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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