NS4237 Building Agency Capability in the Homeland Security Enterprise

The Building Agency Capability course explores organizational resilience at the corporate, team, and individual level. Students learn resilience frameworks and challenges as they consider and apply “force multiplier” concepts to Homeland Security Enterprise (HSE) challenges and contexts. Students examine existing agency capabilities with a critical comparative analytical eye. Students learn human capital issues in the HSE: i.e., how agencies develop resilience to ensure successful leadership at every level of the organization, or how networks that draw together diverse constituencies form and support HSE efforts through collective impact. The underpinnings of this course include comparative examples, including historic case studies that have direct applicability to the US model of homeland security (HS).

Prerequisite

Students are required to complete NS3180 before enrolling.

Lecture Hours

4

Lab Hours

0

Course Learning Outcomes

1. Analyze organizational resilience by using a variety of methodologies that have practical applicability to public safety and homeland security efforts
2. Demonstrate the ability to analyze their own agency’s “organizational landscape” and apply this knowledge to later create successful policy implementation plans based on that assessment
3. Demonstrate the ability to assess the impact of HS policy change upon their agency and to develop plans to mitigate anticipate opposition and obstruction to the successful implementation of that policy.
4. Build upon students’ familiarity with their own agency’s operational role, history and culture to craft “force multiplier” implantation strategies that directly address local HS risk and crisis conditions.
5. Clearly communicate HSE improvement plans, in both oral and written formats, as an essential element of the presentation of their proposed HS policy initiatives on completion of the CHDS Masters Course.