ORG455 Organizational change and learning (Spring 2025)
- ECTS Credits:
- 7.5
- Responsible department:
- School of Business and Law
- Course Leader:
- Anders Ragnar Örtenblad
- Lecture Semester:
- Spring
- Teaching language:
- Norwegian.
- Duration:
- ½ year
Table of contents
The course is connected to the following study programs
Teaching language
Learning outcomes
- Gain advanced knowledge about organizational theories, models and research that discuss relationships between organizational change, development/innovation, learning and management
- Use relevant organizational theory and research to analyze how processes and pressures of change and innovation pose specific challenges for concrete organizations
- Work in teams to learn and find solutions
- Become reflective practitioners capable of reflecting about their own learning process
Contents
This course aims to introduce and examine theories and research that discuss organizational change, development/innovation, learning and management/leadership. Throughout the course, students will enhance their collaborative skills by working in teams and they will strengthen their capacity to work as reflective practitioners by reflecting about their own learning process and enhancing their awareness about the role of learning arenas in developing and managing organizational change processes.
By working with a real-life case the course emphasizes how reflective practice may help improve current practice and insights into relations between organizational change and management.
Teaching and learning methods
Examinations
Student evaluation
Reduction of Credits
This course’s contents overlap with the following courses. A reduction of credits will occur if one of these courses is taken in addition:
| Course | Reduction of Credits |
|---|---|
| ORG443 – Learning and Innovation i Organizations. | 7.5 |