COURSE INFORMATON
Course Title
Code
Management of Change
Prerequisites
MNGT 551
Semester
L+P Hour
Fall 2014
3+0
Credits
ECTS
3
5
-
Language of
Instruction
English
Course Level
Master's Degree (Second Cycle Programmes)
Course Type
Compulsory
Course
Coordinator
-
Instructors
Asst. Prof. Dr. Murat Yücelen
Assistants
-
Goals
To explore and discuss the need and nature of planning for change,
managing change, and measuring change in the context of different
situations, companies and industries.
Content
This course addresses the issues and challenges in identifying, planning and
executing change processes at various levels of contemporary organizations,
by providing theories and methods associated with organizational change and
development.
Learning Outcomes
Program
Learning Teaching Methods
Outcomes
Assessment Methods
1) Introduces
the central
change
management
theories and
frameworks
1,2,6,9
1,2,3
A,B,D
2) Applies
those theories
and
frameworks
to analyze
and address
real life
problems
related to
organizational
change
3) Provides a
mentality for
1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9
1,2,3,4,6,7,8,9
1,2,3,12
1,2,3,12
A,B,D
A,B,D
understanding
and
successfully
planning and
executing
(leading)
organizational
change
4) Explains
the role of
organizational
structure,
culture,
power and
politics in
managing
change
1,4,6,9,10
1,2,3,12
A,B,D
Teaching
Methods:
1: Lecture, 2: Question-Answer, 3: Discussion, 12: Case Study
Assessment
Methods:
A: Exam , B: Assignment, C: Student Presentations, D: Project
COURSE CONTENT
Week Topics
1 Introduction, Background & Definitions
2
A Historic Approach to Change Management and
Organizational Transformation
The Nature of Organizational Change and the
3 Levels of Organization Change: Individual, Group,
and Larger System
Study Materials (Text 1)
Managing change (Ch.1,2)
History of managing change
(Ch.1,2)
Levels of change (Ch.3,8,
handouts, ppt.)
4 Conceptual Approaches to Managing Change
Planned/Emergent/Continuous
(Ch.3,8)
5 Identifying the need for Change
Theoretical foundations (Ch.
10)
6 Frameworks for Initiating Change
Choice, structure, strategy
and leadership (Ch.6,10 ctd.)
7 Midterm Exam
8 Culture, Power & Politics
Power and politics (Ch 5)
9 Planning Change Processes
Planning for change (Ch.7,
handouts, ppt.)
10 Managing Change Projects & Knowledge
Project & knowledge
management (Ch.7,
handouts, ppt.)
11
The Organizational Development Process &
Techniques
OD (Ch.7 ctd., handouts,
ppt.)
12
Change Strategies, Choices & Constraints:
Managing Resistance to Change
Structure-strategy, top
management support, conflict
over resources (Ch.6)
13
Implementation of Change Processes & Best
Practices
Execution of change initiatives
(Ch. 11)
14 Leading Organizational Transformation & Learning
Management & leadership
roles & responsibilities
(Ch.12)
15 Course Conclusions and Review
All Topics
16 Final Exam
RECOMMENDED SOURCES
Textbooks: (1) Burns, Bernard (2009). Managing Change, 5th ed. FT/Prentice Hall.
(2) Weiss, W. Joseph (2003). Managing Change in the Workplace.
Leyh Publ., University of Phoenix
Additional Resources: Course presentations, handouts, cases
MATERIAL SHARING
Documents
Power point presentations, handouts, cases and relevant websites
related to all concepts discussed in class.
Case analyses related to best practices in change management
Assignments
Exams
One midterm, one final exam
ASSESSMENT
IN-TERM STUDIES
NUMBER
PERCENTAGE
Mid-term
1
45
Assignment (term project)
1
45
Class participation and attendance
1
10
Total
100
CONTRIBUTION OF FINAL EXAMINATION TO OVERALL
GRADE
35
CONTRIBUTION OF IN-TERM STUDIES TO OVERALL
GRADE
65
Total
COURSE CATEGORY
100
Expertise/Field Courses
COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
No Program Learning Outcomes
Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
Students learn the essential body of knowledge in business management
(functions of management: organization theory: policy and strategy:
1
information, technology and operations management; human capital
management; accounting; finance; marketing; economics; and an
X
integrated perspective) and apply them in business life.
2
Students can apply business theories and methods by gaining expertise in at
least one of the areas; accounting and finance, management, marketing or
X
human resources management.
Students with their research methodologies knowledge can choose the
3
4
5
appropriate methods for data gathering and analyzing and can understand
and interpret the results, studies and reports.
X
Students gain the required qualifications to make strategic decisions and to
take the leader role.
X
Students have the tendency to take active role in team work and can
X
contribute to the team consciously.
6
Students can evaluate information coming from different disciplines,
combine those information and they have an interdisciplinary viewpoint.
7
Students have the responsibility and knowledge to conduct independent and
original studies both in business and academic arena.
8
Students should demonstrate that they have the discipline and responsibility
to conduct an independent study, project, research.
9
Students can follow the local and global business environment dynamics and
interpret them.
X
X
X
X
10 Students understand business ethics and social responsibility concepts
X
Students have required the English proficiency to follow the current events
11 and improvements in their professional area and to communicate their ideas
in international business arena.
12
X
Students should understand the importance of lifelong learning to maintain
personal and professional development.
Students can demonstrate that they have the commercial law knowledge
13 which is shaping the global business world and though these they have the
ability to reach a solution.
X
X
ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION
Activities
Quantity
Total
Duration
Workload
(Hour)
(Hour)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course
hours)
16
3
48
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)
16
2
32
Mid-terms
1
6
6
Assignment
3
6
18
Final
1
12
12
Total Work Load
116
Total Work Load / 25 (h)
4,64
ECTS Credit of the Course
5