Weighting: 100 %
Type: Assignment (L. O. 1, 2, 3, 4)
Brief Description: Assess the need for a change in your business organization and draft implementation plan from a perspective of corporate and business strategy.
Length: max. 3000 words.

1. Traditional and modern models of change management;
2. Contemporary leadership issues and concepts;
3. Leadership styles and appropriateness of application;
4. Change in business organization with impact on business and corporate strategy;
5. Organisational change and development – reasons, types, goals, managing resistance against change.
6. Various concepts of change management
7. Change implementation step by step regarding strategy;
8. Personal aspects of manager in a process of a change.
9. Politics in a business organization
10. Organisational culture and its effect on change.

1. Demonstrate a systematic understanding of knowledge of various leadership concepts and models related to change management.
Knowledge and understanding

2. Critically assess the impact of change on organization and people, including risk evaluation. Analysis
Application
Problem Solving

3. Evaluate complex issues systematically in order to assure compliance of change in organization with its superior strategy.
Problem Solving

4. Lead informed discussions on practical and complex applicability, advantages, disadvantages and limitations of changes in various types of organizations.
Learning;
Communication

Students will engage in direct teaching sessions / lectures and following structured learning.

Following the lectures and prior to completing assessment students will engage with guided learning which will consolidate all new knowledge and understanding.

Independent learning strategies will include electronic consultations, electronic discussion groups and if asked for - personal consultations / advice with lecture team members.

• Access to online SU library, E-brary, Beck online
• Students have course handbook and learning package at their disposal

FOR INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIVE PARTNERS ONLY

• Stanford, Naomi. Guide to Organisation Design: Creating High-Performing and Adaptable Enterprises. London, GBR: Profile Books/The Economist, 2007. ProQuest ebrary; eISBN 9781847650320 OCLC NUMBER 290589084
• Kotter, J.P.: Leading Change. Harvard Business School Press, 2012, ISBN-10: 1422186431, ISBN-13: 978-1422186435
• Jeremy Tozer: Leading Through Leaders; Kogan Page Ltd 2012; ISBN: 9780749466206
• ANDERSON, D; ACKERMAN-ANDERSON, LS. Beyond Change Management : Advanced Strategies for Today's Transformational Leaders. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 2001. (The Practicing Organization Development Series). ISBN: 9780787956455; Available from: eBook Collection (EBSCOhost), Ipswich, MA
(or the most current versions of the texts)