Managing Change
Analyse the skills and knowledge used in organisations to manage change effectively.
Duration
2 weeksWeekly study
10 hours
Managing Change
Explore innovation and change alongside techniques to reduce resistance.
This course begins by classifying the reasons for change - both internal and external - and explores the concepts of innovation and creativity. The four Ps of innovation will be studied and open and closed innovation models will be described.
Resistance to change is explained which covers both individuals’ and organisational resistance to change and successful change leaders’ knowledge and actions are described.
The relationship between the levels of organisational culture and change are also explored, including approaches which can make it easier to adapt and manage resistance to changes.
What topics will you cover?
The process of change
- Causes of change
- Definitions of change
- Types of change
- Process of change: Hayes article
- Implementing change
- Discuss the lifecycle, emergent, participative and political models of change
Change models
- Models for implementing change
- Lewin’s model
- Kotter’s model
Change management and innovation
- Understand the concepts of innovation and creativity
- State the resources that enable an individual to be creative
- Explain the four Ps of innovation
- Propose a number of drivers of innovation
- List the four organisational support factors for innovation
- Market pull and external pressures
- Open and closed innovation models
Resistance to change
- Why resist change?
- Other sources of resistance to change
- Explain why individuals resist change
- Explain how organisational resistance to change can arise
- Degrees of change
- Understanding the change cycle
- Minimising the problems of change
- How to address resistance to change
- Planning for change
Organisational culture and change
- Role of leadership in change management
- The relationship between the levels of organisational culture and change
- The elements that consist the cultural web of an organisation
- Cultural analysis to understand change
Strategies for success change implementation
- List what successful change leaders know and do
- Socialisation programmes at work that help us to easier adapt to organisational culture and manage resistance to change
- How to increase the chance of success
- Probability of success
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- The process of change
- Change models
- Describe change management and innovation
- Explain resistance to change
- Explore organisational culture and change
- Strategies for success change implementation
Who is the course for?
This course is designed for junior and middle managers, either with a degree in a non-business-related discipline or without a degree, entrepreneurs who want to be equipped with a range of skills to run their business, and learners who want to progress either within their existing workplace or pursue opportunities outside of their employer.
What software or tools do you need?
No specific software required.
Who will you learn with?
Clare Garrick BA,(Hons), MA, FHEA, CMgr MCMI – business course leader. Coventry University Scarborough
Who developed the course?
Coventry University
Coventry secured 5 QS Stars for Teaching and Online Learning in the QS World University Ranking 2020 and has received No. 1 in the world for Massive Open Online Courses in MoocLab’s World University Ranking 2021.
Established
1992Location
Coventry
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