This course examines the role of the innovation process in the management of organisations and change managing change. It explores the role of creativity in innovation and the nature and processes of organisational change. It focuses on technological, administrative and process innovation as well as contemporary techniques and procedures used to understand, initiate, plan and implement change. The course is shaped by contemporary concerns over the need to combine consistent structures for predictable and efficient operations and personnel employment. with flexibility and timely adaptability to respond to the environment. It adopts a critical perspective and uses a multi-disciplinary framework drawing on several disciplinary areas as they contribute to the theory and practice of innovation and change. Topics encompassed include: features of organisation design; types and phases of change; nonlinear dynamics; managerial and organisational cognition; interpretative systems and sense-making; culture and intervention for change; organisation development; techniques for process change, (eg. TQM, business processes); the role of enterpreneurship, creativity, leadership and managerialism; and change agency. Case studies and exercises are used to explore central issues.