Organizational Development and Change

Introduksjon

Organizations today often struggle to create meaningful, sustainable changes. In today's world, organizations face both increasing complexity driven by technological and regulatory shifts, the rise of virtual work, and volatile business environments.  This Master of Science course delves into these messy situations, where actors often find themselves in a "fog" of entangled problems, to sort out the central issues and challenges organizations must address. We emphasize the critical need for inquiry, discovery, sensemaking, experimentation and learning to navigate these environments. Complex environments are frequently characterized by wicked problems, for which no ready-made solutions exist, in that there is a knowledge gap regarding what works, and stakeholders with different worldviews, values and interests. This course recognizes that leading change is rarely accomplished by individual leaders, it is a collective effort.

The course aims to equip students to better manage organizational change by learning underlying theories and perspectives as well as gaining skills and develop their reflection on values and norms guiding change efforts. Practitioners often draw on popular recipes for managing change rather than research-based insights and approaches. Through the course, students shall be able to critically assess recipes, templates and models of change that are circulated by consultants and management theorists. The students will also be exposed to a series of cases that are controversial and ambiguous, thus well suited to develop judgment from. The course draws on literature from social psychology, organization theory, culture studies, action research as well as applied management studies of organization development, change management, and design thinking.

Kursets innhold

The course is delivered in a compressed format, over six lecture days & one webinar

DAY 1 Planned change 
•    From popular recipes to evidence-based change management
•    Change interventions, interactions and employee reactions
DAY 2 Participative change 
•    From diagnostic to dialogic Organization Development 
•    Framing, sensemaking & generative change 
Change management simulation - webinar
•    3 hour online virtual simulation game acting as a change agent 
DAY 3 Designing change 
•    From user centric to planet centric approaches
•    Experimentation and prototyping
DAY 4 Technical change
•    Socio-technical systems change
•    Algorithmic change
DAY 5 Competing logics
•    Promoting diversity
•    Changes in professional organizations
DAY 6 Change and Complexity 
•    Changing complex adaptive systems
•    Collective & distributed leadership of change

Forbehold

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