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Area/Catalogue
BUSS 5065

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Course Level
Postgraduate

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Offered Externally
Yes

Note: This offering may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

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Course ID
011872

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Unit Value
4.5

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University-wide elective course
No

Course owner

Course owner
School of Management

Course aim

The course enables students to understand the change process and manage change effectively, by equipping them with a working knowledge of the change management literature, an understanding of organisational politics and the processes involved in managing change, the skills to construct a change management plan for future action, and the ability to modify the plan if and when necessary. The course covers several local and international models of organisational change and their application through the case study method.

Course content

Images of managing change, diagnosis for change, models of change, change management skills, local and international case studies, planning for change, resistance to change, strategies for communicating change, implementing change, consolidating change.

Textbook(s)

Palmer, I, Dunford, R and Akin, G 2009, Managing Organisational Change, 2nd, McGraw-Hill/Irwin, NY

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component Duration
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Seminar 3 hours x 11 weeks
EXTERNAL, CITY WEST, ONLINE
External 2 hours x 11 weeks
External (Online staff consultation) 1 hour x 11 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.


Assessment

Change analysis, Critical essay, Group Change project: presentation (15%) and report (35%), Individual Change project report

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 3)
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Fee-paying program for domestic and international students
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.

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