Leader: Dr Donna Buttigieg

Offered

Berwick First semester 2008 (Day)
Gippsland First semester 2008 (Day)
Gippsland First semester 2008 (Off-campus)
Sunway Second semester 2008 (Day)
Hong Kong First semester 2008 (Off-campus)
Singapore First semester 2008 (Off-campus)
Peninsula Second semester 2008 (Day)
South Africa First semester 2008 (Day)

Synopsis

Theory of organisation change and development, OD and metaphor, the client-consultant relationship, diagnosis, interventions, organizational learning, resistance to change, managing resistance to change, evaluation and institutionalization of change, transformation and cultural change, future directions, revision.

Objectives

The learning objectives of this unit are to:

• discuss some of the major conceptual models underlying the OD change process;
• analyse the roles of the OD practitioner and his/her relationship with the client;
• identify the differences between radical and incremental approaches to change;
• utilise and understand the importance of diagnostic techniques;
• identify intervention techniques relevant to specific organisational problems.

Assessment

On campus - Within semester assessment: 60%
Examination (2 hours): 40% Off campus - Within semester assessment: 60%
Examination (2 hours): 40%

Contact hours

3 hours class contact

Prerequisites

MGW1010

Prohibitions

MGC3130, MGF3621