MSc Management and Information Systems: Change and Development
Year of entry: 2025
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Course unit details:
Organisational Change Strategies
Unit code | MGDI70882 |
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Credit rating | 15 |
Unit level | FHEQ level 7 – master's degree or fourth year of an integrated master's degree |
Teaching period(s) | Semester 2 |
Available as a free choice unit? | No |
Overview
This course unit aims to help participants understand the emergence of new types of organisation, and analyse strategies and techniques that are applied to support organisational change.
Aims
This course unit aims to help participants understand the emergence of new types of organisation, and analyse strategies and techniques that are applied to support organisational change.
Learning outcomes
- Understand the implications of new organisational forms within different development contexts, and the changes that it implies.
- Understand assessment frameworks for the implementation of organisational change and the impacts of change.
- Critically appraise and contribute to the strategies and processes of change that are part of current conceptions of the new organisation, such as knowledge management and business process re-engineering.
Syllabus
Week 1: The New Organisation
Week 2: Understanding Organisational Change
Week 3: Managing Organisational Change
Week 4: Managing Organisational Change Case Study
Week 5: Business Process Reengineering
Week 6: Outsourcing
Week 7: Customer Orientation
Week 8: Knowledge Management
Week 9: Empowerment
Week 10: Summation/Debate
Teaching and learning methods
-Lectures
-Tutorials
-Group work
-Case study analysis
Knowledge and understanding
-Understanding the complexity and interdependence of change using diagnostic models, e.g., Weisbord Model, Congruence model and 7S model.
-Organisational and group level change - change strategies: BPR/TQM; Outsourcing; Customer orientation; Knowledge management; Empowerment
Intellectual skills
-Applying and adapting change assessment models to specific organisational change case studies
-Case study analysis
Practical skills
-Applying techniques to decide why organisations need to change (SWOT, environment analysis)
-Determining who and what can change (force field analysis, drivers and constraints, readiness and capability for change)
Transferable skills and personal qualities
-Team/group work skills
Employability skills
- Other
- -Experience gained with practical change strategies that are relevant to contemporary organisations: BPR/TQM; Outsourcing; Customer orientation; Knowledge management; Empowerment.
Assessment methods
Method | Weight |
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Written assignment (inc essay) | 100% |
- Written assignment (3,000 words)
Feedback methods
Groupwork feedback from students (weeks 5-9)
Feedback to students on case study analysis (weeks (weeks 2-4)
Recommended reading
- B. Senior & Swailes, S. (2016) Organisational Change (5th Ed). Financial Times/Prentice-Hall, Harlow, Essex.
- Cameron, E. & Green, M. (2015) Making sense of change management: a complete guide to the models, tools and techniques of organisational change. 4th ed. London: Kogan Page.
- Carnall, C. & Todnem By, R. (2014) Managing Change in Organisations (6th Edition), Pearson, Harlow.
- Burnes, B. (2014) Managing Change (6th Ed), Pearson, Harlow, Essex.
- Myers, P., Hulks, S. & Wiggins, L. (2012) Organisational Change: Perspectives on Theory and Practice, Oxford University Press.
- Rosenbaum, D., More, E. & Steane, P. (2018) Planned organisational change management: Forward to the past? An exploratory literature review, Journal of Change Management, Vol 31 (2): 286-303
- Burnes, B. & Jackson, P. (2011) Introduction: Why does change fail, and what can we do about it?, Journal of Change Management, 11(4): 445-450
- Todnemby, R. (2005) Organisational Change Management: A Critical Review, Journal of Change Management, 5 (4): 369-380.
Study hours
Scheduled activity hours | |
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Lectures | 20 |
Tutorials | 10 |
Independent study hours | |
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Independent study | 120 |
Teaching staff
Staff member | Role |
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Richard Duncombe | Unit coordinator |