Course Catalogue

Change Management (Continuous Professional Development) MGT5427

  • Academic Session: 2026-27
  • School: Adam Smith Business School
  • Credits: 0
  • Level: Level 5 (SCQF level 11)
  • Typically Offered: Semester 1
  • Available to Visiting Students: No
  • Taught Wholly by Distance Learning: Yes
  • Collaborative Online International Learning: No
  • Curriculum For Life: No

Short Description

This course will give you a practical perspective on how to manage change.

Timetable

This is a 6-week intensive course.

Requirements of Entry

A minimum of an undergraduate degree and IELTS 5.0.

Excluded Courses

None

Co-requisites

None

Assessment

None. There is no summative assessment.

Course Aims

To provide participants with the ability to assess, analyse and implement change within organisations in particular to:

■ Explore the nature and context of change.

■ Examine alternative change management approaches and philosophies.

■ Determine optimal change management strategies given particular change contexts.

■ Examine how best to implement predetermined change strategies.

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

No exceptions