Or­gan­iz­a­tion­al Change

Purpose

To turn your good ideas into reality, it is essential to have a deep understanding of change processes, including how both people and organisations function within these processes. It is crucial to establish effective collaboration across leaders and employees so that changes make sense and create value for both the individual employee and the entire organisation.

Your benefits

• A deeper and new understanding of change, change management and their prerequisites.
• Methods to analyse change within your own organisation, including sensemaking and narrative.
• A deeper understanding of your own and others’ roles in organisational change.
• Reflection on concrete experiences with change from your own organisation.
• Insights from various other organisations’ experiences with working with time and continuity in change.
• Narratives can be used as a driving force in relation to strategy, culture and organisational identity.

Description

Change management often fails because the focus is on the goal without considering where the organisation is and how it got there in the first place. In this course, we focus on achieving change through sensemaking, where continuity plays a vital role. Sensemaking occurs in the interaction between all employees and leaders and is the foundation for gaining support for changes, so they are translated into action across the organisation.

This course is not a review of all approaches to change management but is anchored in a process-theoretical understanding of how organisations and people function. A central idea in the course is that an organisation moves from the past to the present towards the future, and the success of change efforts is strongly linked to how meaningful they are perceived to be by all employees.

Themes

• Why change fails: on the search for fundamental purposes.
• Forms of change: targeted work with continuity.
• Strategy and the organisation’s identity over time.
• How to create meaning, lead sensemaking and frame changes.

• How to gain support for changes.

   

Regarding the exam:

Our teachers are also Danish-speaking and the exam can be conducted in Danish if your prefer. Please make sure to let the teachers know in advance.