Managing Organisational Change

Unit code: BMO3332 | Study level: Undergraduate
12
(Generally, 1 credit = 10 hours of classes and independent study.)
City Campus
India Online
Online Real Time
VU Online
VU Sydney
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Overview
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Overview

In this unit you will develop approaches to, and methods of, change that foster organisational responsiveness to the rapidly changing and competitive business environments. You will develop a clear understanding of key changes necessary for organisations to bring about innovative and sustainable ways of achieving improved business performance and the issues underlying these.



An understanding of organisational change will help you imagine and forecast how organisations will continue to change over the next decade, and how this might affect employees, organisations and the community.



You will be introduced to a framework for rethinking contemporary organisational change and management experiences, and for gaining a critical appreciation of future innovative change management practices. This will help you identify, the problem and what needs to change with opportunities available and how to lead and manage change today and into the future with appropriate solutions.

Learning Outcomes

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

  1. Enquire and critique the nature, causes and dynamics of organisational change;
  2. Critically review and distil key issues affecting change in organisations;
  3. Explain, evaluate and propose modifications to the theories, models, principles and concepts of change in organisations to better support innovative and environmentally sustainable approaches to successful organisational change occurring in particular settings;
  4. Collaborate in order to effectively communicate and contribute to change culture in contemporary organisations or community settings; and,
  5. Reflect on behavioural complexities associated to organisational change.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment type: Review
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Grade: 20%
Research news critical analysis
Assessment type: Report
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Grade: 30%
Organisational change report (Group)
Assessment type: Presentation
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Grade: 20%
Change Roadmap presentation (Group)
Assessment type: Journal
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Grade: 30%
Learning reflection

Required reading

Students will have access to required readings via VU Collaborate and are not required to purchase the listed textbooks.

Organisation Change: Development and Transformation
Waddell, D., Creed, A., Cummings, T.G & Worley, C.G. (2019).| Australia: Cengage Learning.
Managing Change: Enquiry and Action.
Beech, N., MacIntosh, R., Krust, P., Kannan, S. and Dadich, A. (2017).| Victoria: Cambridge University Press.

As part of a course

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