Managing Change and Crisis in Organisations

The outcomes of change -Is Change Worse than the Disease? -Change is Affective -Survivor sickness -Post merger trauma

Core concepts -What is an Organisation -What is Organisational change -Why do organisations change -Theories of organisations in time -What is organizational decline -Reversing organisational decline

Continuous change -Tempo Theory of Change (Weick & Quinn, 1999) -Organizational Becoming (Tsoukas & Chia, 2002) -Organizational Improvisation -The Innovation Factory (Hargadon & Sutton, 2000) Achieving Radical Change Incrementally -Radical Change the Quiet Way (Meyerson, 2001) -Effective Radicals (Battilana & Casciara, 2012) -Recruiting Radicals -How to Build Change Capability

Overview Mapping change Change theories Lewin's method Kotter's 8 steps Nadler and Tushman 1989 Sirkin et al 2005

Organisational change typologies. Episodic vs. continuous change; incremental vs. strategic change; reactive vs. anticipatory change. Structural change Mergers and Acquisitions Organisational crisis

In-depth lecture, reading, and research notes (lectures 1-5) containing theories, examples, and diagrams. If memorised and used well, a first is easily achievable in the exam.