VETS7026 Leadership: Managing Change

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Residential, online

Core

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The Leadership: Managing Change unit of study will cover advanced leadership and management issues in veterinary public health. A key role for managers and leaders is managing change. The aims of this course are to:

• introduce you to selected theories and concepts which underpin the practice of change management
• explore the roles that you and others play in initiating and facilitating organisations to change
• provide you with frameworks for analysing and understanding your own experience of change in organisations
• identify the range of key skills you need to effectively lead and implement change
• assess your own change skills and recognise the special abilities you have already developed.

This course looks at change on many levels, beginning with a micro focus on the individual and culminating with a more macro view of the whole organisational system. It balances practical skill building with a solid foundation of theoretical understanding. In this unit of study students will explore managing change around three central concepts:

• the change agent
• change perspectives
• change and organisations.

This unit of study builds on basic leadership knowledge and skills acquired in the Leadership, People and Organisations unit of study.

Assessment of the Leadership: Managing Change unit of study will include:

• individual workplace change project proposal (20%)
• individual workplace change project report (50%)
• online work with learning partners throughout semester (30%: 15% peer assessment; 15% facilitator assessment).

• Organizational Change
  Barbara Senior and Jocelyne Fleming, 2006
  Prentice Hall, Essex.
  
  Suppliers:
  University of NSW Bookshop
  
  

• Ms Loretta O'Donnell