Teaching Responsibility
LJMU Schools involved in Delivery:
LJMU Partner Taught
Learning Methods
Workshop
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.