MN50652: Change in action project
[Page last updated: 15 October 2020]
 Academic Year: | 2020/1 |
| Owning Department/School: | School of Management |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 100% |
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| Description: | Aims: The aim of this course is to provide an appreciation of a number of concepts and models relating to the leadership and management of change in organizations in a live project context. Such an appreciation includes an understanding of the academic literature, but is ever mindful of the practical relevance of the subject. Therefore, the unit is concerned with both thinking about and doing of organizational change. Key aims include: * Providing students with a strong link between the management of change in theory and the management of change in practice. * Giving students the opportunity to experience real-world change-in-action by working with organisations in the process of significant change projects * To embed change management skills whilst working in diverse teams over a period of time Learning Outcomes: By the end of the Change in Action projects, students should have: * An understanding of organisational change in practice, the context in which it operates and how change can be effectively led * The facility to apply subject-specific knowledge into a range of change situations in practice * An ability to work with clients on change management challenges over a period of time and in a professional manner * An ability to develop innovative solutions to change management problems. Skills: Critical thinking - facilitated and assessed Research skills - facilitated and assessed Content: The course begins with an appreciation as to why organizational leadership & change is crucial to the design and performance of contemporary organizations in the private and public sector. It then covers a number of concepts, models and frameworks concerned with leading and managing change. The unit then applies these theories and concepts with live change in action projects, working with one or more organisations in the process of significant change. Teams of students work with a client to examine their current approaches to managing change and provide recommendations for how this might be improved. Through both the taught content and the work with clients, students explore a number of important topics involved in the change process such as transformational leadership; organizational culture and the possibility of cultural change; the role of stories and storytelling in processes of change, resistance, and change as a political process mediated by power. |
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MN50652 is Compulsory on the following programmes:School of Management
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