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Leading Organisational Improvement
Postgraduate | TAS-ESM710 | 2023
Course information for 2023 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Leading Organisational Improvement
About this subject
On successful completion of this Unit the learner will be able to:
- Demonstrate a body of knowledge and understanding of recent developments in leadership skills and strategies required for strategic leadership with a focus on continuous improvement in a rapidly changing environment
- Apply leadership understandings with reference to relevant analytical frameworks and insights from research and other writings to working environments including your own professional practice
- Critically analyse the work of leaders in organisational improvement
- Identify and evaluate an organisational problem in practice and devise leadership strategies for improvement
- The change context
- Leadership & organisational change
- Strategic leadership
- Managing complex change
- The organisational context
- Organisational culture & life cycle
- Organisational change and conflict
- The learning context
- Improvement & organisational learning
- Understanding continuous improvement
- Self evaluation for organisations
- The global context
- Leading in a global environment
- The role of international agencies
- Thinking and acting locally and globally
Discourses of improvement often drive the practice of leadership. Rapid changes to technology, increasing globalisation, and issues of organisational structure, culture and power impact on improvement agendas, as well as the quality and effectiveness of such improvement in practice.
In this unit, models of organisational improvement and the change process are considered, with attention given to strategies for managing and evaluating change effectively in educational, training and other organisational contexts. By the end of this unit, you will have developed advanced knowledge and skills in managing and evaluating change through the study of modules on: change contexts, organisational contexts, learning contexts, and the global context. One of the aims of this unit is to enable you to have a better understanding of how leaders can lead organisations with a strong focus on improvement.
- Annotated bibliography of three journal articles (40%)
- Leading organisational improvement in my workplace (60%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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