Contemporary Issues in Managing Change

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 the political processes involved in managing change, the skills to construct a change management plan for future action, and the ability to modify the plan as required.
The course covers a number of emergent international models of organisational change and their application to a series of case studies.

Course content

Introduction to managing change, anticipating change; linking strategy, theories and models of change, planning and evaluating change, organisational culture and change, resistance, leading change, change roles, communicating during change, measuring achievement, politics of change.

Textbook(s)

Cawsey, TF, Deszca, G & Ingols, C 2012, Organizational change: an action-oriented toolkit, 2nd edn, SAGE Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA

Prerequisite(s)

Nil

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Seminar	3 hours x 11 weeks
EXTERNAL, CITY WEST, ONLINE
External (Asynchronous online discussion)	3 hours equiv. x 11 weeks
EXTERNAL, OFFSHORE, HOPKINS TRAINING AND EDUCATION GROUP, ONLINE
External (Asynchronous online discussion)	3 hours equiv. 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 Model - Individual presentation and essay, Contribution to online discussion, Group assignment, Group presentation and executive summary, Individual Change Management Plan

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 3)
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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.