1. To enable students to gain a deeper understanding of organisational reality through the different levels and perspectives of change inside and outside the organisation. 2. To develop a deep appreciation of the inter-relationship between routines and change in terms of structure, culture management intervention and modes of reinforcement. 3. To actively engage students to develop skills in proven approaches to managing change and crises in both for-profit and not-for-profit organisations. 4. To enable students to gain a deeper understanding of the challenges and complexity of international change management. 5. To give students a deep appreciation of the organisational and environmental roadmap of change.

Nature of organisational change, resistance to change, understanding attitudes and behaviours towards change, managerial skills of change agents, problems facing change agents, levels of organisational change, formation of implementation paths, mobilising for change, change levers and interventions, strategic change frameworks, monitoring, control and resourcing change, evaluating change, crisis management, management of stakeholders in change and crisis management.

1) Identify and explain how internal and external environmental factors drive organisational change. 2) Show strong evidence of being able to explain but more critically evaluate theories and frameworks within the domain of change management to gauge their effectiveness for real-life application. 3) Develop an ability to conceptualise and explain how organisational metaphors can be used to discuss and explore the process of organisational change. 4) Show strong evidence of being able to explain the concepts of change context, levers and styles and apply this understanding to deconstruct, explain and critique a change process in organisations with different business models and operational environments in order to enhance organisational understanding and managerial skills. 5) Show strong evidence of being able to explain and critically analyse how change agents envisage and approach the change process, and how this affects how the change process is managed in organisations with different business models and operational environments and ethical concerns. 6) Show strong evidence of understanding stakeholder ethics and theory through application by a) being able to identify and categorise change stakeholders within the wider environmental context and b) show how stakeholders are managed through the change process to achieve varying operational goals. 7) Demonstrate the ability to conceptualise, analyse and explain the profound interdependent relationship between organisational culture and change. 8) Demonstrate a strong ability in using appropriate theories and frameworks to analyse and explain in depth why organisations face organisational crises and how they can change to emerge from such crises.

1) Interpret organisational attitudes and behaviours towards organisational change. 2) Understand the role of stakeholders and stakeholder ethics in change management. 3) Cognisance of the role of the environment in driving and being driven by organisational change.

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Interactive Lecture and tutorial sessions creating proactive student behaviour. Practical organisation-based awareness. Independent reading and learning for enhanced knowledgeability. In-depth consideration of stakeholder and ethical issues to enhance responsibility and ethical awareness. Ongoing research into the process of strategic change to enhance topicality, practical value and relevance of the pedagogical experience.