Module code: HRM7021-A
1. To provide a framework for a critical understanding of the issues associated with managing change in organisations. 2. To provide opportunities for reflecting on real change in organisations.3. To consider how change can be delivered in an ethical and sustainable manner.
The module is predicated on a systemic view of change and organisations and seeks to offer students an integrative framework for understanding and managing change, including consideration of how to ensure change is understood, responded to, handled and managed in an organisation.
1. Understanding change - the nature and forms of changes, managerial responses and approaches, a systems view of an organisation
2.The environment and context for change - internal and external influences, the scale and impact of change and responses at the cultural and structural levels in organisations
3. Preparing for change - diagnostic models of change and organisations, creating awareness and getting people ready for change (unfreezing), developing a change enabled mind-set, setting strategy and plans
4. Implementing change - models and approaches for undertaking change - process view and n-step approaches
5.Enabling Change - issues of motivation for and resistance against, models of change agency, leadership and their implications
6. Communicating change - effective models of change communication, barriers and enablers to effective ethical communication, sense making and politics.
7. Evaluating change effectiveness - the need for vision, consideration of success and failure and, models for effective monitoring, evaluation and assessment of the impact from change.
8. Sustaining change, implications of sustainability for change, timescales.