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Course Plan MBA

Academic
Year

2015-16

Course Title

Organizational Change
and Development

Trimest
er
Course
Code

Course
Facilitator

Mutharasi P

Credits

mutharasi@tsm.ac.in

Total
no. of
session
s

25

E-Mail

VI
14MH61

COURSE OVERVIEW
The course is aimed at creating a practical understanding about the
Organizational change and Development process. This course will focus
on issues on how HR function can create insight and competencies for
initiating and facilitating change in organizations.
Learning Objectives:
1. To make students conversant with the concepts of Organizational
change and Development (MA, MB)
2. Understand how interventions are developed and applied in
organizations in order to drive business performance. (MA, MB)
3. Develop insight and competencies for initiating and facilitating
change in organizations (MC)
COURSE CONTENT:
Module I
The meaning and nature of organizational change - Planned change Barriers
to change - Organizational culture and change

Module II

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Managing resistance to change Individual and group resistance

overcoming resistance Change agent key roles strategic management of
change process of change Organizational diagnosis

Module III
Organization Development Definitions and historical overview Values,
assumptions and beliefs The OD process

Module IV
OD Interventions Team Interventions, Intergroup and Third-party
peacemaking Interventions, Comprehensive and Structural Interventions,
HRM Interventions

Module V
Issues in client-consultant relationships Power, Politics and Organization
Development, The future and Organization Development
Text Book:

Cummings, G. Thomas and Worley, G. Christopher, Organization

Development and Change, Thompson Publications, 2005

References:
1. Wendell L French Cecil H Bell, Veena Vohra, Organization
Development behavioral science Interventions for organizational
Improvement, Pearson , Sixth Edition
2. Harsh Pathak, Organizational change, Pearson, 2011

EVALUATION COMPONENT
Evaluatio
n
paramete
r
Case
Discussion

Descriptions

Students will be assigned cases, and will be

evaluated based on their preparation,
presentation and integration and the ability

Mar
ks

LO

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to answer questions
Quiz

Students will be given surprise and planned

quizzes

10 1-3

Mid term

A Midterm exam (standard format) will be

conducted.

25 1-3

End term
(Exam for
100
marks)

A written exam will be conducted at the end

of the trimester (Standard format) for 100
marks. This will carry 40% of the evaluation
marks.

40 1-3

Total
marks

100

SESSION PLAN

Sessio
n No.

Dates

02.02.16

Introduction to

03.02.16

The meaning and nature

of organizational change.

04.02.16

Planned change theories of planned

change

05.02.16

Article 1:

3
4

Topic

Organizational Change
and Development

Change faster. How to build

adaptive change in your

Sessi
on
Objec
tives
(LO if
applic
able)
1

1 -3
2 and
3
2 and
3

Reading
Material

Chapter 1

Chapter 2
Chapter 2

Material will
be provided

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organization by John P.

Kotter.

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Leading change

2 and
3

Chapter 10

Organizational culture
and change

2 and
3

Material will
be provided

2 and
3

Material will
be provided

Change agent key roles

2 and
3

Material will
be provided

29.02.16

Process of change
Organizational diagnosis

2 and
3

Chapter 5 & 6

01.03.16

Article 2:

09.02.16
6

Quiz - 1

23.02.16
7

8
9

24.02.16

Managing resistance to
change Individual and
group resistance,
Overcoming resistance

Material will
be provided

The Real Reason

People Wont Change

10

by Robert Kegan and Lisa

Laskow Lahey

2 and
3

Quiz - 2

02.03.16
11

12
13

02.03.16
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Organization
Development
Definitions and history

2 and
3

The OD practitioner

2 and
3

Values, assumptions and

beliefs

2 and
3

Chapter 1

Chapter 3
Chapter 4

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The process OF OD

2 and
3

Designing interventions

2 and
3

Chapter 9

2 and
3

Material will
be provided

2 and
3

Chapter 12

Article 3:

Cracking the Code of

Change

16

by Michael Beer and Nitin

Nohria

Quiz - 3

17

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OD Interventions Team
Interventions

17.03.16

Intergroup and Thirdparty peacemaking

Interventions

22.03.16

Article 4:

18

Change Through

19

Persuasion

2 and
3

Chapter 12

Material will
be provided
2 and
3

by David A. Garvin and

Michael A. Roberto

20
21
22

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Comprehensive and
Structural Interventions

2 and
3

Chapter 17 &
18

HRM Interventions
Article 5:

Tipping Point

Chapter 14,
15 & 16

2 and
3

Chapter 9

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Leadership
by W. Chan Kim and
Rene Mauborgne

Quiz - 4

23

30.03.16

Client-consultant
relationships - Issues

2 and
3

Material will
be provided

31.03.16

Power, Politics and

2 and
3

Material will
be provided

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Organization
Development

25

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Revision

ASSESSMENT RUBRICS
Case Discussion
Criteria

Meets the
Standard

Partly
Meets
Standard

Does Not
meet
standard

Weights

Listening,
questioning
and
discussing

Student
listens,
questions,
discusses
points and
helps direct
group

Student
remains
quiet,
inattentive.
Does not
contribute
to class
discussions

Student
actively
disrupts
classes by
talking/distrac
ting neighbors

10

Preparation

Student has
come
prepared

Student is
rarely/
somewhat

Student is
never
prepared with

10

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with the
required
reading
materials,
written
documents
etc.

prepared
with class
reading
materials,
written
documents

the required
class
materials

Student
takes active
role in
group work,
encourages
and works
positively
with others

Student
does not
take an
active role
in group
work.

Student is
disruptive of
groups often
causes
conflicts.

Total

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Quiz
Criteria

Meets the
Standard

Partly Meets
Standard

Does Not
meet
standard

Weights

Conceptu
al clarity

Student has
understood the
concept

Has some
difficulty in
following the
concept

Poor
understanding
of the concept

Analytical
ability

Students can
answer all
questions posed
and apply

Students are
able to answer
only some of
the questions
posed

Students are
unable to
handle any
question

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on

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Student has
come prepared
with the
required
reading
materials,
written
documents etc.

Total

Mutharasi P
Signature of Faculty-in-charge
Principal

Student is
rarely/
somewhat
prepared with
class reading
materials,
written
documents

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Student is
never prepared
with the
required class
materials

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Dr. M. Selvalakshmi
Signature of