School: Business and Law

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  • Unit Title

    Managing Change
  • Unit Code

    MAN6720
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    5
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Sten LANGMANN

Description

To survive in an increasingly competitive and dynamic environment, managers need to create innovative, change-ready organisations that can thrive and maximise their performance. This unit develops an understanding of individual, team and organisational level change that puts people at the heart of managing change in contemporary organisations. There is an emphasis on the emotional and behavioural dimensions of change, building self-awareness and valuing individual experience as you critically examine organisational change, its antecedents and its management and leadership before considering the future of change and human resource management in a world of virtual work. Theories and concepts of change management are reinforced through a focus on how they are applied in practice. The critical reflection method is extensively used in this unit to engage deeper reflection on assumptions, values and unquestioned norms held about organisational and personal practices. Through the process of critical reflection, you will come to interpret and create new knowledge and actions from your own experiences.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must have completed 100 credit points in their current course of study before attempting this unit.

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.

Unit Content

  1. Understanding change in context.
  2. Established theories and models of change.
  3. Personal theories and models of change.
  4. The human nature of change.
  5. Building readiness for change.
  6. Culture change.
  7. Making sense of change.
  8. Sensegiving and change implementation.
  9. Managing paradox during change.
  10. Behavioural insights.
  11. Leading behaviorally informed change.
  12. The future of change.

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 113 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 3 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences via ECU’s LMS 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 LMS. 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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportAnalysing the context of change20%
PresentationStorytelling for change30%
ProjectPlan for organisational change50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ReportAnalysing the context of change20%
PresentationStorytelling for change30%
ProjectPlan for organisational change50%

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.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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