GSB 734 Management of Change
Change presents us with an unending challenge. The proliferation of modern technology is reshaping organisational structures, and organisational cultures. Organisations—including private and public, profit and non-profit organisations, and national and multinational firms—are continually confronted with the need to change structures, strategies, cultures, human resources, products and services.
Management of Change is written for students interested in investigating the generic processes surrounding the management of change. We will be highlighting the importance of viewing change not as an event (that comes and goes) but as a way of organisational life—a condition that is sustained through involvement of organisation members.
The general aim of GSB 734 is to provide you with a conceptual and empirical understanding of the management of organisational change. Its aim is both to simplify and complicate your picture of change—to simplify by inter-relating diagnostic activities and intervention and to complicate by pointing out the factors influencing the implementation of the change effort.
The specific aims of GSB 734 are to enhance our understanding of the knowledge and skills needed for conducting organisational diagnosis, intervention, management of resistance, and the evaluation of the change effort.