MGT 444 Change Management

3 Credit(s)

Change, both planned and reactive, is a constant in business and life. Managers’ effectiveness with managing change directly correlates with organizational performance. Managers must identify, implement and lead an organization’s changes in mission, vision, organizational values, culture, strategy, resources and performance standards. Managers must also account for external situational characteristics when managing internal change. The course topics include managerial skills specific to managing change, types of change and their respective causes, barriers to change, implementing change, strategies for communicating change, and sustaining change.
Prerequisites: MGT 332, Senior status.