Dr Dorottya Sallai MAR.4.10

This course is available on the BSc in Management. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course is available to General Course students.

Exceptional permission cannot be granted to take this course where it clashes with another course. 

This course has a limited number of places (it is capped). The lectures for this course are not open for students to audit due to space restrictions.

Students must have completed Organisational Behaviour and Leadership (MG105).

Organisational Behaviour and Leadership (MG105) or equivalent.

Businesses operate in an increasingly complex environment, where change is a constant feature of business life. The impact of not managing change effectively can be devastating for small and large businesses alike. Getting people to change even when it is in their best interest is the most difficult task faced by today’s leaders. Yet, successful change can be achieved at the individual, team and organisational levels through the use of several practical tools and skills.

The course gives students an understanding of organisational change as a multifaceted phenomenon and equips them with skills to adopt a reflective, multi-dimensional approach when managing change in their future careers.

Topics addressed in the course will include:

• Identifying the need for change and diagnosing what to change
• Understanding organisational change strategies
• Managing internal power, stakeholders and politics
• Leadership in change
• Culture and mergers in change projects
• Resistance to change
• Fairness and change
• Communication and change
• Sustaining change and learning

Teaching hours in the WT will be commensurate with a usual half-unit undergraduate course.

This course includes a reading week in Week 6, in line with Departmental policy.

Students will be expected to complete one quiz and one mock case analysis (1000 words) in the WT

• ISE Managing Organizational Change: A Multiple Perspectives Approach 4th Edition, By Ian Palmer, Richard Dunford, David A. Buchanan, 2022 | Published: January 11, 2021 • The Theory and Practice of Change Management (5th Edition), John Hayes, Publisher: Red Globe Press, 2021
• Amis, J.M. & Greenwood, R., 2021. Organisational Change in a (Post‐) Pandemic World: Rediscovering Interests and Values. Journal of management studies, 58(2), pp.582–586. • Amis, J.M. & Janz, B.D., 2020. Leading Change in Response to COVID-19. The Journal of applied behavioral science, 56(3), pp.272–278.

Other (10%) and case analysis (80%) in the WT.
Class participation (10%).

Students will write a 2000 word case analysis of an unseen case. The readings, case studies, lectures, and classes will prepare you for the case analysis. It helps to summarise each reading, highlighting the most important concepts as we progress with the term.

The participation grade is based on presence and participation in the lecture and classes. Absence without reason in either the lecture or the class will influence the participation grade.

Students are expected to complete a simulation game and write a short reflection on the scenarios they completed at the end of week 11.

All summative grades are based on individual work, no group grades are given on this course.