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            Management of Change Transformation

The purpose of this course is to learn to plan and implement change at the individual, group and organisational level. The course is designed to help the students develop as potential change agents and OD professionals. After completing this course you should: be able to understand the theory and practice relating to the processes of organization development and change develop insight and competence in diagnostic and intervention processes and skills for initiating and facilitating change in organizations and gain necessary self- insight, skills and techniques to become effective change agents and internal OD consultants.

Topics

1. Introduction- Definitions of organizational development- Growth and Relevance of OD.

2. Planned Organisational Change- Change- planned, unplanned, Lewin’s change model, Action research model, Contemporary action research, General model of planned change, Different types of planned change.

3. Foundations of OD- Models and theories of planned change- Systems theory- Participation and empowerment- Teams and teamwork- Parallel learning structures- Normative re-educative strategy of changing- Applied behavioral science.

4. Entry and Contract- Managing the OD process, Phases of OD programs, Model for managing change.

5. Organisational Diagnosis- Diagnosis- the systems, its subunits, and processes, Six- Box Model, Third -wave consulting.

6. Feedback and OD- Feedback, Intervention and evaluation

7. OD Interventions: An Overview- Definition of OD interventions- A brief word about the nature of OD interventions, Robert Blake and Jane Mouton intervention, Classifying OD interventions, Families of OD interventions.

8. Individual and Interpersonal Interventions- Employee empowerment, Sensitivity training laboratories, Johari window model, Transactional analysis, Behavior modeling, life and career planning interventions.

9. Team / Group Interventions- Teams and Work groups, strategic units...