1. MGF3621: Organisational Change
Week 3:
OD, Change and Management
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2. 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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3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. Groups
• Who doesn’t have a group?
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7. Lifeline Exercise
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8. 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 – Jobs
– School – Relationships
– University – Things you like / dislike
– Travel – Family
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9. 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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10. 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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11. Lifeline Exercise
• How can consultants use lifelines in practice?
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12. 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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13. Managing Transitions
• Have a read
• Thoughts?
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14. Week 3 Lecture
• Metaphors
• Understand them and how they work in org change
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15. Next Week
• It shall be….entertaining
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16. Week 3 Readings
• Oswick and Montgomery
• Akin and Montgomery
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