MI4015 Organizational Design, Change and Development Syllabus:

MI4015 Organizational Design, Change and Development Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

 To help the students to gain knowledge about the concepts of change management and to acquire the skills required to manage any change effectively
 To understand the concept and techniques of OD and to enable the skills for the application of OD in organizations.

UNIT I ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN

Organizational Design – Determinants – Components – Basic Challenges of design – Differentiation, Integration, Centralization, Decentralization, Standardization, Mutual adjustment -Mechanistic and Organic Structures- Technological and Environmental Impacts on Design-Importance of Design – Success and Failures in design.

UNIT II ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE

Meaning, Nature, Forces for change- change agents- Change process-Types and forms of change Models of change- Resistance to change – individual factors – organizational factors – techniques to overcome change- Change programs –job redesign.

UNIT III ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Introduction- evolution- basic values and assumptions- foundations of OD- Process of OD- managing the phases of OD- Organizational diagnosis-Process-stages- Techniques-Questionnaire, interview, workshop, task-force- collecting, analyzing- feedback of diagnostic information.

UNIT IV OD INTERVENTION

Human process interventions-Individual, group and inter-group human relations- structure and technological interventions- strategy interventions – sensitivity training – survey feedback, process consultation – team building – inter-group development.

UNIT V ORGANIZATIONAL EVOLUTION AND SUSTENANCE

Organizational life cycle – Models of transformation – Models of Organizational Decision making – Organizational Learning – Innovation, Intrapreneurship and Creativity-HR implications.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

COURSE OUTCOMES:

The student gets to learn about
1. The fundamentals of organizational design and structure
2. Change process, types, and models of change in organizations
3. The fundamentals of organizational development
4. Organizational development Interventions
5. Organizational evolution and sustenance

REFERENCES :

1. French & Bell: Organisational Development, McGraw-Hill, 2005
2. Wendell L. French, Cecil H. Bell, Jr, Veena Vohra – Organization Development : Behavioral Science Interventions for Organizational Improvement, Sixth Edition 2017
3. Rajiv Shaw: Surviving Tomorrow: Turnaround Strategies In Organisational Design And Development, Vikas Publishing House.
4. Thomas G. Cummings, Christopher G. Worley: Organisation Development And Change, Thomson Learning.
5. S. Ramnarayan, T. Venkateswara Rao, Kuldeep Singh: Organization Development: Interventions And Strategies, Sage Publications
6. Organization Development, behavioral science interventions for Organization Improvement, Wendell French, Cecil H.Bell, Veena, Jr, Pearson, PHI
7. Change & Knowledge Management-R.L. Nandeshwar, Bala Krishna Jayasimha, Excel Books, 1st Ed.
8. Management of Organizational Change – K Harigopal – Response BOOKS, 2nd editon,2006
9. Organizational, Design, and Change-Gareth R. Jones, 5th Edition, Pearson Education