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| Förändringsledning och ständig förbättring |
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| Syllabus adopted 2019-02-21 by Head of Programme (or corresponding) |
| Owner: MPQOM |
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7,5 Credits
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| Grading: TH - Five, Four, Three, Fail |
| Education cycle: Second-cycle |
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Major subject: Industrial Engineering and Management |
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Department: 45 - TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT AND ECONOMICS
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The course is full. For waiting list, please contact the director of studies: gelena@chalmers.se
Teaching language: English
Application code: 36118
Open for exchange students: Yes
Block schedule:
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Minimum participants: 10
Maximum participants: 70
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In programs
MPPEN PRODUCTION ENGINEERING, MSC PROGR, Year 2 (elective)
MPQOM QUALITY AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, MSC PROGR, Year 2 (elective)
MPQOM QUALITY AND OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT, MSC PROGR, Year 1 (compulsory elective)
Examiner:
Petra Bosch
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Eligibility:
In order to be eligible for a second cycle course the applicant needs to fulfil the general and specific entry requirements of the programme that owns the course. (If the second cycle course is owned by a first cycle programme, second cycle entry requirements apply.)
Exemption from the eligibility requirement:
Applicants enrolled in a programme at Chalmers where the course is included in the study programme are exempted from fulfilling these requirements.
Course specific prerequisites
Quality and Operations Management 15 ECTS. Other students will be accepted if there is room available. Admittance will be decided on a case-by-case basis. As a minimum, applicants should have taken courses within the fields of:
(i) business administration (at least 7,5 ECTS),
(ii) general/operations management (at least 7,5 ECTS)
Aim
The course participants will have knowledge of strategy and change theories and quality inspired improvement approaches and ethical conduct, and they develop an in-depth understanding of one more narrow area. They will also have an ability to critically view consultants packaging of change and improvement project offerings.
Learning outcomes (after completion of the course the student should be able to)
- define, describe and interrelate strategy and change theories
- define and describe quality inspired improvement approaches
- provide good examples on quality driven improvement and change processes and projects
- develop an sustainable and ethical understanding and approach to change
- in-depth understand one more narrow areas within the field change and improvement
- develop an ability to critically view consultants packaging of change and improvement project offerings.
Content
This course provides insights into strategy, change and improvement theories and practices primarily on the organizational level. The areas covered include theories on learning, leadership, change agents and resistances. Also aspects of ethics, sustainability and digitaliation in change processes are covered. All course participants study a common body of literature and in addition each student specializes in a more narrow area (term paper). The theoretical content of the course is discussed in the perspective of experiences from change projects in industry. A major part of the course is a group assignment where participants themselves choose an area to specialize in. The aim is to combine theories with practice by conducting a literature analysis accompanied by own data gathering from organizations and document the analysis in a term paper.
Organisation
The course consists of lectures, literature seminars, seminars with experienced change managers from industry, as well as authoring and presenting of a term paper.
Please, see the course website for latest information.
Literature
See course webpage
Examination including compulsory elements
The examination is based on a mid-term test and a term paper written in groups. Active participation in seminars, guest lectures and comments (orally and in writing) on another group's term paper can affect the final grading. The final grades are fail, 3, 4 or 5.
Please, see the course website for latest information