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Organisational Change
Module 1
Organisations and their changing environments
- Objectives
- A view of organisations
- The historical context for change
- An uncertain future
- Organisations today – environmental triggers of change
- Organisational responses to change
Module 2
The nature of organisational change
- Objectives
- The changing faces of change
- Varieties of change
- Predictable change
- Diagnosing change situations
Module 3
Organisational structure and change
- Objectives
- The meaning of organisation structure
- The dimensions of structure
- Models of structure
- Influences on structure
- Organisational structure and change
Module 4
Cultures for change
- Objectives
- The informal organisation
- The meaning of culture
- Describing organisational culture
- Dimensions of organisational culture
- The sources of organisational culture
- Organisational culture and change
- Changing organisational culture to bring about organisational change
Module 5
The politics of change
- Objectives
- Organisational politics
- Power in organisations
- The politics of powerlessness
- The link between politics, power and conflict
- Conflict in organisations
- Power and conflict in times of change
Module 6
The leadership of change
- Objectives
- Management and leadership
- Approaches to leadership
- Leadership in times of change
Module 7
Hard systems models of change
- Objectives
- Situations of change
- Systematic approaches to change
- The hard systems model of change
- Using the hard systems model of change
- Issues in using the hard systems model of change
Module 8
Soft systems models for Change
- Objectives
- Managing change in situations of soft complexity
- Organisational development - philosophy and underlying assumptions
- The OD process
- OD: an action-research-based model of change
- An assessment of the OD model for change
Module 9
A changing future
- Introduction
- Some general trends
- Demographic changes
- Changing lifestyles
- Occupational changes
- Changing employment policies and practices
- Operating virtually
- The multiple paths to change