Leadership and Change Management

Organizations across all sectors are frequently required to undertake significant organizational changes that may involve structure, strategy, technology, and employee roles and attitudes. Such changes are necessary to stay competitive amid global shifts, deregulation, and technological advances. Consequently, managers must have the skills to effectively lead and manage these changes for organizational renewal and innovation and sustainable performance.

This course offers students with an in-depth understanding of change management, exploring key models, processes, and tools. By integrating tool-based, process, and critical perspectives on organizational change, it guides participants to form a holistic view of change dynamics across diverse organizational contexts. Through case studies and current research, the course will develop students’ ability to design effective change strategies and lead change initiatives in more sustainable ways.

Topics:

Why organizational change?

Tool-based, process-based and critical perspectives on organizational change

Planned change and organizational development

Integrated organizational models

Understanding and interpretations in change processes

Power and political dynamics in organizational change

The complexity of resistance

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

1. Understand and evaluate key change management themes and theories.
2. Be able to use change management perspectives to assess organizational change dynamics, and design strategies for effective implementation.
3. Understand organizational renewal and innovation needs, and communicate different approaches to change for diverse organizational contexts.
4. Collaborate effectively in teams to address real-world change management challenges.
5. Develop an ethical and sustainable approach in relation to change management practices.

Lectures, guest lectures, case studies, role plays, group presentations, class discussions and quizzes.