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School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Managing Change

  • Unit Code

    HRM6011

  • Year

    2021

  • Enrolment Period

    2

  • Version

    1

  • Credit Points

    20

  • Full Year Unit

     N

  • Mode of Delivery

    Online

  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Hossein ALI ABADI

Description

The capability to lead change is critical for Human Resource Management (HRM) professionals and managers at all levels as our organisations need to continually adapt to global competition and a fast changing environment. The unit aims to build knowledge of change practices, and the capability to determine appropriate leadership actions in diverse contexts. Participants will use the frameworks explored in class to investigate the leadership of a change within a workplace with which they are familiar, and critique that change process indicating how it could be improved. Participants will also make a personal self-assessment and development plan to build their change management capability.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

This unit will be offered in an accelerated mode over seven weeks.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must be enrolled in T39 and have completed a minimum of 160 credit points to enrol into this unit.

Equivalent Rule

Unit equivalent to MAN6720.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Justify a comprehensive, phased change strategy for an organisation to improve organisational performance that considers the ethical and social consequences on stakeholders.
  2. Assess the dimensions of a particular organisational change context and the functionality of a specific organisational structure.
  3. Critique leadership styles in relation to change implementation making links to personal capabilities and development needs within an organisational environment.
  4. Demonstrate written and oral communication when communicating change management knowledge with sensitivity and clarity to specialist and non-specialist organisational audiences.
  5. Reflect on individual contribution, group performance, and cultural relationships as a member of an effective team exploring managing change.

Unit Content

  1. Creating a vision.
  2. Changing environments.
  3. Scoping the impact of change.
  4. Designing a model for organisational change.
  5. Stakeholders, collaboration and changing culture.
  6. Managing resistance, cultures for change and the politics of change.
  7. The leadership of change.
  8. The process of organisational change.
  9. Communicating, operationalising and monitoring change management.
  10. Organisational development interventions (part 1): People and processes.
  11. Organisational development interventions (part 2): Strategy and structure.
  12. The future of change management.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationIndividual Change Management Presentation40%
ReportIndividual Change Management Report60%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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