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BMGT43580

Academic Year 2024/2025

Managing Organisational Change (BMGT43580)

Subject:
Business Management
College:
Business
School:
Business
Level:
4 (Masters)
Credits:
10
Module Coordinator:
Ms Ashley Hughes
Trimester:
Summer
Mode of Delivery:
On Campus
Internship Module:
No
How will I be graded?
Letter grades

Curricular information is subject to change.

This module introduces participants to the range of factors to consider when planning and implementing major change programmes in contemporary organisational settings. A model called the Change Kaleidscope (Balogun,Hope Hailey & Gustafsson) is explored to analyse the change path, implementation choices, change context and implementation planning. The module also looks at themes around employee engagement, trust, resistance and organisational culture. An applied practical approach is adopted and students are encouraged to be active learners and pay attention to events reported in business media

About this Module

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this module you should be able to:-
1. Understand the diverse ways in which organisational change may be conceptualised and managed.
2. Have a working knowledge of the Change Kaleidoscope and be able to apply it to change contexts.
3. Assess and reflect on your preferred change intervention style and on your level of competencies as an effective change agent.
4. Have developed and practiced skills of diagnosis, intervention selection, implementation, evaluation and institutionalisation.
5. Appreciate the role of culture, power, politics and conflict within change interventions and be able to identify appropriate frameworks for overcoming resistance to change.
6. Demonstrate an awareness of what is happening in real world organisations, identifying new trends etc.


Student Effort Hours:
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

36
Specified Learning Activities

84
Autonomous Student Learning

130
Total

250

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Lecture inputs
Self-assessment inventories
Discussion groups
In-class exercises
Ted Talks - You Tube
Journal articles
Simulation

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
Group Work Assignment: Analyse a prescribed case study and presented your analysis in a pre-recorded video. Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
20
 No
Individual Project: Change Management Simulation Result Week 1 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
5
 No
Individual Project: Simulation reflections - what did you learn from your engagement with the simulation - one page Week 2 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
15
 No
Group Work Assignment: Apply the Change Kaleidoscope Model to a real world organisation Week 4 Standard conversion grade scale 40% No
60
 No

Carry forward of passed components
No
 

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

• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Individual Assignment - Collective feedback to class on strengths/weaknesses Final Applied Project - students may request feedback on their submission after final grades are released by the College

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