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Level 7 Diploma in Business and Organisational Psychology

Contextual Considerations in Change Implementation

BOP703 · Organisational Development and Change — Week 6 of 16

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This week’s topics

Contextual Considerations in Change Implementation

  1. Organisational culture and climate
  2. Leadership styles and change champions
  3. Ethical considerations during transition
  4. Sustaining change and preventing relapse
  5. Lecture 29 : Sustaining Change
  6. Fred Miller interviewed about Change Champions: A Dialogic Approach to Creating an Inclusive Culture
  7. Week 5-Lecture 20 : Change in Organization Culture

What you will be able to do

  • 2.2 Suggest the issues to consider when implementing change at an organisational context.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: suggest the issues to consider when implementing change at an organisational context.

Study materials

Videos

  • Fred Miller interviewed about Change Champions: A Dialogic Approach to Creating an Inclusive Culture · YouTube · Bushe-Marshak Institute · 22 min · for registered students
  • How to Be Effective Leaders in the Context of Organisational Change | LSE Festival Skills · YouTube · LSE · 60 min · for registered students
  • Ed Schein on Dialogic OD · YouTube · Bushe-Marshak Institute · 12 min · for registered students
  • Sarah Lewis talks about "Creating Energized Commitment to the Dialogic Approach" · YouTube · Bushe-Marshak Institute · 12 min · for registered students
  • Change Management Foundation Module 4 · YouTube · Agilehub · 11 min · for registered students
  • Change Management Foundation Module 7 · YouTube · Agilehub · 12 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • MIT OpenCourseWare 15.322 Leading Organizations II (Fall 2003) · Reading · MIT OpenCourseWare, course · for registered students
  • Organizational Behavior, ch. 15: Organizational Culture · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 640–697 · for registered students
  • Principles of Management, ch. 10.2–10.3: Organisational change and managing change · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 278–298 · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: The Organisational Change Cycle
  • Week 2: Models of Planned and Emergent Change
  • Week 3: Planning and Execution Approaches
  • Week 4: Psychology and Sources of Resistance
  • Week 5: Mitigating Resistance and Engaging Stakeholders
  • Week 6: Contextual Considerations in Change Implementation
  • Week 7: Foundations of OD and Structural Interventions
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Behavioural Techniques in Organisational Development
  • Week 10: Individual-Level OD Interventions
  • Week 11: Group and System-Wide OD Interventions
  • Week 12: Applying Organisational Development and Change in practice:…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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