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LJMU Partner Taught

Learning Methods

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Module Offerings

7110ECBM-JAN-PAR

7110ECBM-SEP-PAR

Aims

To provide the student with the critical understanding and skills to support active engagement in the process of strategic change management. To provide a critical understanding of the importance of effective quality and systems management in order to achieve organisational objectives. To provide the student with the skills to implement a strategic quality change in an organisation.

Learning Outcomes

1.
critically evaluate and analyse the background to organisational strategic change and issues relating to strategic change in an organisation
2.
critically analyse how to lead stakeholders in developing a strategy for change
3.
strategically plan to implement models for ensuring on-going change
4.
critically evaluate the role of operations management

Module Content

Outline Syllabus:Strategic change concepts and models The role of leaders and managers Types and styles of organisational change Factors driving change Internal and external environment Change contexts Involving stakeholders in change management strategy Organisational culture perspective on change Resistance to change and strategies to combat resistance Change transition Power and politics perspective on change Organisational learning and change Developing appropriate models for ensuring on-going change Implementation and enabling of strategic change Justification and evaluation of strategic change
Additional Information:The module incorporates the study of change from the perspectives of the organisation and focuses on operations management and strategic quality change. It is a module that requires students to understand overall concepts of organisational change, the theories and implications, via case study work and assessment. It also drills down on the specific issue of operations management and quality- how can quality management be improved and the strategic quality systems of an organisation be improved through change processes.

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