Managing Strategic Change

RATIONALE
To explore the nature of organizational culture and its impact on employees, and to
enable students to develop a critical awareness of organizational theory and practice;
enabling them to deal with problems, choices and constraints involved in
organizational change. The module encourages students to develop their own
intellectual framework of values, attitudes and practice in relation to managing change.

AIMS
 To develop students’ understanding of, and capacity to deal with, problems,
choices and constraints involved in managing organizational change.
 To develop a high level of criticality when faced with selecting appropriate
approaches to managing change.
 To develop, based on their reflexive and reflective learning, critical evaluation
of the ways in which organizational performance can be enhanced through
people.

LEARNING OUTCOMES
On successful completion of this module, the student will be able to:
 Rationalise strategic choice on the basis of contextual analysis.
 Identify the managerial and resource implications of implementing strategic
change
 Diagnose and analyse strategic and organizational change issues
 Critically evaluate the outcomes of change interventions
INDICATIVE CONTENT
 Organizational structure, systems, control and power
 Understanding organizational culture
 Continuity and change
 Organizational politics and managing change
 Planned and unplanned change: unintended consequences
 Critical evaluation of linear and process based change
 Perception, sense making and response to change