Leading and Managing Change

RATIONALE 

Understanding the complex nature of managing change is fundamental to students’ development of more sophisticated approaches to leading and managing organizational change, therefore, the module explores the nature and plurality inherent within organisational culture in relation to the problems, choices and constraints involved in organisational change. The module encourages and empowers students to develop their own intellectual framework of values, attitudes and practice, and equips them with a nuanced understanding of relevant issues that enables them to develop their own thinking on the subject and their future roles as managers.  Overall, the module will stretch the extent to which students will be required to explore issues from critical perspectives, which is a key element of study at Level 6. By the end of the module, students will have a broader and deeper understanding of organization in relation to managing change and will have required them to think about their own attitudes, aptitude and skills with regard to managing change; and be more thoughtful and innovative about how change may be managed – key attributes that employability attributes. 

AIMS  

Through the completion of this module students will: 

• Develop students’ understanding of, and capacity to deal with, problems, choices and constraints inherent within organisational change. 
• Develop a high level of criticality when faced with selecting approaches to leading and managing organisational change. 
• Develop a deeper understanding of the rational-emotional responses to organisational change. 

LEARNING OUTCOMES  

On successful completion of this module, students will be able to: 

1. Evaluate, from critical perspectives, the impact of organisational culture on employee attitude and behaviour, in general and in relation to change. 
2. Evaluate different management / leadership styles in relation to managing change. 
3. Analyse the influence of position, power, control and organisational politics and the role they play in determining the process and outcomes of organisational change.