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VCR6000 Critical Reflection on and practice of Organizational Change Course description

Course name in Norwegian
Critical Reflection on and practice of Organizational Change
Study programme
Oslo Business School, Exchange Programme
Critical Reflection and practice of Organizational Change
Weight
10.0 ECTS
Year of study
2018/2019
Course history

Introduction

The objective of the course is to know about critical incidence-analysis and empowering processes in Organizations for people, relations and structures. The students will also be empowered to bring about such changes in one's own organization.

Students will learn how to critically evaluate an incidence and an organizational situation with a view to implement change, acquire the tools to initiate and facilitate it, and evaluate the process and outcome. This is relevant for both private and public organizations.

The course will focus on knowledge and skills for change and innovation in general and empowerment of bottom up changes in particular.

Required preliminary courses

No prerequisites

Learning outcomes

Knowledge

The student has knowledge of

  • Critical incidence analysis
  • Power issues on individual, relational, organizational and political levels
  • Understanding different organizational cultures
  • Organizational change
  • Methods and techniques for problem solving
  • Project & team phases and cycles
  • Team structures and team development (relations and tasks)
  • Action Learning
  • Communication & feedback
  • Relational competence

Skills

The student can

  • Apply critical incidence analysis on own practice
  • Assess the current state of oneself/ relationships/ groups/ organizations/ society
  • Project planning
  • Initiate the change process
  • Communicate and give feedback
  • Contribute to team building

General competence to

  • Applying critical incidence analysis as an ongoing process on own work within the organization related to change within the organization.
  • Assess the need for change.
  • Involve people in implementation of change.
  • Reflect and learn from changes

Teaching and learning methods

There will be four full days of meetings and four three-hour sessions, combining tuition, training and group work.

Course requirements

In this course the students will learn to see a broader perspective of the use of art, including its contemporary discourses. The course offers the possibility to delve deeper into one of three chosen areas of study through analyzing theory related to students’ own field of specialization. The course addresses a range of different societal areas. The three specific themes are interdisciplinary and will vary each year based on currents within society and the Arts and are chosen in advance by the course leaders.

The objective of the course is to broaden the students perspective on society, and how their own aesthical skills and knowledge can contribute to societal changes.

Assessment

Knowledge

The Students

  • have thorough knowledge of the current discourses and central theory of their chosen theme
  • have thorough knowledge of interdisciplinary themes and dialogues across the various aesthetic fields and in societal contexts relating to their chosen theme

Skills:

Students can:

  • be able to analyze, explore and discuss aesthetic practices on the basis of relevant theory and societal issues
  • use theory engaging in interdisciplinary dialogue, independently and/or together with others to develop new ideas and perspectives.
  • discuss how the aesthetic field can contribute to changes and developments in society
  • write an academic text on master level that apply the chosen theme to practices in the field of their specialization.

General competence:

Students can:

  • articulate relevant societal challenges and explore how aesthetic practice and theory address these challenges in different ways.
  • work together with students from different course specializations to develop new perspectives on societal challenges.

Permitted exam materials and equipment

The students are given lectures, groupwork and seminars based on different content concerning areas within the practical, aesthical and societal field. The course starts with a common lecture or workshop, before the students choose one of three given societal themes that they delve further into, that have their own set of seminars and lectures.

Examples of topics can be (but are not restricted to): diversity, post-colonialism, sustainability, technology, creative practice/design processes in democracy, learning, aesthetic theory in context with society, framing and performance theory in society. It is natural that the themes in the course should reflect the UN sustainable development goals.

This course is primarily taught in English and the texts/syllabus is in English.

Grading scale

The following work requirements are mandatory and must be approved to apply for the exam:

  • at least 80 % attendance at classes and seminars.

Examiners

The written examination is assessed by an internal and an external examiner.

Admission requirements

A written individual or pair assignment of 3000-4000 words.

If two students work together the assignement is 4000-5000 words.

If two students work together the assigment should also include a short formal statement of the cooperation (approx 150-300 words).

Exam can be written in English or Norwegian.