615-251 Organisational Analysis and Change

This subject is regarded as a non-science subject for students enrolled in the BSc, BASc and combined BSc courses.

Students cannot receive credit for both this subject and either 615-351 Organisational Analysis and Change (prior to 2004) or 325-304 Organisational Analysis.

Commerce degree students are not permitted to enrol in this subject, except BCom/BIS students, where this subject is a core requirement.

615-150 Organisational Processes.

At the completion of this subject, students should understand the relationship between information systems implementation and organisational change; be familiar with some key issues relevant to the analysis of organisations; have explored the process of change in organisations, including resistance to change; have understood the complexity of organisational change; and be familiar with some models of organisational change management.

At the completion of this subject students should have improved their problem-solving skills; improved their capacity to deal with complex issues; enhanced their case study skills; developed skills in team work as well as independent work; enhanced their ability to read professional texts; and improved their report writing ability.

A 2-hour end-of-semester written examination (50%); continuous assessment (50%) with an overall maximum length not exceeding 5000 words. The continuous assessment component is expected to take approximately six hours per week. To obtain a pass in this subject, students are required to pass the final examination, attend at least 80% of the tutorials and submit each piece of assessment.