Course syllabus - Managing industrial change

Objectives

The course aims to develop a deeper understanding of management of industrial change processes and to increase the students' theoretical and practical knowledge on the field of change management.

Learning outcomes

After completing the course the student should be able to: 

1. Describe and critically discuss basic concepts of industrial change work with particular focus on management. 
2. Describe and critically discuss industrial change work and the management of industrial transformation pressure in a historical perspective focusing on factors such as global warming, globalization and digitalization. 
3. Critically discuss how the concept of leadership has changed and the implications thereof. 
4. Plan change work. 
5. Identify and discuss opportunities and limitations with the theoretical concepts and models in the change work/change management literature. 
6. Discuss and problematize change management and leadership as practices. 
7. Apply the learnings from the course by using a number of skills, which are specified in the course description / study guide.

Course content

The content of the course is summarized as follows: 

- What is change? 
- Basic terminology 
-  What needs drive change work? 
- Change work in perspective - past, present, future 
- Models of change - the individual, the group, the organization 
-  How organizational change can be analyzed 
-  What is leadership and why is it important to discuss leadership? 
- Theoretical models for leadership 
- Problematizing leadership as practice 
-  Change management in practice - planning, organizing, leading, managing and finalizing 
-  Problematizing change management as practice

Tuition

Lectures (digital and in lecture hall), flipped classroom exercises, seminars, project work

Specific requirements

120 credits within the MSc programme in Industrial Economics, which includes 30 credits within the subject "industrial engineering and management", or comparable. In addition Swedish course B/Swedish course 3 and English course A/English course 6 are required. For courses given entirely in English exemption is made from the requirement in Swedish course B/Swedish course 3.

Examination

Project (PRO1), 2.5 hp, grades Fail (U) or Pass (G) (learning outcomes 4-5) 
Seminar (SEM1), 2,5 hp, grades Fail (U) or Pass (G) (learning outcome 1, 3 & 6) 
Home examination (HEM1), 2,5 hp, grade Excellent (A), Very good (B), Good (C), Satisfactory (D), Sufficient (E), Insufficient, complementary work possible (Fx), Insufficient (F) (learning outcomes 1, 2 & 6)

A student who has a certificate from MDU regarding a disability has the opportunity to submit a request for supportive measures during written examinations or other forms of examination, in accordance with the Rules and Regulations for Examinations at First-cycle and Second-cycle Level at Mälardalen University (2020/1655). It is the examiner who takes decisions on any supportive measures, based on what kind of certificate is issued, and in that case which measures are to be applied.

Suspicions of attempting to deceive in examinations (cheating) are reported to the Vice-Chancellor, in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance, and are examined by the University’s Disciplinary Board. If the Disciplinary Board considers the student to be guilty of a disciplinary offence, the Board will take a decision on disciplinary action, which will be a warning or suspension.

Grade

Excellent, Very good, Good, Satisfactory, Sufficient, Insufficient, complementary work possible, Insufficient