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 (50%) and 2000-word individual assignment (50%)
Module description
This module will examine how change management theory can inform and support change management practice whilst carrying out organisational change. Wherever possible, we will use live change issues as the context for testing out the value of theory and will examine a range of change management and consulting tools and techniques alongside academic concepts and frameworks in these cases and other case studies to evaluate their impact. The overall aim is to give both experienced and less experienced students direct access to real change problems and issues and develop their confidence and ability to provide practical solutions informed by literature and research.
Indicative module syllabus
- Diagnosing Change
- Analysing Culture
- Communicating Change
- Change Agency
- Resistance to Change
- Politics and Power
- Sustaining Change
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 and change tools and techniques.