SBUS41900 Diagnostic Models&OrgAnalysi

Academic Year 2023/2024

This module will address the key frameworks to assist practitioners in assessing organisational health. Specific attention will be directed at enhancing participants’ familiarity and critical reflection on the frameworks presented.
Organisational diagnosis, studies in the area of Organisational Development and Change are preoccupied with three main issues:
1. Development of organisational diagnostic models
2. The choice of procedures and methods for data collecting in diagnosis
3. Methods and techniques of data processing and making conclusions
This module will focus on organisational analysis and determining the need and capacity for change and growth.
• Organisation Design: Top-level structures Centralisation/decentralisation
• Programme and Project Management
• Process re-engineering: Benchmarking

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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

• Enhance the understanding of the contracting process for internal and external consultants;
• Deeper understanding of analytical frameworks to evaluate organisations;
• Familiarity with approaches to diagnosis, including action research and appreciative inquiry;
• Enhanced skills at designing data collection approaches including interviewing, survey research and observation;
• Enhanced insight into feedback of data as an intervention in organisations.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

16
Specified Learning Activities

40
Autonomous Student Learning

60
Total

116
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
The module has a detailed study guide. Students are required to complete the module pre-reading or pre-work prior to attending the seminar sessions. The sessions themselves will be a combination of lectures, group discussion, in-class presentations, case study discussions and classroom exercises. A heavy emphasis in the seminars is on teasing out the implications of theory for practical application in a workplace context.

 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Assignment: Post module written assignment Unspecified n/a Graded No

75
Attendance: class participation Unspecified n/a Graded No

25

Carry forward of passed components
Yes
 
Remediation Type Remediation Timing
In-Module Resit Prior to relevant Programme Exam Board
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Written feedback to be provided within 20 days of assignment deadline.

Timetabling information is displayed only for guidance purposes, relates to the current Academic Year only and is subject to change.
 

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