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Managing Innovation and Organisational Change - MGMT2001
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Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Undergraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
 
 
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Enrolment Requirements:
 
 
Prerequisite: MGMT1001, MGMT1002
 
 
CSS Contribution Charge:Band 3 (more info)
 
   
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
  

Description

This course examines the role of innovation in the management of organisations. It explores, in more detail, the role of creativity and the nature and processes of organisational change. It focuses on technological, administrative and process innovation as well as on contemporary techniques and procedures used to understand, initiate, plan and implement change.

The course is shaped by 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 areas as they contribute to the theory and practice of innovation and change. Topics 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
• Organisational development
• Techniques for process change
• The role of entrepreneurship, creativity, leadership and managerialism
• Change agency

Case studies and exercises are used to explore central issues.
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.

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