Introduction to Managing Change
- Module Title: Welcome to Leading and Implementing Change in the Workplace
Aim and Module Outcomes
- Module Aim: To develop a holistic understanding of the leadership and management of change.
- Module Learning Outcomes: Critically analyse the relationship between environmental change and organisational capability.
- Critically analyse the nature of change and evaluate complex concepts relating to leadership in relation to change management.
- Explore contemporary issues and their impact on business management.
- Analyse and evaluate the relationship between organisational culture and change.
- Indicative Content:
- Environmental change and organisational response.
- Nature of the change process
- Planned and unplanned change
- Politics of change and conflict resolution
- Organisational change and culture
- Organisational change and structure
- Role of managers as change agents
- Hard and soft models of change
- Evaluating change
Scheme of Work-Jan 2023
- Week 1- Week 3- HRD/Culture
- Intro. to module
- Aim/outcomes
Week 4-
- Professional Discussion
- Indicative content
- Assignment –Professional Discussion
- Week 2 Week 5
- Change and Decision Making
- Resistance to Change
- Week 2 Week 5
- Intro. to Managing Change
- Assignment
- Assignment Guidance
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SOW- Cont.
- Week 6-
- Leadership and Change Agents
- Implementing Change
- Week 7
- Reading Week Week 10
- Assignment Submission
- Week 8 /Week 9
- Assignment Tutorials
Managing Change- Cohort Jan 23 Assignment Submission Date- 24th March 2023
Word Count 3500 plus 15 Mins Professional Discussion-31/1/23
- -Evidence for Professional Discussion
- Choose an organisation that has undertaken a major change within the last two years. This organisation can be from the public, private or 3rd sector. Having chosen the organisation provide information on the following:
- A brief background to the organisation to demonstrate its development.
- An overview of the products/services it currently offers.
- The current market position i.e profit/loss, surplus/deficit, market share.
- A description of the change that was planned /implemented with emphasis on the micro and macro environmental influences on this change.
Tutorial Questions-20 Minutes
- 1:
- How do you feel about change- think about this either from a work change or personal change perspective.
- 2:
- Give an example of when change has worked well for you- Explain why.
- 3:
- Using your leadership assignment research give an example of a style or attribute your leader utilised in ‘change’ situations.
Remember this change has already taken place during the last 2 years. If it is a recent change you may have research constraints due to lack of feedback on the positive/ negative aspects of the success/failure of the change.
Discussion/Powerpoint Presentation
Provide background information on the organisation which should include:
Historical development- Use 5 key dates to build your organisation development profile.
Describe the sector it operates in – Private, Public or 3rd sector.
- Provide an overview of the products/services it supplies/delivers.
- A description of the Size of org.- i.e. Number of employees, number of Strategic Business Units it operates etc.
- Location- Head office or location of unit on which your change process is focussing on.
Cont: – Current Market Position
- i.e Profit/Loss, Surplus or Deficit
- Market Share/ Growth or Decline phase
- Public Sector- Who controls this organisation/unit- Central or Welsh Assembly government?
- Private/3rd Sector- Who are its major stakeholders?
- Briefly describe the ‘change’ your proposal has examined.
- Within the discussion you should identify what the nature of the change that took place was based on:
- Was it a structural change- Change of Leadership?
- Was it an operational change- Movement to AI focus ?
- Was it a location change- Cost saving measure?
- Was it as a result of the Org. growth or decline strategy- Impact of global marketplace or government cuts?
- What were the influences that caused this change to be required- Micro- Organisation issues (SWOT) or Macro- External issues (PESTLE) factors. You only need to discuss either the SWOT or PESTLE factors that had a direct influence on the requirement for the ‘change’ being investigated. You do need to include the SWOT and PESTLE in the assignment report.
- What was the impact of this change on the organisation- Physical, Financial, Human Resource, Operational capabilities (You only need to discuss one of these for the proposal)
Feasibility Discussion- Week 4 W/C 31/1/23
- The ‘feasibility’ discussion should be professionally prepared for and appropriate business language used within the discussion. The content should be of a professional standard with a logical flow to your discussion. The work needs to be supported with powerpoint slides and a reference list which provides evidence of the sources accessed to support the professional discussion.
- Please upload the powerpoint and reference list to Turnitin on Friday- 27/1/23 by 15.00 prior to your delivery of the professional discussion.
Next Week
- By week 2 – Please provide me with the name of the organisation and the change you intend to examine.
- By week 3 you need to have sent me your SWOT OR PESTLE TO review.
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