This course develops strong leadership skills for change management, implementation and sustainability without damaging the organization’s equilibrium.
In today’s world with the quickly changing work dynamics it is critical for every individual to become more adaptable to change. Change enables individuals to come out of their status quo and challenge themselves to explore new avenues. If not actively engaging in evolving yourself life becomes stagnant and it caps the potential of growth. Understanding change and why it is important in organizations makes it easier for professionals to manage change. This module gives the learners the basic concept of change and makes them familiar with the terminologies and concepts which would help in the upcoming modules.
Objectives
At the end of the Unit, the learners will be able to:
Understand change and the process of change management.
Understand some important basic concepts of change management.
As we established in the previous session that change is good for growth of both individuals and entities. But Change can only be good if it is holistically embraced. When change is implemented it not just affects individuals but also involves changing the norms, values and beliefs of groups which makes it rather challenging for the management to deal with change. The module discusses how understanding the culture and taking the whole organization equally is critical for change implementation and sustainability without damaging the organization’s equilibrium.
Objectives
At the end of the Unit, the learners will be able to:
Understand the concept of organization culture
What are the sources of organizational culture and forces that affect it?
Resistance to change and how to deal with it.
Learners’ Self Reflection
Learners will critically reflect on their assigned tasks and give their reflection on it.
Change agent is an individual typically from inside and some side some external party to the organization who helps the organization through transitioning process, through transformation with focus on organizational effectiveness, development and improvement. Their main focus is on people and their interactions. The current module focuses on the leaders role as change agent and how culture of the organization play a vital role in this domain.
Objectives
At the end of the Unit, the learners will be able to:
Understand how culture plays an important role in change management process
Role of leaders as change agents against the resistance faced to change.
Learners’ Self Reflection
Learners will critically reflect on their assigned tasks and give their reflection on it.
Strategic change management is the process of managing change in a structured, thoughtful way in order to meet organizational goals, objectives, and missions. In addition, strategic change managers use models to help move through the change process with purpose rather than haphazardly attempting to change the company.
Objectives
At the end of the Unit, the learners will be able to:
The concept of strategic management
The process of strategic management and its role in implementation of change
Learners’ Self Reflection
Learners will critically reflect on their assigned tasks and give their reflection on it.
Organizational Diagnosis is an effective ways of looking at an organization to determine gaps between current and desired performance and how it can achieve its goals. Developing an organization is no different. With each iteration of a diagnostic process so new changes are identified and prioritized.
Objectives
At the end of the Unit, the learners will be able to:
The concept of Organizational diagnosis
What is the role of Change agents?
Why do we need to perform diagnosis?
What the models of diagnosis and philosophy behind them
This module is designed to introduce the learners to the difference between change management and change leadership. Change management, refers to the basic needs tools as well as structures which are required to apply and control change while leadership on change is about making the change process faster and smarter.
Objectives
At the end of the Unit, the learners will be able to:
Understand how to manage change and its consequences.
What are the common reactions to change and how to manage and understand them?
Major steps of the process of change and frequent errors in change management process.
Understanding the different types of approaches for implementation of change refers to change management models. This module and the next module will help the learners understand the basic models of change management their differences, their advantages and disadvantages respectively.
Objectives
At the end of the Unit, the learners will be able to understand the following models of change:
Understanding the different types of approaches for implementation of change refers to change management models. This module and the next module will help the learners understand the basic models of change management their differences, their advantages and disadvantages respectively.
Objectives
At the end of the Unit, the learners will be able to understand the following:
People working in any organization can join. People wanting to develop ability to adapt to changing environment.
Description
Duration: 8 Weeks
Course Developer: Dr Zara Tahir
Course Content:
Number of Modules: 8
Description:
In today’s environment where there is a rapid increase in competition as well as the technologically advanced environments, business should be able to adapt to changes on an on-going basis. If they freeze in their current state and fail to advance, they face a high risk of jeopardizing their share of customers. Change management is a skill that plays a significant role in an organization's journey through change.
This course will help you understand what change is, what are the reasons to change and the resistance it faces through human response. You will also learn how to overcome that resistance.
Grading policy and assessment:
This course will comprise of activities and assignments evaluating Presentation, information retrieval, analytical and academic writing skills of the participants
Dr. Zara is a PhD in Management Sciences, currently serving in the department of IT and Project Management in Faculty of management sciences. She possess 12+ years of professional experience in working on projects and teaching.
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