MN32201: Leading and managing change
[Page last updated: 23 May 2025]
| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | School of Management |
| Credits: | 10 [equivalent to 20 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 200 |
| Level: | Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
| Period: |
- Semester 2
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| Assessment Summary: | CWES 75%, CWVG 25% |
| Assessment Detail: |
- Case analysis (CWVG 25%)
- Case analysis of leading and managing change (CWES 75%)
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| Supplementary Assessment: |
- Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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| Requisites: |
Before taking this module you must take MN12010 OR take MN22028 OR take MN20080 OR take MN20291 OR take MN20624 OR take MN12016
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| Learning Outcomes: |
By the end of this unit, participants should have/be able to demonstrate:
- An in-depth understanding of organisational change, the contexts in which it operates, and how change can be effectively managed.
- The facility to apply critically subject-specific knowledge into a range of change situations.
- A conceptual understanding of theoretical frameworks that enable the student to link, meaningfully, theory and practice of organisational change.
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| Synopsis: | Participants will gain an appreciation of the forces that are driving and resisting change in organisations, and why leading and managing change is challenging for many organisations. The unit will support you in developing a toolbox of concepts and skills to understand projects of change. Participants will develop their capacities to engage creatively and reflexively with issues of leading and managing change, and independence in constructing arguments, analysis, and research.
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| Content: | The unit will cover a variety of aspects related to change within organisations such as the influence of power and politics, communication during change, learning from change, and different types of change interventions.
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| Course availability: |
MN32201 is Optional on the following courses:
Department of Chemistry
- USCH-AFB22 : BSc(Hons) Chemistry with Management (Year 3)
- USCH-AFM22 : MSci(Hons) Chemistry with Management (Year 3)
School of Management
- UMMN-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Finance (Year 3)
- UMMN-AKB02 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Finance with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UMMN-AFB11 : BSc(Hons) Accounting and Management (Year 3)
- UMMN-ANB07 : BSc(Hons) Business with Thin sandwich placement(s) (Year 4)
- UMMN-AYB06 : BSc(Hons) International Management with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UMMN-AFB14 : BSc(Hons) Management (Year 3)
- UMMN-AKB04 : BSc(Hons) Management with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UMMN-AKB05 : BSc(Hons) Management with Marketing with Year long work placement (Year 4)
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
- UXXX-AYB05 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (French) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UXXX-AYB04 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (German) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UXXX-AYB06 : BSc(Hons) International Management and Modern Languages (Spanish) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
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Notes: - This unit catalogue is applicable for the 2025/26 academic year only. Students continuing their studies into 2026/27 and beyond should not assume that this unit will be available in future years in the format displayed here for 2025/26.
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