Aims & Learning Objectives:
To provide students with a critical appreciation of the ideas of management gurus and how these set and guide the practice of change. This popular view is contrasted with more academic approaches and developed through a consideration of the (re)design of organisational forms suitable for an age that increasingly requires organizations to be global and innovative.
Content:
Topics will be drawn from the following:
Fashions and fads - the history of ideas in change management; The role of business gurus in defining the practice of change; Orders and types of change - 1st, 2nd and reframing; The politics of organizational change; Organizational design and contingency theory; Organizational forms for the future - innovative and global.
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