Change Management MGT5420

  • Academic Session: 2023-24
  • School: Adam Smith Business School
  • Credits: 10
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Repeated in Semesters 1 and 2
  • Available to Visiting Students: No
  • Taught Wholly by Distance Learning: Yes

Short Description

Managing change has never been more topical; disruptive technologies and events are impacting organisations globally. This course will provide students with skills and conceptual frameworks which will enable them to manage change situations in a more thoughtful and pragmatic way; applying specific tools and ideas that are academically grounded and empirically tested.

Timetable

This course is made up of 10 weeks of online lectures. It is anticipated that the student would engage in approximately 100 notional learning hours. Each session consists of a combination of recorded lectures or interviews, online activities, as well as case study and recommended reading discussions.

Requirements of Entry

Please refer to the current postgraduate prospectus at: http://www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

The summative assessment is a critical reflective essay of 2,500 words in report form. The assessment is based on a case study where the student is required to analyse the change management implemented and reflect on the value assumptions and orientation, critically analyse the situation, and recommend the most appropriate change implementation strategy.

Course Aims

The overarching aim is to provide participants with knowledge and understanding of change management philosophies and methodologies. The knowledge will enable students to analyse, synthesise, evaluate and make sense of dynamic change situations within and outwith their organisations, and recommend a course of action that is consistent with the organisation's strategic direction.

Intended Learning Outcomes of Course

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

1. Analyse the diversity of change management perspectives and discuss the value assumptions and orientations which lie behind them.

2. Synthesise and contextualise internal processes and relationships, and external environmental conditions that influence an organisation to change.

3. Evaluate changes in the external and internal environments of an organisation and recommend the most appropriate change management implementation strategy.

Minimum Requirement for Award of Credits

Students must pass the written assignment. Please note some students will not want to pass the assignment and a certificate of participation may be awarded.