TERM: | 2020-21 Winter |
COURSE NUMBER: |
BUSI 389 |
COURSE TITLE: |
Organizational Design and Change |
NAME OF
INSTRUCTOR: |
Dr Elden Wiebe
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CREDIT WEIGHT
AND WEEKLY TIME DISTRIBUTION: |
credits 3 (hrs lect 3 - hrs sem 0 - hrs lab 0) |
CALENDAR
DESCRIPTION: |
We inevitably encounter organizations, both in work and
leisure, everyday of our lives. This course examines how organizations
are structured and how they change. Students will be introduced to the
theories of why organizations look the way they do, to the principles
of organizational design, to the theories of how organizations change,
and to practical steps in initiating and accomplishing organizational
change. Through these theories and tools, students will develop an
appreciation for how organizations affect us, as well as skills in
analyzing organizations and reshaping them in order for them to be more
effective.
Prerequisites: BUSI 339 |
REQUIRED TEXTS: |
- Julia Balogun; Veronica Hope Hailey; Stafanie Gustafsson,
Exploring Strategic Change . 4th Edn ISBN: 9780273778912, Mandatory,
Essential to Pass the Course
- Chip Heath and Dan Heath, Switch:
How To Change Things When Change Is Hard. ISBN: 9780307357274,
Mandatory, Essential to Pass the Course
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MARK
DISTRIBUTION IN PERCENT: |
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Research paper |
30% |
Individual Change Project | 30% |
Final Exam | 25% |
Participation | 15% |
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100% |
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COURSE
OBJECTIVES: |
Through this course, students will:
- Be able to describe key theories of organizational change
- Become aware of the various elements impeding and enabling organizational change
- Develop skills in initiating and accomplishing change in organizations by applying knowledge to a change project
- Gain understanding of themselves and their personal impact on the leading and implementation of change
- Implement a personal change
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COURSE TOPICS: |
- Syllabus and Orientation
- Begin thinking about the following question: “What is the foundation of
- our existence—stability or change?”
- Characteristics of Organizations
- Types of Change
- Van de Ven and Poole 2005: Life-cycle, Evolution, Dialectic, Teleology
- Weick and Quinn 1999; Episodic and Continuous
- Stability-based change
- Becoming-based change
- Ch 1 Balogun: Introduction
- Ch 2 Balogun: Understanding mplementation Choices: The Change Path
- Ch 3 Balogun: Understanding Implementation Choices: Additional Options to Consider
- Ch 4 Balogun: Analyzing the Change Context: How Context Affects Choice
- Case Analysis: Case 1 Merging to Achieve Change (pp127-136)
- Ch 5 Balogun: Designing the Transition: The Implementation Path
- Ch 6 Balogun: Transition Management: Building Enabling Conditions
- Ch 7 Balogun: Transition Management: Employee Engagement, Trust, Justice, Voice
- Ch 8 Balogun: Concluding Comments
- Case Analysis: Case 2 GlaxoSmithKline Pharma Greece (pp234-246)
- Dialogic Organizational Development: Co-constructing the diagnosis and solution
- Narrative and Change: Our stories are our lives
- Analogy and Metaphor: Helping people make sense of, and accept, change
- Analogy and Metaphor: Shifting the behavior of a society
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