2015/2016
KAN-CCDCO1001U Organisational Change
| English Title |
| Organisational
Change |
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| Language |
English |
| Course ECTS |
7.5 ECTS |
| Type |
Mandatory |
| Level |
Full Degree Master |
| Duration |
One Quarter |
| Start time of the course |
Second Quarter |
| Timetable |
Course schedule will be posted at
calendar.cbs.dk |
| Study board |
Study Board for BSc og MSc in Business, Language and Culture,
MSc
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| Course
coordinator |
- Dennis Schoeneborn - Department of Intercultural Communication
and Management (ICM)
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| Main academic
disciplines |
- Communication
- Organization
- Project and change management
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Last updated on
08-12-2015
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| Learning objectives |
To achieve the grade 12, students
should meet the following learning objectives with no or only minor
mistakes or errors: Upon completion of the course, students will be
able to
- Identify and describe an organisational change challenge
related to diversity issues
- Analyse the change challenge by drawing on the pertinent
academic literature and theoretical approaches to organisational
change (incl. research papers, reviews, and case studies)
- Argue for the choice of an empirical methodology to investigate
the organisational change challenge and explain the data collection
and data analysis procedures
- Design an intervention plan in relation to the organisational
change challenge. The plan should specify tasks relevant to
preparation, implementation, and communication
- Critically reflect and evaluate the strengths and limitations
of the chosen theoretical approach and intervention plan in
relation to the identified organisational change issue
- Demonstrate good academic writing skills (clear and accurate
writing style in English language, correct use of relevant
terminology, coherent structure of arguments, proper use of
references)
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| Course prerequisites |
| Bachelor degree |
| Prerequisites for registering for the
exam |
|
Number of mandatory
activities: 1
Requirements about active
class participation (assessed approved/not approved)
The students must present the findings of their project to the
case company at a mini-conference organised by the
course-coordinator.
Students who due to illness or other excused absence cannot
participate in the mini-conference shall instead individually hand
in a three pages executive summary of the project.
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| Examination |
|
Organisational
Change and Diversity Management:
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| Exam ECTS |
15 |
| Examination form |
Oral exam based on written product
In order to participate in the oral exam, the written product
must be handed in before the oral exam; by the set deadline. The
grade is based on an overall assessment of the written product and
the individual oral performance. |
| Individual or group exam |
Group exam, max. 5 students in the
group |
|
The grade is based on an overall assessment of
the written product and the individual oral performance. Further
instructions will be provided in class. The papers will be assessed
using the standard Danish grading scale. |
| Size of written product |
Max. 40 pages |
|
The length of the case report depends on the size
of the group. Students will work in groups of 3-5. Groups of 3 have
to deliver no more than 25 pages, groups of 4 no more than 30 pages
and a groups of 5 no more than 35 pages. One page is approximately
2,275 characters. |
| Assignment type |
Project |
| Duration |
Written product to be submitted on specified date and
time.
15 min. per student, including examiners' discussion of grade,
and informing plus explaining the grade |
| Grading scale |
7-step scale |
| Examiner(s) |
Internal examiner and second internal
examiner |
| Exam period |
Winter |
| Make-up exam/re-exam |
Another examination form
The re-exam/make-up exam shall be
based on the same report as the ordinary exam:
* if a student is absent from the oral exam due to documented
illness but has been part of handing in the report she/he does not
have to submitt a new project report for the make-up exam.
* if an individual student fails the oral exam she/he does not have
to submitt a new project report for the re-take exam.
* if a whole group fails they must hand in a revised report for the
re-take. The group will then get feedback on the report from the
examiner.
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Description of the exam
procedure
The course is a joint examination between the Diversity
Management and Organisational Change courses.
The exam is a group exam based on a group case analysis. The paper
shall combine the two courses of Diversity Management and
Organisational Change. The students will be presented with a
diversity or equality related problem from a company. Based on this
problem the students shall make an analysis with focus on the needs
for diversity management and diversity work in the organization or
on the existing diversity management and diversity work with the
use of theories from the course. To continue, based on the analysis
of the diversity related organizational change challenge the
students shall design an intervention plan to solve it the issues
based on the theories from the course. About half of the paper
should address the diversity management issues and about half
organisational change
issues.
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| Course content and
structure |
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This course is concerned with the challenges of initiating and
implementing change within and across organisations. The course
covers a wide range of topics such as change management
models, resistance to change, change communication and
interventions, etc. Furthermore, the course will look at how
organisations are affected by contemporary changes in broader
society (e.g., increased expectations regarding corporate
responsibility or workforce diversity). To investigate actual
change challenges in organisational practice, students will be
trained in a specific interviewing methodology (i.e. the repertory
grid technique). The course involves lectures, workshops, case
studies (incl. practitioners), and in-class
discussions.
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| Teaching methods |
| Lectures, case studies, and
(methodology) workshops |
| Expected literature |
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To be announced on CBS Learn
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Last updated on
08-12-2015
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