School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Managing Change
  • Unit Code

    MAN6720
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    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.

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must have completed FBL5010 or be concurrently enrolled into FBL5010 in the same semester.

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, a business case for change, and align HR and organisational strategy.
  2. Scoping the impact of change and designing a contextually appropriate response that leverages change through HR practices.
  3. The skills and styles of leading change management, including a self-assessment.
  4. Adapting and mediating organisational structures and cultures for change.
  5. Engaging stakeholders for collaborative action to effect culture change.
  6. Designing a model for organisational change.
  7. Communicating, operationalising and monitoring change management.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-campus: The seminars include interactive lectures, class discussion, case study analysis and other types of learning activities. Students are expected to participate actively in all sessions and, where appropriate, relate theory and concepts to their work experiences. Off-campus students cover the same content as the on-campus unit. Off-campus students are expected to complete a range of learning activities, such as analyse case studies, relate theory and concepts to their work experiences, and participate in on-line discussions. Off-campus students access this unit via Blackboard. Regular on-line access is required.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationChange Management Presentation20%
ReportChange Management Report40%
JournalReflective Journal40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationChange Management Presentation20%
ReportChange Management Report40%
JournalReflective Journal40%

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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School: Business and Law

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

  • Unit Title

    Managing Change
  • Unit Code

    MAN6720
  • Year

    2019
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    3
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    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.

Co-Requisite Rule

Students must have completed FBL5010 or be concurrently enrolled into FBL5010 in the same semester.

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, a business case for change, and align HR and organisational strategy.
  2. Scoping the impact of change and designing a contextually appropriate response that leverages change through HR practices.
  3. The skills and styles of leading change management, including a self-assessment.
  4. Adapting and mediating organisational structures and cultures for change.
  5. Engaging stakeholders for collaborative action to effect culture change.
  6. Designing a model for organisational change.
  7. Communicating, operationalising and monitoring change management.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-campus: The seminars include interactive lectures, class discussion, case study analysis and other types of learning activities. Students are expected to participate actively in all sessions and, where appropriate, relate theory and concepts to their work experiences. Off-campus students cover the same content as the on-campus unit. Off-campus students are expected to complete a range of learning activities, such as analyse case studies, relate theory and concepts to their work experiences, and participate in on-line discussions. Off-campus students access this unit via Blackboard. Regular on-line access is required.

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 Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationChange Management Presentation20%
ReportChange Management Report40%
JournalReflective Journal40%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
PresentationChange Management Presentation20%
ReportChange Management Report40%
JournalReflective Journal40%

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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