What Will You Learn?

• "The main objective of this unit is to enable learners to understand, plan and achieve organisational
• change successfully. The received wisdom in much of the business world is that change has to be fast,
• large-scale and transformational if organisations are to survive. However, there is also evidence that
• many successful organisations take a much slower and more cautious approach to change. In addition,
• the failure rate of change initiatives is claimed to be around 70%. It follows from this that managing
• organisational change is one of the most problematic tasks leaders undertake, and that the ability to
• do so is a key attribute of successful leaders and successfulorganisations.
• This unit will examine the changing nature of organisations and the challenges they face. It will
• examine the main approaches to managing change and show how these relate to the types of change
• that organisations are undertaking, especially in terms of individual, group and organisational
• behaviour."