BUSI40X15: CHANGE MANAGEMENT: THEORY AND PRACTICE (EXECUTIVE)

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• To provide students with an in-depth understanding, at an advanced level, of the complexities of the theory and practice of change, and how shaping implementation strategies and managing change can be improved by specialist techniques such as managing the people issues. Emphasis is placed on critically evaluating the types of interventions.

• Core concepts: the nature of change; organisational effectiveness and the nature of change management; process models.
• Recognising and diagnosing the need for change: recognising the need for change; diagnostic models.
• Managing the people issues: power, politics and stakeholder management; the role of leadership in change management; communicating change.
• Shaping implementation strategies and managing the change: effective change strategies; maintaining control.
• Interventions: types of interventions.
• Sustaining change: the role of performance measures in the management of change; managing and monitoring the implementation; modes of intervening to sustain the change.

Subject-specific Knowledge:

• By the end of this module, students should be able to:
• critically evaluate the concepts of change and how they apply in different contexts.

Subject-specific Skills:

• By the end of this module, students should:
• be able to recognise and diagnose the need for change using appropriate models;
• be able to shape implementation strategies using appropriate specialist techniques;
• have a critical awareness of techniques for sustaining change interventions and for managing people during change interventions.

Key Skills:

• Effective written communication.
• Planning, organising and time management.
• Problem solving and analysis.
• Using initiative.
• Computer literacy.

• Learning outcomes will be met through a combination of lectures, groupwork, case studies and discussion, supported by guided reading. The written assignment will test students' understanding of relevant concepts and their ability to apply and interpret what they have learned in the context of a specific change intervention.

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