| Unit name | Re-thinking Change, Systems and Organisation |
|---|---|
| Unit code | EFIMM0126 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | M/7 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
| Unit director | Professor. Will Harvey |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units) |
None |
| Units you may not take alongside this one |
n/a |
| School/department | School of Management - Business School |
| Faculty | Faculty of Social Sciences and Law |
This unit focuses on change, reputation and stakeholders. Key themes that the unit explores includes aligning purpose, values and behaviours, systems thinking and navigating competing stakeholder demands, responsible leadership as well as managing multiple and conflicting reputations. The unit analyses the challenges of reputation risks and threats, recovering from reputation loss, organisational development and the learning organisation. Finally, the unit explores social innovation, wicked problems, inequality and societal challenges, sensemaking and sensegiving. The unit starts by looking at challenges at the societal level, before exploring change at the organisational and individual levels. The mode of learning will include lectures, group work, individual discussions, teaching cases and talks from practitioners.
By the end of the course students will be able to:
1. Understand and critically engage with perspectives on change processes.
2. Identify how these perspectives can be applied to different forms of organisation and organisational challenges.
3. Apply insights from systems thinking, multi-level perspectives and social practice theories to develop strategic responses to complex problems.
Teaching will be delivered through a combination of synchronous and asynchronous sessions including lectures, seminars, drop-in sessions, discussion boards and other online learning opportunities
Summative assignment by individual essay of 3,000 words (100%)
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How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the Faculty workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. If you have self-certificated your absence from an
assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any extenuating circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.
