Course content

The course provides an in-depth exploration of organizational change in a Norwegian context, where principles such as participation and co-determination are central elements for fostering good change processes. It covers readiness for change, resistance to change, and theoretical frameworks for implementation in complex organizations. The course combines practical and theoretical approaches to implementation with a key focus on how an understanding of organization, employees, management, and context, including digital security, influences change and innovation processes.

Learning outcome

Knowledge:

1. The candidate has in-depth knowledge of management and organizational change in a Norwegian context, where principles such as employee participation and co-determination are central components.
2. The candidate has advanced knowledge of resistance of and readiness for change, implementation theoretical perspectives, and their implications for managing innovation and change processes in complex organizations.
3. The candidate can analyse and apply knowledge about innovation and change processes, including how contextual factors, such as requirements for digital security, may influence these processes.

Skills:

1. The candidate can analyze and apply theory to understand and support implementation processes in complex organizations, including how principles such as participation and co-determination can support the organization's goals and innovation processes.
2. The candidate can reflect on how contextual conditions, including digital security, influence innovation and implementation processes.
3. The candidate can work independently with practical and theoretical issues related to organizational change and consequences of a lack of understanding of context, organization, and employees during the planning and implementation of change processes.

General Competence:

1. The candidate can apply knowledge and skills developed from the course to support implementation and innovation processes in complex organizations.
2. The candidate understands the importance of contextual awareness in innovation and change processes, and how framework conditions, including requirements related to digital security, may influence such work.
3. The candidate can adapt international theoretical trends to Norwegian conditions and contribute to innovation and new thinking in innovation and change processes.

Learning methods and activities

Learning methods and activities

The course uses a student-centered learning approach based on a flipped classroom model and modular seminars. This setup allows students to deepen their understanding of the subject at their own pace, in collaboration with fellow students if desired, before the seminars. During the seminars, the course material is further explored collaboratively, both in groups and in plenary sessions together with the instructor, working with a real-life casestudy.

Students are expected to read and work on selected parts of the syllabus and learning resources on Canvas and to prepare, as specified in Canvas, before the seminars and actively participate in the seminars. Together with attendance, this is the work requirement of the course and is very important to achieve good work sessions at the seminars.

In addition to the syllabus, the learning resources on Canvas are an important part of the course, providing students with support to explore the material in depth outside of the seminars.

Language of instruction: Norwegian, but much of the syllabus and learning materials are in English.

Obligatory activities

Preparation (as specified in Canvas) before seminars, and attendance in seminars with active participation are mandatory.

Any absence from seminars must be approved by the course coordinator.

Compulsory assignments

• Preparation (specified in Canvas) and participation in specified seminars. Absence must be approvd by the teacher.

Specific conditions

Required previous knowledge

Course: IDS4002 Sustainable organising and management of innovation

Admission to a master programme on campus Gjøvik.

Those in other master’s programs on campus Gjøvik can sign up for the course, but must confirm with their department whether it counts toward their degree.

Course materials

To be announced at the start of the semester