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ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND CHANGE

FAST-NU Spring 2010

Course Description:

This course is a combination laboratory-field course requiring the integration of behavioralscience theories, tools, concepts, and techniques learned in the class to an OB application in a"real" organization.

Course Objective(s):

At the end of this course, the student should understand important topics central toorganizational development and change. Specifically, students should:

Understand that there are many multiple views of organizations that influenceorganizational change

Understand the nature of planned change, theories and types of change, the role ofvalues and ethics in organizational change, and the concept of emergent change

Understand and be able to apply the process oforganizational developmentincludinginitiating change and OD relationships, diagnosing organizational issues, andcollecting and analyzing data as well as change implementation processes

Complete a service learning or action research project during the semester andprovide both oral and written reports of the project

Required Text:

Cummings, T. and Worley, C. (2004) Organizational Development and Change 8th EditionISBN: 0324260601

- Additional Required Reading: Periodically during this course additional reading to

augment the textbooks on certain topics will be required. Additional requiredmaterials will be provided either available to students through electronic resources atHEC digital library or in some cases arranged by the instructor.

CLASS STRUCTURE: Classes will be a combination of mini-lectures, discussions (especially ofassigned readings and projects), activities and guest speakers. A schedule is provided listingtopics I expect to cover each week. Short lectures will be used to highlight some of thematerial in the textbook, other assigned reading, cases or exercises, or additional outsidematerial relevant to the course topics.GRADING AND EVALUATION:

First Mid Term: 10 marks

Second Mid Term: 15 Marks

Class Participation: 05 Marks

Quiz and Assignment: 05 Marks

Course project and presentations: 15 Marks

Final Exam: 50 Marks

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Tentative lecture Plan

WEEK DAY Class Activity/Readings**due before this class

Assignment Due

WEEK 1Change Models: Lewin

and Big Three

WednesdayThursday

Welcome/Orientation

Lewins Change

Model Big Three Model of

ChangeIn class, compare/contrasttwo models

Read Heart of Change fornext class meeting

WEEK 2 WednesdayThursday

Organizational DevelopmentC& W Chapters 1-2-3

No assignment

WEEK 3Entering and ContractingHeart of Change Model

WednesdayThursday Organizational Development

C& W Chapters 1-2-3-4

All read Heart of Changepdf- Compare/contrast withLewin and Big Three Models.

Groups will provide apresentation of a chapterthey analyze. Guidelinesfor this presentation will begiven in class.In addition, groups willprovide a 500-1500 word

(single spaced) documentsummarizing the chapter,highlighting key points andresponding to keyquestions. Guidelines forthis paper will be providedin class.

WEEK 4Diagnosing Organizations

WednesdayThursday

Organizational DevelopmentC& W Chapters 1-2-3-4-5- Compare/Contrast PositiveModel with other models

Selection of ActionResearchfocus/organization

WEEK 5Diagnosing groups andjobs

WednesdayThursday

Organizational DevelopmentProcessC& W Chapters 4-5-6

Quiz 1

WEEK 6

Collecting and analyzinginformationDesigning interventions

Wednesday

Thursday

Organizational Development

Process (continued)C& W Chapters 7-8-9

Progress reports onprojects

WEEK 7Leading ChangeGuest Speaker

WednesdayThursday

Leading ChangeC&W Chapter 10Evaluating OD interventionsC&W Chapter 11

No assignment

WEEK 8Human resourceinterventions

WednesdayThursday

C&W Chapter 12-13

Quiz 2

WEEK 9Techno structuralInterventions

WednesdayThursday

C&W Chapter 14-15-16 .

WEEK 10Human Resourcemanagement

Interventions

WednesdayThursday

Human ResourcesInterventions

Quiz 3

WEEK 11Human ResourcemanagementInterventions

WednesdayThursdayFocus on AR projects

Human ResourcesInterventionsC&W Chapters 17-18

Progress reports onprojects

WEEK 12Strategic Interventions

WednesdayThursdayFocus on AR projects

Strategic InterventionsC&W Chapters 19-20

Progress reports onprojects

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WEEK 13Emergent Change

WednesdayThursdayFocus on ActionResearch Projects

Compare/Contrast Emergentchange with other models

Progress reports onprojects

WEEK 14The Individual Perspective

WednesdayThursday Progress reports on

projectsWEEK 15 Wednesday

ThursdayFocus on Projects Progress reports on

projectsWEEK 16 Wednesday

Thursday

Future of OD

C&W CH 21-22-23Final ProjectPresentations/Papers Due

Finals Week Seminar Research PaperDue