The pressure on organisations to change is constant. Faced with intense globalisation, organisations throughout the world must constantly innovate to keep up. Yet some of the methods managers have used in their attempt to transform their organisations, such as Total Quality Management, restructuring and cultural change, can only work if these changes are lead effectively.
Therefore, this module focuses on the role of leadership in bringing about successful organisational change. Understanding how to think about change, as well as how to management implementation, are increasingly important skills and competencies for managers in organisations today.
This module is structured and delivered to ensure that students understand the theoretical underpinnings of organisational change strategies, as well as gaining insight regarding how to diagnose forces for and barriers to change, and to exercise practical applications of change interventions through problem-solving case studies.
1. Organisations and their changing environments – context of change, triggers of change.
2. The nature of organisation change – Types of change
3. Strategies and models of change including diagnosis
4. Culture and Change
6. Politics and Change
7. Resistance to change
8. Leadership and Change
9. Engaging employees
10. The Organisation of the Future
To accomplish the module's aims, a variety of learning methods and activities will be utilised, including case studies, in-class discussions, classroom activities, and self-directed readings of textbooks and articles. Learning will be interactive and class sessions will require student participation.
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| Other Assessment(s) | 100 |