Organizational Change and Innovation Management
MGMT 5970
Fall Semester 2014

Class Days: Tuesdays & Thursdays Time: 12:30 - 1:45 a.m. Location: MLC 245 Professor Name: Dr. Bob Vandenberg Offices: 402 Brooks Hall Phone: Brooks Office: 542-3720

Office I don’t have set hours because honestly as the head of the Department of Hours: Management I’m in the office most days during normal business hours. Thus, please email me in advance as to when you’re coming by so that I put it in my calendar.

Hours: e-mail: rvandenb@uga.edu

Course Materials

Textbooks: Jick, T. D. & Peiperl, M. A. (2011). Managing change: Cases and concepts (3rd ed.). New York: McGraw-Hill Irwin Publishing (ISBN 978-0-07-310274-0).

Nameplates: PLEASE BRING YOUR NAMEPLATES EVERYDAY TO CLASS. THIS IS MY MEANS TO GET TO KNOW YOUR NAMES. Course Description

“Key concepts and theories in organizational change and development. The focus is on the student's development of diagnostic skills necessary for the identification of organizational problems and opportunities and the effective management of organizational change.”
Specifically, this course addresses the formal and informal structures within an organization from the perspective of bringing about change in those structures. We will start with a brief overview of change, and general intervention concepts. Using Jick and Peiperl’s outline, we will then successively discuss the change process in terms of the challenges of change, envisioning change, implementing change, the recipients of change, and the change agents. There are many subtopics embedded in each of the latter topics such as team building, large-group interventions, structural design, work design, employee involvement, compensation systems and