Organizational Change

Code:

2EAE09

Acronym:

MO

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Management Studies

Instance: 2021/2022 - 2S

Active?	Yes
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	8	Syllabus - 2015	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 as an emergent and local process.


5. Change of organizational culture.


6. The individual dimension of organizational change.


7. Leading change.


8. Change and power relations.

Mandatory literature

Jabri, Muayyad; Managing organizational change. ISBN: 978-0-230-24408-5

Teaching methods and learning activities

Presentation of theoretical elements and case studies.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	70,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	35,00
Frequência das aulas	27,00
Trabalho escrito	32,50
Total:	94,50

Eligibility for exams

As provided for in Article 10 (Regulamento Geral para Avaliação dos discentes de primeiros ciclos e de segundos ciclos da Faculdade de Economia da Universidade do Porto).

Calculation formula of final grade

IN DISTRIBUTED ASSESSMENT: Exam (70%) + Written assignment (30%)

(alternatively, by final exam = 100%)

Classification improvement

Distributed evaluation with final exam.