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4610: Managing Organizational Change and Human Resources ( forår 2010 - 0 ECTS )

Rammer for udbud

• Uddannelsessprog: dansk
• Niveau: COURSE LEVEL: MSc, compulsory course for the master (oecon-) study, AU-IBT
• Semester/kvarter:
• Timer per uge: NUMBER OF HOURS PER WEEK: Teaching load equivalent to 48 lectures: Either 1x4 hours or 2x2 hours per week.  
• Deltagerbegrænsning: RESTRICTIONS ON ADMISSION: This course may not appear on a study-program together with the following two courses: 4801 Organizational Change and Development and 4545 Human Resource Management.
• Undervisningssted: Århus
• Hovedområde: Det Samfundsvidenskabelige Fakultet
• Udbud ID: 17544

Formål

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Having participated in this course, student should be able to:

- describe different change models, diagnostic models and intervention mechanisms as well as processes of the organizational development

- describe human resource management topics such as job designs, recruitment, internal and external labour markets (ILM -High Commitment HR), training, promotion, outsourcing, organizing for HR and economic, social and psychological factors

- analyse organizational (human change as well as structural) problems and relate them to change theories and human resource management theories

- combine change theories and human resource management theories with each other and evaluate whether they interrelate or not

- analyze and generalise different change theories as well as Human Resource Management theories.

Indhold

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Many managers believe they can change an organization by changing the structure and the strategy of the company. But structures and strategies are only plans of the company and do not change anything. The best way to change the company is through the employees who are the major and most important change agents.

When employees become important, human resource management also becomes important. The course gives the student an opportunity to learn about the processes of changing organizations through the employees and to learn the importance of employees in changing the organization and the strategies. The best way of changing the organization is thus human resource management, and the way organizations deal with recruiting, training, promotion etc. prior to the change situation offers a good insight into how the organization deals with the changing process. Interventions have to be taken into consideration due to these human resource management processes. The course offers insight into both change theories and human resource theories and connects them to each other.

COURSE SUBJECT AREAS:

• Planned change and change models
• Diagnosing at different organizational levels
• Designing interventions
• Leading and managing change
• Evaluating and institutionalizing interventions
• Human process interventions
• Technostructural interventions
• Human Process interventions
• Strategic Change Interventions
• ILM and High Commitment
• Job design
• Recruitment
• Training
• Promotion
• Outsourcing
• Organizing for HRM

Faglige forudsætninger

REQUIRED COURSES (progression): None

Underviser

LECTURER: Michael Nørager 

Undervisnings- og arbejdsform

TEACHING METHOD: Lectures, group discussions, case work, writing paper and an active involvement of the host mentor company

TEACHING LANGUAGE: English

Litteratur

LITERATURE: (minor changes may occur)

Textbook:

Cummings, T. G. & Worley, C. G. (2005). Organization Development and Change, 8th ed. (latest edition). South Western College Publishing (Thomson Learning). 450 pages  

Baron, J. N. & Kreps, D. M. (1999) Strategic Human Resources. Frameworks for General Managers. 355 pages

Articles:

Larry E. Greiner: (1972): Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Growth . Harvard Business Review, 4 , 37- 46. 9 Pages

GRAND TOTAL: approx. 815 pages.

Bedømmelse

FORM OF ASSESSMENT: Oral exam of 20 minutes' duration based on the written paper (5 pages). The paper is a short description and analysis of a mentor company and is a joint work by 2-3 students. The paper should be available 2 weeks before the exam.

EXAMINATION AIDS ALLOWED: Only the written paper.