Organizational Change

Code:

2EAE09

Acronym:

MO

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Management Studies

Instance: 2013/2014 - 2S (of 10-02-2014 to 06-06-2014)

Active?	Yes
Web Page:	https://sigarra.up.pt/fep/pt/ucurr_geral.ficha_uc_view?pv_ocorrencia_id=218958
Responsible unit:	Management
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Economics and Business Administration

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EAE	65	Bologna Syllabus since 2012	1	-	3,5	27	94,5

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

- to think critically organization and change;

- to analyse the contexts of organizational change, how it emerges and the different approaches to its implementation;

- to explore the limitations of managerialist approaches towards change and the need to consider a process view;

- to analyse the role of the manager as a leader of change processes.

Learning outcomes and competences

Students are expected to develop a conceptual and methodological framework to analyse organizational change processes, and to be able to propose intervention policies and practices.

Working method

Presencial

Program

1. Modes of thinking.

2. Organization and change.

3. Change as planned transition between states.

4. Change at individual level. 

5. Change as an emergent and local process.

6. Change of organizational culture.

7. Leading change.

8. Change and power relations.

 

Mandatory literature

Esther Cameron & Mike Green; Making Sense of Change Management (3ed), Kogan Page, 2012
Bernard Burnes; Managing Change (5ed), Prentice Hall, 2009
John Hayes ; The Theory and Practice of Change Management (3ed), Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Mats Alvesson & Stefan Sveningsson ; Changing Organizational Culture, Routledge, 2007

Complementary Bibliography

John Kotter; Leading Change, Harvard Business Review Press, 2012
William Bridges; Managing Transitions (3ed), Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2009

Comments from the literature

For each lecture, a set of specific articles will provided.

Teaching methods and learning activities

- lectures

- case studies

- debates

keywords

Social sciences

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	80,00
Teste	20,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	14,00
Frequência das aulas	21,00
Total:	35,00

Calculation formula of final grade

Test 1 (20%) + Exam (80%)

(alternatively, through final exam = 100%)

Classification improvement

The final mark can be improved through final exam only, in the second round of examinations (counting for 100%).