Organizations today are operating in a volatile environment. To cope with rapid changes which are triggered from not only the business environment, which is fiercely competitive, but also from within, organizations are trying to devise a variety of strategies to cope with these changes. In their journey to not only survive and sustain, but also to grow, they are initiating planned changes by re- orienting their systems, structures and processes, and particularly organizational processes. This course is designed to provide the students exposure to some of the strategies that are being adopted by organizations, both in India and abroad to manage change. The students after completing this course should be in a position to appreciate: (i) How organizations go through the process of managing change (ii) Measures or strategies adopted to manage change.
2. Student Learning Outcomes
After going through this course, students would be able to develop following skill-sets and knowledge base:
· To understand various theoretical issues on organizational change and development
· To develop knowledge and expertise for managing organizational change in integration with the learned theories
· To understand the strategic issues in organizational change and development
· To review the organizational change and development scenario in the corporate world
· To study various OD intervention tools for effective organization change and development
· To study scope of research on organization change and development
3. Required Text Books and Reading Material
Organizational Change and Development, Dipak Kumar Bhattacharyya, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, 2011. The book is available in the library and can be borrowed for the term.
Supplemental reading materials, case studies as may be required will be given time to time.
4. Tentative Session Plan
| Session | Topics/Activities | Reading/Case List etc. |
| 1 | Introduction to organizational change and development | Chapters 2 and 3 |
| 2 | -continued- | Chapters 2 and 3 |
| 3 | Understanding organizational change through ADKAR Model | Supplemental Materials |
| 4 | Managing organizational change through power, leadership, technology, and employees’ attitude | Chapters, 5, 6, 7, and 8 |
| 5 | -continued- | -do- |
| 6 | Case Analysis | To be given in the class |
| 7 | Cultural issues and organizational change | Chapter-9 |
| 8 | Case Analysis | To be given in the class |
| 9 | Organizational change through performance management | Chapter-10 |
| 10 | Quality management practices for organizational change | Chapters-11 and 12 |
| 12 | Organizational diagnosis and development | Chapters-13 and 14 |
| 13 | Developing questionnaire for diagnosis | Chapters-13, 14, and 15. |
| 14 | OD and Diversity management | Chapter-19 |
| 15 | Organizational Change and Development Research | Chapter-21 |
| 16, 17, 18, 19, 2-, | Presentations by students on case assignments and projects | Case assignments and projects will be given time to time
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5. Evaluation
· Case Studies (two written submission) 20
· HRP Exercises 20
· Project Assignments 20
· Presentations 10
· End-term Examination 30
6. Academic Integrity
Students have to show highest level of academic integrity in writing their assignments, giving presentations, and answering to the exercises, including their end-term examination. Plagiarism, copying, etc, will be seriously viewed, and anybody found to be in this will be penalized, like; no grades, expulsion from the programme, repeating the programme, etc., depending on the nature of offense. Faculty will be available for on-line help also, as may be required by the students time to time. Personal meeting with the faculty, if required may be arranged with prior appointment.