Managing Innovation and Organisational Change - MGMT2001
Faculty: UNSW Business School
School: School of Management
Course Outline: MGMT2001 Course outline
Campus: Sydney
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: MGMT1001
CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
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.