Managing Changing Organisations (BS0048)

? Credit Points : 10 ? SCQF Level : 11 ? Acronym : MSE-P-BS0048

This is a topics course that focuses on issues related to the approaches and objectives associated with people-related aspects of organisational change programmes, but avoids prescriptive formulae that promise desired outcomes while failing to take account of the complexity of managerial existence in modern organisations. Instead we will provide a more analytical approach to some of the hard issues and problems confronting managers either anticipating, or currently experiencing, change management programmes.

The course builds on the core course in that many of the theories and skills already mastered can be transferred to this option. Nonetheless, and despite the title, this is not a course directly related to particular psychological theories concerning workplace behaviour. Instead the general aim of the course is to provide students with the conceptual tools necessary to evaluate more effectively contemporary strategies of people management through a critical understanding of the subjects indicated in the lecture list below.

Entry Requirements

? Pre-requisites : PGs Only

Subject Areas

Home subject area

Business Studies, (Management School and Economics, Schedule H)

Delivery Information

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : Semester 2 (Blocks 3-4)

? Contact Teaching Time : 2 hour(s) 30 minutes per week for 9 weeks

Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes

The planned learning experience provided by this course is organised around lectures that each deliver an identifiable topic. However, what links these topics is (i). that they relate to the fundamental tension within managerial theory and practice concerning approaches to managing human resources, and (ii) they each represent an area of current management interest and practice concerned with improving organisational effectiveness and overall performance and (iii) they relate to changing patterns of working practices and on-going changes in the 'employment relationship'. The initial lecture provides an overview of salient problematic issues associated with organisational change processes, and subsequent lectures focus on specific means and objectives of changes related to employment practices