Course Duration:
6 Weeks on a part-time (online) basis
Overview:
In order to survive and stay competitive organisations need to identify the internal and external forces that create the need for organisational change. They need to adapt effectively and efficiently to the continuous and complex demands of the situation.
The purpose of this short course is to guide managers how transformation and change, and improved performance can be achieved through a clear understanding of behavioural, structural, and operations strategies, and leading a successful change programme.
Learning outcomes:
After completing this short course you will be able to:
- Identify and critically discuss the barriers to strategy implementation and learning.
- Discuss the transformational leadership processes of strategy focus and people focus, and the elements of organisational change.
- Understand the basis of organisational performance and improvement as being structural, behavioural, and operational.
- Define elements of a successful change management programme.
- Distinguish between change management which deals with mobilising resources for transformation, and organisational climate which represents the atmosphere of the organisation.
- Explain that a coordinated strategic change programme should be managed outside the constraining norms of an existing organisational culture.
- Distinguish between external and internal forces that create the need for organisational transformation and change.
- Understand the important link between organisational development and improvement.
- Identify the early warning signs of organisational decline.
- Demonstrate that organisational transformation and change, as well as improved performance are achieved through behavioural, structural, and operations strategies.
- Demonstrate how to lead change and manage resistance to change.
- Understand the characteristics of the three organisational improvement types: adaptive, innovative and radical.
- Describe Lewin’s change model and the systems model for change.
- Explain and apply Kotter’s eight steps for leading organisational change.
- Understand and explain the reasons why employees resist change.
- Identify alternative strategies for overcoming resistance to change.
- Describe how to measure strategic benefits of change.
- Demonstrate how to transform from a bureaucratic organisation to a knowledge-based learning organisation.
