Course

Managing Innovation and Organisational Change - MGMT2001

Faculty: Australian School of Business

School: School of Management

Course Outline: MGMT2001 Course outline

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: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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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.
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