OCD-P10

OCD-P10
PGDM 2010-12: Term-V

PGDM-II 2010-12: Term-V
Organisation Change and Development

Instructor: S. Peppin, PhD
E-mail: peppin@ximb.ac.in
Tel: 0674-3983719
Course Assistant: Mr. Digambar Rath
E-mail: digambar@ximb.ac.in Tel: 0674-3983842

1. Course Description and Scope: Organisation Change and Development (OC&D) is a planned process aimed at developing the organisations’ capacity to make and manage changes and meet the future challenges. The changes the OC&D process address are at the level of individual, groups and teams and organisations. The organisations which have been embracing changes are those which have strong leadership and a culture of learning and un-learning. This course is designed to provide you with the basic concepts and the competencies you will need in order to develop passion for change and act as a leader or agent of change in the organisation in which you work.

2. Course Objectives

: This course will enable the participants to:

acquire a demonstrable understanding of the concept, principles and practices of OC&D

scan and analyse the organizational environment

Prepare a profile of the change leader/agent

Identify and analyse factors enabling and resisting change

appreciate and apply some of the tools and methods for OC&D

Explain the role of different OD interventions in change process

be inspired by the life of leaders who have changed the world and organizations

3. Pedagogy

A combination of interactive lecture sessions, case analysis, simulation exercises, and structured learning exercises will be used.

Course Requirements

4.1

Individual Assignment

Profiling Change Leaders

: Each participant will be required to identify a Change Leader/Agent in any orgnaisation and prepare a profile of that person. The profile will include, what is the change s/he has introduced, and the

‘Heart’, ‘Head’, ‘Hand’ and ‘Habit’

dimensions of him or her. The assignment will be of 10 computer typed pages. More details will be given in the class.

Last date: 15th October 2011

4.2

Group Assignment-Celebrating Change:

The participants will be divided into group will prepare and present a case study on any organisation which has embraced a major change in the last 3years. The focus will be on the process and the OD Intervention used to bring out the desired change. The group will submit a report (20 pages) and present the assignment in the class.

Last date for submission: 30th October, 2011

4. Evaluation Criteria

Individual Assignment : 20 %

Group Assignment (Report and Presentation) : 30 %

End Term : 40 %

Participation in learning : 10%

ORGANISATION CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT
Course Outline

Session No.	Topic(s)	Readings
1.	Evolution of Organisations	History of Ford, Shell, British Airways, Tata, SBI and Microsoft. *(Will be given in the class for discussion)* *Laubacher et al*: Two Scenarios for 21st Century Organisations: Shifting Networks of Small Firms or All-Encompassing “Virtual Countries”
2&3.	Organisation Change and Development: Basic concepts, principles, foundations and values	*Rothwell and Sullivan: Organisation Development Alban and Schere* r:On the Shoulders of Giants: The Origins of OD *Sanzgiri and Gottlieb: Philosophic and Pragmatic Influences on the Practice of OD,1950-2000 Hamel and Prahalad*: Competing for the Future, HBR, Juy-August 1994
4&5.	Framework for Scanning and Diagnosis	*Cummings and Worley*: Diagnosing organisations
6.	Changing Face of Organisational Culture	*Edgar Schein*: Taking Organisation Culture Seriously
7,8, 9 & 10	OD Interventions: Process, Methods and Tools	*Pareek, Scherer and Brinkerhoff: Person-Centred OD Interventions Dyer, Jr: Team Building: Past, present and Future Cummings and Worley:* Designing Interventions Cummings and Feyerherm: Interventions in Large Systems *Peppin and Snigdha*: Widening the Boundaries of Appreciative Inquiry for Building a Culture of Organisational Excellence: A Case Study
11,12 &13.	Leaders / Champions of Organisational Change and Development	Life history of founders of some of the leading organisations from the corporate and social sector. *(Will be given in the class for discussion)* *Eisenstat, Beer, Foote, Fredberg and Norrgren: The Uncompromising Leader, BHR, 2008 Applebaum and Paese: What Senior Leaders Do: The Nine Roles of Strategic leadership Kleiner*: The Man Who Saw The Future
14	Consultant Models and Competencies and Values of OC&D Practitioners	*William, Rothwell and Sullivan: Competencies of OD Practitioners Egan and Gellermann: Values, Ethics and Practice in the Field of OD Tannenbaum and Eisen*: The Personhood of the Consultant: The OD Practitioner as Human Being
15	Understanding Immunity/Resistance to Change	*Robert Kegan and L.L. Lahey: Overcoming the Immunity to Change in Organisations, Individuals and Teams*
16& 17.	Making and Managing Change: Paradigms and Practices	*Burke: Implementation and Continuing the Change Effort Ostroff*: Change Management in Government, HBR, 2006
18.	Learning Organization	*Garvin, Edmondson and Gino: Is Yours a Learning Organisation?, HBR, 2008 Levitt and James*: Organisational Learning
19 & 20	Presentation and discussion on Case Studies	Led by the students, based on their group assignment

Basic References

1. French, Wendell L., Cecil H., Organisation Development: Behavioural science Interventions for Organisation Improvement. VI th Edition, Prentice Hall of India, Pvt.Ltd. New Delhi, 1996

2. Senge M. Peter., The Fifth Discipline: The art and practice of learning organization. Doubleday, New York, 1990

3. David Bernstein: How to Change the World

4. Sinha P. Dharni., T-Group, Team Building and Organisation Development. ISABS, New Delhi, 1986

5. Hatch J. Mary., Organisation Theory. OUP, New York, 1997

6. Huse, Edgar and Thomas G. Cummings, Organisation Development and Change, West Publishing Co., New York, 1985

7. HBR on Knowledge Management, HBR Press, 1998

8. Cook, Sarah and Hilary, Coldicot, Change Management Excellence, Kogan Page, 2004

9. Senge M. Peter and others., Presence: Exploring Profound Change in People, Organisations and Society, Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2005

10. Sumantra Ghoshal, Gita Piramal and Sudeep Budhiraja: World Class in India

11. Rothwell J. William., Sullivan Rolland., Practicing Organisation Development: A Guide for Consultants, 2 nd Edition, Pfeiffer, USA, 2005

12. Kegan Robert et al;, Immunity to Change, Harvard Business Press, Boston, 2009

Additional References:

1. Senge et al., The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustaining Momentum in Learning Organisations,

2. Quinn E. Robert., Discovering the Leader Within

3. Shukla Maddhukar., Undersatnding Organisations, PHI, Delhi

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