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MGF3621: Organisational Change

Week 3:OD, Change and Management

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Your Tutor (me)

Nathan Eva

– nathan.eva@monash.edu– 9903 4065– Building N Level 5 Room 14– www.slideshare.net/nathaneva

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Last Week

• Lewin’s 3 Phase Model• Big three Model

– Movement– Change– Roles in the Change Process

• Structural elements supporting CSR• CSR in general

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Assignment 1

•Individual Essay•Due week 8 on the Monday 5pm - Moodle•Worth 30%•3,000 words•7 Journal Articles •APA Referencing

•TAKE A POSITION

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Assignment 2

•Group Presentation•Weeks 10 and 11 •Worth 25%•30 minute presentation plus question time•1,500 – 2,000 word write up plus slides•Interventions in Chapter 7 and Chapter 8

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Groups

•Who doesn’t have a group?

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Lifeline Exercise

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Lifeline Exercise

•Ok….not quite like that •Draw a timeline of your life: past, present and future•(you can be creative e.g. rivers, yellow brick roads)•Draw key descriptors of change

– Moving house– School – University– Travel

– Jobs– Relationships– Things you like / dislike– Family

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Lifeline Exercise

•X – initiated by someone or something else•I – initiated by you•=) - a good event when it happened•=( a bad event when it happened

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Lifeline Exercise

•Form new, more exciting groups

•Compare similarities and differences in your timelines

•Are your pasts different but futures the same?

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Lifeline Exercise

•How can consultants use lifelines in practice?

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Lifeline Exercise

•How can consultants use lifelines in practice?– Understanding where the organisation has been– Plans for the future– Key stumbling blocks in previous change– How we have overcome change in the past

– Diversity awareness– Career planning– Ice breaker

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Managing Transitions

•Have a read

•Thoughts?

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Week 3 Lecture

• Metaphors• Understand them and how they work in org change

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Next Week

• It shall be….entertaining

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Week 3 Readings

• Oswick and Montgomery • Akin and Montgomery