Course - Leadership and Change Management - AL530120
Leadership and Change Management
About
About the course
Course content
Organizations across all sectors are frequently required to undertake significant organizational changes that may involve structure, strategy, technology, and employee roles and attitudes. Such changes are necessary to stay competitive amid global shifts, deregulation, and technological advances. Consequently, managers must have the skills to effectively lead and manage these changes for organizational renewal and innovation and sustainable performance.
This course offers students with an in-depth understanding of change management, exploring key models, processes, and tools. By integrating tool-based, process, and critical perspectives on organizational change, it guides participants to form a holistic view of change dynamics across diverse organizational contexts. Through case studies and current research, the course will develop students’ ability to design effective change strategies and lead change initiatives in more sustainable ways.
Topics:
Why organizational change?
Tool-based, process-based and critical perspectives on organizational change
Planned change and organizational development
Integrated organizational models
Understanding and interpretations in change processes
Power and political dynamics in organizational change
The complexity of resistance
Learning outcome
By the end of this course, students will be able to:
- Understand and evaluate key change management themes and theories.
- Be able to use change management perspectives to assess organizational change dynamics, and design strategies for effective implementation.
- Understand organizational renewal and innovation needs, and communicate different approaches to change for diverse organizational contexts.
- Collaborate effectively in teams to address real-world change management challenges.
- Develop an ethical and sustainable approach in relation to change management practices.
Learning methods and activities
Lectures, guest lectures, case studies, role plays, group presentations, class discussions and quizzes.
Compulsory assignments
- Oblig
Further on evaluation
Students will be assessed through a combination of individual and group assessments. Assessment will be based on the following components:
1. Group assignment (40%).
2. Individual school exam (60%).
The evaluation will be based on the group assignment that counts 40% of the total grade and the school exam that counts 60%. The assignment should be completed/solved in groups of 2-3 students. Both assignment and school exam must be passed in order to be given a grade. Students are entitled to re-sit only the part of the examination in which they have had legitimate reasons for an absence or have failed. A re-sit examination will take place only during the designated period for re-sit examinations. Later exams will require that both exam elements must be repeated.
The students must complete a mandatory assignment to participate in the exam. Previously approved mandatory assignments do not need to be handed in again for later exams.
Specific conditions
Admission to a programme of study is required:
Management of Innovation and Sustainable Business Development (MSMI)
Recommended previous knowledge
As for the study programme.
Course materials
Sörgärde, N. & Svenningson, S. (2023). Managing Change in Organizations: How, What and Why? SAGE.
Selected articles and cases
Subject areas
- Organization and Leadership