Organization and Change Perspectives

• Credit value: 15 credits at Level 7
• Convenor and tutor: Mark Stringer
• Assessment: a 3000-word essay (100%)

The module provides multiple perspectives for thinking critically about organizations and organizational change.

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

• critically compare and contrast the usefulness of different perspectives and theories of organizational change
• appreciate the strengths and limitations of rational, planned and strategic perspectives on change
• explore concepts of power, resistance and the politics of change
• identify and evaluate the importance of ‘practice’ in understanding how change is managed
• understand the roles of ‘agency’, and especially change leaders and change agents, in processes of organizational change
• use academic research effectively in evaluating different perspectives on organizational change.