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BMGT30100

Academic Year 2024/2025

Leadership and Change Management (BMGT30100)

Subject:
Business Management
College:
Business
School:
Business
Level:
3 (Degree)
Credits:
5
Module Coordinator:
Dr Dolores Smith Heffernan
Trimester:
Autumn
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

Course Overview.

Change affects all types of organizations within the public or private sectors while forces for change continue to grow and the pace of change is accelerating at an ever-increasing rate. Within this context this module is designed to introduce participants to the theories and practice of leading and managing change in contemporary organisations. It explores the hard (structure and strategy) and soft (people) issues of leading change which organizations need to understand in order to develop flexibility and adaptability in the face of an increasingly unpredictable environment.

The focus in the module is on responsible business as a core principle underwriting change management concepts with a particular emphasis on the importance of an ethical approach to the leadership of change . These principles of both Responsible Business and Ethical leadership underwrite many organisational issues such as communication with stakeholders, power and politics , learning and motivation as some of the many variables that make up the world of organisational life.

The module draws on past and current research identifying critical issues and debates around competing theories and accounts of leadership and its relationship to change practice. Participants tend to come from a wide range of international cultural and educational backgrounds which is highly facilitative of the global perspective of the change environment.


About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

On completing this module, students will be expected to be able to:
1. Critically appraise the key theoretical perspectives on organisational change.
2. Highlight the different types of change in organisational/social systems with a particular focus on the debate between planned and incremental/open-ended change;
3. Have acquired an ability to select diagnostic models/frameworks that might be used in various business settings/context to systematically diagnose organisational problems;
4. Identify the critical attributes of leaders and their key role during change.
5. Identify the range of change interventions or technologies available to managers in tackling diagnosed problems.
6. Identify the various issues and problems associated with the successful implementation of change
7. Recognise how organisations can learn from a programme of change so that adaptability and self-renewal become institutionalised.
8. Evaluate the forces which contribute to organisational change.
9. Assess the extent to which the theory informs / connects with the students own experience of change.

Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

24
Specified Learning Activities

26
Autonomous Student Learning

50
Total

100

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Lectures and associated discussion with highly participatory approach expected from students choosing the module.

Active Based Learning is balanced with reflective learning to help students integrate the material.

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 

Assessment Strategy
Description Timing Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade In Module Component Repeat Offered
Exam (In-person): This is an end of semester closed book exam used to assess students achievement of the learning outcomes of the module. End of trimester
Duration:
2 hr(s)
 Graded No
70
 No
Group Work Assignment: This is group work involing student participation in both the ongoing process hrough the module of building a group project based on a presentation and follow up paper . Week 7, Week 8, Week 9, Week 10, Week 11 Graded No
30
 No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Peer review activities

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Not yet recorded.

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
Autumn Lecture Offering 1 Week(s) - Autumn: All Weeks Tues 13:00 - 14:50
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