NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF MODERN LANGUAGES

FACULTY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES

COURSE OUTLINE

Class: BBA VI, VII, VIII

Course Title: Change Management
Course Code:
Credit Hours: 03
Course Instructor:

Pre-Requisites: Students must have taken Introduction to Human Resource Management course and must
have a clear understanding of basic HRM concepts.
Week # Lecture # TOPICS TO BE COVERED
1. Introduction to Change Management
1.
2. Theories of Org. Change
3. Types of Org. Change strategies
4. Case Study Discussion
5. Organizational Renewal and planned change
2. 6. Systems Approach
7. Contingency Approach & Future shock & change
8. Organizational Transformation & Development
9. Organization structure & change, forms of structures
3. 10. Virtual organization, futuristic models; factors determining change
11..Organization change & culture, cultural resistance to change
4.
12. Power tools, implementation issues

13..Organization change & HRM

5. 14. Issues relating to HR functions
15..Corporate, functional & business level strategies, portfolio strategy
6. 16. Strategy implementation, control & assessment
7. 17..Organization Development; history, role of consultant & interventions
 18..Revision of course
MID TERM EXAMS
8.

MID TERM BREAK

9.

19. Diagnosing organizations; open sytem model,

10.
20. Design components & output & Alignment
21. Diagnosing groups-inputs, design components & outputs
11.
22. Diagnosis of individual/jobs; inputs and design components

23. Work processes and management of change, ERP & CM

12. 24. Business Process Re-engineering, Knowledge process outsourcing
25. Role of IT in managing change, manufacturing and service sector
13. 26. Managing change; how to overcome resistance, developing political
support
23. Managing change in knowledge era
14.
24. knowledge dissemination & learning organizations
25. Presentation and evaluation of case studies

15.
26. Revision

16 END TERM EXAMS

The number of weeks given can vary as the above schedule is tentative. Also, the date of examination
may be shifted later or earlier.

REFERENCE BOOKS AND MATERIAL

1. Managing Change in Organizations By N. Sengupta, M.S. Bhattacharya & R. N. Sengupta

2. Organizational Development & Change By Dianne M. Wandell, Thomas G. Cummings &
Christopher G. Worley
3. Case studies as assigned during lectures

EVALUATION CRITERIA
Midterm 30%
End term 50%
Internal evaluation 20% (specify assignments, number of quizzes, course project or any other
activity on the basis of which evaluation will be done).

1. Group work = Every Week

2. Assignments = 05
3. Quizzes = 05
4. Project = 01