Unit Outline

Organisations everywhere now operate in an environment of rapid, on-going and disruptive change. Leaders play a key role managing such change, which can include system-wide and local reforms, restructuring and innovations. Often, many planned changes are not implemented in practice as originally conceived. This unit examines some of the forces of change and for change in society today, focusing in particular on both barriers and facilitators. Students will develop deeper understandings of change processes, appreciate the complexities of these processes and identify some strategies to successfully lead change.

Intended Learning Outcomes

As per the Assessment and Results Policy 1.3, your results will reflect your achievement against specified learning outcomes.

On completion of this unit, you will be able to:


1	Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the nature of, and challenges of change in complex organisations today and how leaders might respond to such changes.
2	Critically examine these challenges through the analysis, synthesis and evaluation of relevant literature
3	Apply new knowledge and understanding in a critically analytical way to practice
4	Critically reflect upon and evaluate leadership of organisational change in practice

Requisites


REQUISITE TYPE	REQUISITES
Anti-requisite (mutual excl)	ESM707

Alterations as a result of student feedback

Content, readings, and some activities have been updated

How will I be Assessed?

For more detailed assessment information please see MyLO.

Assessment schedule


ASSESSMENT TASK #	ASSESSMENT TASK NAME	DATE DUE	WEIGHT	LINKS TO INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Assessment Task 1:	Critical Reflection	Week 6	30 %	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4
Assessment Task 2:	Reflection	Week 13	20 %	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4
Assessment Task 3:	Case Study	Week 13	50 %	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4

Assessment details

Assessment Task 1: Critical Reflection

Task Description:

Assessment Task 1:
Describe a change you have experienced in your work context and the impact of the change on you personally and professionally. Select and then justify an organisational change theory/model that best describes the process of change that was undertaken, pointing out the aspects (if any) that were not implemented properly. Use the literature (including set readings) to support your discussion and analysis.

Task Length:

1200 words

Due Date:

Week 6

Weight:

30 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Description of professional work context and organisational change, and personal/professional impact of change	LO1
2	Knowledge and understanding of the personal impact of change and organisational change theory based on literature (including set readings)	LO2
3	Presentation of ideas – follows specified genre/structure and APA convention for academic writing and referencing	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4
4	Application and analysis of the organisational change in the light of organisational changes theories/models, set readings and other literature	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4

Assessment Task 2: Reflection

Task Description:

Assessment Task 3:
This task requires you to undertake two activities that are based on discussion forum posts in EDP716. First, you are required to engage in the Discussion Forum questions that are set for each of the four modules in EDP716 by posting a thoughtful comment to present your viewpoint, and/or responding to another's comment in a constructive and reflective way. You are required to complete a minimum of 1 discussion forum post per module (total 4 posts). The second task requires you to write a short reflective essay based on one discussion forum post written by a peer. Provide a rationale for choosing this particular discussion post and evaluate the ideas/reflections made by your peer in the light of your experience and the set readings from EDP716 (plus other literature).

Task Length:

800 words

Due Date:

Week 13

Weight:

20 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Demonstrate relevant and constructive insights in response to discussion forum questions	LO1, LO4
2	Provide a rationale for selecting the particular discussion post	LO1
3	Evaluation of ideas / reflections made by a peer in the light of own experience and set readings (plus other literature)	LO2, LO3
4	Presentation of ideas - follows specified genre / structure and APA convention for academic writing and referencing	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4

Assessment Task 3: Case Study

Task Description:

Assessment Task 2:
Describe an organisational change and how it was lead in your work context. Evaluate the leadership of the change against a set of criteria derived from change theories, set readings and other literature. Indicate the strengths and weaknesses of the leadership of change for each of the criteria. Based on your evaluation, distil two key lessons that can be learned for leaders in your context regarding the effective leadership of change.

Task Length:

2000 words

Due Date:

Week 13

Weight:

50 %

CRITERION #

CRITERION

MEASURES INTENDED

LEARNING OUTCOME(S)


1	Description of professional work context and organisational change	LO1
2	Establishment of a set of criteria for the leadership of change based on change theories, set readings, and other literature	LO2
3	Application and evaluation of the leadership of change in the light of theories, set readings, and other literature	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4
4	Presentation of ideas – follows specified genre/structure and APA convention for academic writing and referencing	LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4

How your final result is determined

To pass this unit, you need to demonstrate your attainment of each of the Intended Learning Outcomes, achieve a final unit grade of 50% or greater, and pass any hurdle tasks.

Academic progress review

The results for this unit may be included in a review of your academic progress. For information about progress reviews and what they mean for all students, see Academic Progress Review in the Student Portal.

Submission of assignments

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Academic integrity

Academic integrity is about acting responsibly, honestly, ethically, and collegially when using, producing, and communicating information with other students and staff members.

In written work, you must correctly reference the work of others to maintain academic integrity. To find out the referencing style for this unit, see the assessment information in the MyLO site, or contact your teaching staff. For more detail about Academic Integrity, see Important Guidelines & Support.

Requests for extensions

If you are unable to submit an assessment task by the due date, you should apply for an extension.

A request for an extension should first be discussed with your Unit Coordinator or teaching support team where possible. A request for an extension must be submitted by the assessment due date, except where you can provide evidence it was not possible to do so. Typically, an application for an extension will be supported by documentary evidence: however, where it is not possible for you to provide evidence please contact your Unit Coordinator.

The Unit Coordinator must notify you of the outcome of an extension request within 3 working days of receiving the request.

Late penalties

Assignments submitted after the deadline will receive a late penalty of 5% of the original available mark for each calendar day (or part day) that the assignment is late. Late submissions will not be accepted more than 10 calendar days after the due date, or after assignments have been returned to other students on a scheduled date, whichever occurs first. Further information on Late Penalties can be found on the Assessments and Results Procedure.