Change Management & Organizational Development
The situation
Dutch employees face a rapidly changing corporate environment. Organizations experience the consequences of disruptive (digital) innovations in products, services and procedures. They are confronted with 'wicked problems and challenges'. Employees of Dutch organizations with a small home market operate in an increasingly globalized world in which their learning and achieving abilities are challenged more and more. Only by consistently and sustainably investing in people, as well as in innovative products and services, can organizations provide their employees with a workplace safeguarding continued good health and personal and professional development.
The challenge
Continued innovation is a condition for survival for any business, but it has a downside. Continuously forcing new developments demands sustained adaptability from staff. Transitions often miss their mark, because an organization can only process a limited amount of new initiatives, and secondly, is confronted with wicked problems and challenges. Management and staff may feel challenged, but also overwhelmed. To survive continual rounds of 'experiments', investing in the sustainable employability of staff is essential. How can we find a healthy balance between 'reinventing' an organization and building resilience within its staff?
The options
In our MBA module Change Management & Organizational Development, you will learn that organizational change needs a design-oriented approach. Targeted interventions are needed to achieve strategic goals that lead to better results. Human Resources Management (HRM) supports this approach by influencing people's values and behaviors, in order to improve results/profits.Human Resources Development (HRD) supports the design-oriented approach by improving the learning capacities of both employee and organization, guaranteeing employability now and in the future.
The study goals
After completion of Nyenrode's module Change Management & Organizational Development, you will be able to realize organizational transitions and developments within organizations. Additionally, you will have insight in and feel comfortable with the role of change agent. You can apply the academic knowledge and skills in your own organization immediately. Including sustainable improvement of people's learning and achieving abilities, and creating a safe working environment. As well as organizing constructive criticism by creating room for 'unsolicited' feedback. To this effect, there is ample attention in this module for building personal courage and dealing with power and politics.
Create your own MBA
We understand combining work, study and personal life can be quite a challenge. That is why we have developed a modular Executive MBA program. You create your own MBA and follow one or more modules or a complete MBA (containing a minimum of two specialization modules, six core modules, the international study trip and the MBA thesis).
Want to know more about the content of the module or our Modular Executive MBA program? Attend an experience session. For personalized advice please contact our program advisors via +31 346 291 001 or
mmba@nyenrode.nl.
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