Or­gan­isa­tion­al Change

Course content

This course is concerned with the challenges of initiating and implementing change within and across organisations. The course covers a wide range of topics such as change management models, resistance to change, change communication and interventions, etc. Furthermore, the course will look at how organisations are affected by contemporary changes in broader society (e.g., increased expectations regarding corporate responsibility or workforce diversity). To investigate actual change challenges in organisational practice, students will be trained in how to craft a research question and how to make methodological choices.

With this course, we contribute to three of CBS’s “Nordic Nine” educational goals in particular: First, with the course’s focus on applying methodological rigor in ambiguous practical contexts (e.g., change for diversity in organizational settings), we directly address NN2 “You are analytical with your data and curious about ambiguity”. Second, we sensitize students for ethical decision-making in organizations and provide them with dialogue-centered tools for driving organizational transformations; in this way, we directly address NN5 “You understand ethical dilemmas and have the leadership values to overcome them”. Third, the main assignment of this course is a live case study in collaboration with an organization from practice where students learn to find constructive solutions while preserving critical-analytical distance to the case at hand; in this way, we directly address NN6 “You are critical when thinking and constructive when collaborating”.