2024/2025 KAN-CCDCO1001U Organisational Change
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Organisational Change |
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Language | English |
Course ECTS | 7.5 ECTS |
Type | Mandatory (also offered as elective) |
Level | Full Degree Master |
Duration | One Quarter |
Start time of the course | Second Quarter |
Timetable | Course schedule will be posted at calendar.cbs.dk |
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Study Board for BSc and MSc in Business, Language and Culture,
MSc
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Last updated on 24-06-2024 |
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Number of compulsory
activities which must be approved (see section 13 of the Programme
Regulations): 1
Compulsory home
assignments
Students must present the findings of their project to the case organisation at a mini-conference organised by the course-coordinator. This mini-conference usually takes place in calendar week 2 in January and participation by the students is compulsory. Students who due to illness or other excused absence cannot participate in the mini-conference shall send a doctor’s note or application for exemption to exemption.cbs.dk and exams@cbs.dk. If the absence is approved, students shall instead individually hand in a three pages executive summary of the project. |
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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 how to craft a research question and how to make methodological choices.
With this course, we contribute to three of CBS’s “Nordic Nine” educational goals in particular: First, with the course’s focus on applying methodological rigor in ambiguous practical contexts (e.g., change for diversity in organizational settings), we directly address NN2 “You are analytical with your data and curious about ambiguity”. Second, we sensitize students for ethical decision-making in organizations and provide them with dialogue-centered tools for driving organizational transformations; in this way, we directly address NN5 “You understand ethical dilemmas and have the leadership values to overcome them”. Third, the main assignment of this course is a live case study in collaboration with an organization from practice where students learn to find constructive solutions while preserving critical-analytical distance to the case at hand; in this way, we directly address NN6 “You are critical when thinking and constructive when collaborating”. |
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The course involves lectures, (methodology) workshops, case studies (incl. practitioners), and in-class discussions. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Students will receive continuous feedback from the lecturers throughout the course, e.g. interactive teaching formats, in-class case discussion, and in the dedicated group project supervision sessions. Furthermore, the representatives of the case organizations will provide students with feedback on whether their suggested solutions from the live case project are going into a fruitful direction. Lecturers will also strive for being readily available for individual or group-wise feedback in both lecture breaks and following each lecture session. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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To be announced on CBS Canvas |