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Availability: Available from 1998.
Credit points: 12.5
Coordinator: To be announced.
Prerequisite: 615-255 (Organisational Processes)
Contact: One one hour lecture and one hour of seminar discussion per week.
Timetable: Double semester.
Objectives:
At the completion of this subject, students should:
- understand the relationship between information systems implementation and organisational change;
- be familiar with some of the techniques of organisational diagnosis and assessment;
- have explored the process of change in organisations, including resistance to change;
- understand the range of actions that can be taken to facilitate organisational change.
Content:
This subject explores the relationship between information systems implementation and organisational change, focusing on managing the change process. Topics may include techniques for organisational assessment and the role of sponsors, targets, change agents, and external parties such as consultants. The subject will be taught with a combination of lectures and tutorials. To allow significant individual and group project work, this subject is taken over a whole year.
Assessment:
End of year written examination of up to three hours; individual projects; group project. The project work is expected to take up to four hours per week. Weighting of the assessment components will be announced at the commencement of the subject.
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Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Science (Volume 4 page 201)
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
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