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MS4048: UNDERSTANDING AND MANAGING CHANGE (2024-2025)

Last modified: 23 Jul 2024 11:04


Course Overview

There are many jobs available every year in the consultancy sector and preparing to apply for one requires knowledge, skill and experience demonstrated to your future employer. This course is intended to introduce you to the work of management consultants and identify the competencies you will require to apply for a career in consultancy. The course will include group presentation work which will be assessed by your tutors (who have both been consultants) and past students who have are now employed in consultancy who will advise you on how best to apply for a position in this important sector.

Course Details

Study Type Undergraduate Level 4
Term First Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Carol Smith

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Either Programme Level 4 or Programme Level 5
  • Any Undergraduate Programme

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

Course Aims

The course aims are:

  1. To provide you with theoretical and practical knowledge pertaining to managing change at individual, group and organisational level.
  2. To prepare you with knowledge to identify need for personal change for future career development.
  3. To equip you with skills and tools needed to become an internal change agent in your future workplaces or support a career in management consultancy as an external change agent.

Main Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able to:

  • Provide an historical overview of relevant change management theories;
  • Compare and contrast the dominant models and frameworks for understanding types of change;
  • Discuss and debate organisational change programmes focusing on quality, re-engineering, culture, learning, knowledge and technology;
  • Identify and assess issues pertaining to the 'practice' of managing change;
  • Explain the linkage between theory and practice in making sense of organisational change.

Content

The course explores how organisations change and demystifies some of the new management approaches which have emerged internationally, and examines the history of management theory and the future development of business organisations.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 70
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback Word Count 2000
Learning Outcomes
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Oral Presentation: Group

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 30
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Feedback

Group Presentation submitted in powerpoint format (Max. 10 mins.- 30%)
Learning Outcomes
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Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback Word Count 2000
Learning Outcomes
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