Contemporary Issues in Managing Change

Course aim

This course provides students with theoretical and practical knowledge of organisational change and change management, and explores their impact on organisational management and leadership, business strategy, and business conduct. The course critically explores the change process, change management strategies, the political processes involved in managing change, and the skills to construct and impliment a change management plan. The course covers a number of emergent international models of organisational change and their application to a series of case studies.

Students completing the course develop a body of knowledge that:

• Contributes to a comprehensive and integrated application of principles of change management to recent developments in the field of senior organisational management and leadership in international business environments.
• Provides a pathway for further learning.

Course content

Topics covered in this course include:

• Introduction to managing change.
• Anticipating change.
• Linking strategy, theories and models of change.
• Planning and evaluating change.
• Organisational culture and change.
• Resistance, leading change and 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

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
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