Course Description
Course explores theories, frameworks, practical interventions, and best practices associated with successfully designing, implementing, and institutionalizing organizational change, and studies rapidly changing global marketplace companies with a “change ready” culture and related capabilities who are positioned to thrive while others are at risk.
Athena Title
Change Management
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in EMBA 7810E
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
- Students will be able to identify factors contributing to the rapid pace of change in today’s business environment.
- Students will be able to list multiple reasons employees may not readily embrace change.
- Students will be able to select tactics and techniques to increase employee openness to change.
- Students will be able to identify and describe theories, interventions, and/or models associated with organizational change.
- Students will be able to create and detail an organizational intervention to address a specific challenge and/or opportunity relevant to their employer, business, and/or industry.
Topical Outline
- In today’s dynamic, rapidly changing global marketplace, companies with a “change ready” culture and related capabilities are positioned to thrive while others are at risk.
- Accordingly, professionals who can lead major change within their organizations are well positioned for prosperous careers. To this end, this graduate-level course explores theories, frameworks, practical interventions, and best practices associated with successfully designing, implementing, and institutionalizing organizational change.
- The course is dynamic in that it weaves a high degree of student interaction, group exercises, expert speakers, and practical assignments to achieve the learning outcomes of the course.
