Managing Organizational Change
Overview
- Credit value: 15 credits at Level 7
- Convenor: David Gamblin
- Tutors: Alistair Cumming, Adrian Ward
- Assessment: a 15-20-minute team-based presentation (20%) and 2000-word individual assignment (80%)
Module description
The module focuses primarily on the practical implementation challenges of managing change. It aims to:
- develop a critical understanding of change management theory and practice
- explore a variety of analytical approaches to managing change
- examine how change process in organisations can be effectively managed
- introduce some of the consulting tools and techniques used in successfully managing change
- review case studies of change management in private and public sector organisations
- examine the behavioural issues of how people make sense of, cope with or resist change in organisations.
Learning objectives
By the end of the module, you will be able to:
- apply and critically evaluate some of the key concepts and ideas of change management
- understand how change impacts on organisations
- diagnose and help facilitate change through the use of appropriate consulting tools and techniques.