in Kenya, Ethiopia and Ghana.

WHO CAN ATTEND?

The programme is open to personnel working in:

  • Public Institutions,
  • The Private Sector,
  • Non-Government Organisations,
  • Practicing Consultants,
  • Human Resource Specialists,
  • Business Managers,
  • Lecturers who want to go into Consulting and
  • Educational Institutions, (i.e. Polytechnics and other Tertiary Institutions).