Complete Syllabus of Organizational Development and Change | MGT 685 | MBS 4th semester

Credits: 3

Lecture Hours: 48

Course objectives:

The course orients the students with the various tools and techniques for Organizational Development. This course in organizational development is framed to help the students to learn the concepts related to organizational development so as to understand how a successful Business are framed at different levels of Management for organizational success and smooth functioning of an organization in today’s dynamic environment.

Course Description:

Organization development is a system wide application of behavioral science to the planned development, improvement, and reinforcement of the strategies, structures, and processes that lead to organization effectiveness. This course contains introduction to organizational development, organizational development interventions, designing organizational structures, key issues in organizational development.

Course Details:

Part I: Organization Change

Unit 1: Organization change and its models LH 10

Concept of change, importance and imperatives of change, forces of change, determinants of organizational change, types of change, organizational culture and dealing with change and models of change: system model, force field analysis, continuous change process model and organizational growth model. Case discussion

Unit 2: Change and its impact LH 6

Change and people, reaction of people to change, resistance to change, overcoming resistance to change and change and a manager.

Unit 3: A systematic approach to making change LH 6

Diagnosing organizations, Effective change management, factors in effective change management, systematic approach and key to mastering change.

Part II: Organization Development

Unit 4: Foundations of Organization Development LH 10

Defining OD, characteristics of OD, value, Assumptions and beliefs in OD, Models and theories of planned change: participation and empowerment, teams and teamwork, action reach: process and approach. Case discussion

Unit 5: OD interventions LH 10

Team interventions: strategic use of organization, broad team building, formal group diagnostic meeting, process consultation

Intergroup and third party peacemaking interventions: Third party peacemaking interventions, organizational mirror interventions and partnering

Structural interventions: work redesign, MBO and appraisal, quality circle, quality of work life projects, and parallel learning structure.

Training: T-group, sensitivity training, behavioral modeling, life and career planning and coaching and mentoring.

Comprehensive interventions: Strategic management activities, real time strategic change, stream analysis, survey feedback, grid organization development, learning organization, reengineering and trans-organizational development.

Unit 6: Emerging issues in organizational development and change LH 6

System ramification, Power, politics and OD, power politics and planned change, changing environment and OD, research in OD, ethics in OD and the future of OD. Issues of organizational change and development in Nepalese context. Case discussion

References:

Wendell L. FrenchCecil H. Bell, Jr., & Veena Vohra ( 2013). Organization Development,

Pearson Prentice Hall, India.Thomas G. Cummings & Cristopher G. Worley ( 2008).

Organization Development and Change, South Western College Publications.

Kavita Singh ( 2010). Organization Change and Development,2nd ed. Excel Book, India.