Please describe the refined course objectives. This should be in line with module descriptions in the course syllabus.
The first module aims to provide the
students with the basic and most common grounds to understand managing change
at different levels. In essence, in this session, students will acknowledge the
need and nature of change at individual, group and organisational level.
Furthermore, the analysis involves the interaction and the synergies that exist
among changes at each level. The session ends with the description of the range
of changes that organisations currently face.
The second module will provide the
theoretical foundations and origins of organisational change. Organisations and
organisational change do not happen in a vacuum. Instead they form social
institutions and compromises that are affected by other social, economic and
political developments. From the other side organisations are composed by
different people and distinct personalities. Psychological, sociological and
management theories perceive change from a different angle. However a synthesis
of the elements of each theoretical contribution helps in the understanding of
the importance of change for organisational life and sustainability.
The
third module deals with contemporary perspectives in organisational theory that
have influence the conceptualisation of change in the modern business world. In
essence these perspectives are related to the General Systems Theory, the Enactment
Theory and the relativistic postmodernist version that tends to view questions
of right and wrong, good or bad as a matter for personal reflection and
practice. At the next section of the unit we describe certain paradigms to
organisational theory including the Japanese approach, the organisational
learning thesis and the Culture-Excellence school.
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