Leading Change and Innovation

MGMT206 and MGMT207

MGMT315

Timetable Note

No face-to-face tutorials. Learning resources also available online on Learn. These include tutorials on how to do the individual and group assignments.

Course Coordinator / Lecturer

Venkataraman Nilakant

Assessment

There are four pieces of assessment for this course. All are case-based. One is an individual piece of assessment. This needs to be completed by yourself, without consulting anyone. The other three are group based assessments. You will be assigned to a group randomly in the beginning of the course. Group assessments need to be completed based on discussions in your group. Each group will submit only one completed output. Details can be found on Learn.

Holding of Student Work
For quality assurance purposes the School is required to hold on record a number of assessment pieces as examples of differing standards of work.  If you have any objections to the School holding your assessment for this purpose then email the course coordinator to ensure your assignment is not used for this purpose.

Grading
The marks for each piece of assessment may be standardized before a final grade is determined.

Special Consideration
Students may apply for special consideration if their performance in an assessment is affected by extenuating circumstances beyond their control.

Applications for special consideration should be submitted via the Examinations Office within five days of the assessment.

Where an extension may be granted for an assessment, this will be decided by direct application to the Course Co-ordinator and an application to the Examinations Office may not be required.

Special consideration is not available for the Individual Assignment.

Students prevented by extenuating circumstances from completing the course after the final date for withdrawing, may apply for special consideration for late discontinuation of the course. Applications must be submitted to the Examinations Office within five days of the end of the main examination period for the semester.

Late Assignments
Assignments submitted after the due date without an extension being granted by the Course Co-ordinator will have 10% of the mark deducted for every day or part day the assignment is late.  Assignments will not be accepted for marking if the assignment is submitted any later than 5 days after the due date.

The Learning Process
It is YOUR responsibility to learn the material for this course to the standard you set for yourself.  The resources outlined below will aid you in this process, but ultimately you will get out of this course what you put into it.

This course will use flipped classroom model of learning. You will view short video lectures on Learn, read the text associated with those lectures, and test your understanding through short tests (not assessed). The class room lectures will mainly focus on application of course ideas to real-life cases. Since the assessment also involves real-life cases, it is in your interest to attend the classes to learn how to analyse cases and present them.

Textbooks / Resources

Readings for the course are available for free on LEARN

Learning Resources
The material taught in this course comes primarily from the readings from two books on managing change by Nilakant & Ramnarayan.  These readings, which are on Learn, are required reading for the course and will be your primary resource for the theory of the subject.  Lectures will not cover everything that is in the readings, although all material in the readings and lectures will be examinable.

The course class time will primarily be going over the key ideas in the readings.  Not all key ideas may be covered. You are expected to read the appropriate reading BEFORE the class time.  This will be critical to your learning.

The library provides many different resources, including many other texts on change management. Remember when using these resources for your assignment, that full referencing is required.

This course uses Learn as a means of distributing lectures, notes, assignments and examples of test and examinations.  This system will also be used to submit all assessments and provide a means of giving feedback.

Course links

LEARN
Coversheets - Group and Individual

Notes

Class Representative
A class representative may be asked to volunteer in the first few weeks of class.   Any problems with the course can be raised with the class rep.  Their email can be found on Learn.  The class representative will take up any issues raised by class members with the lecturer concerned as they occur.

Departmental Academic Policies
The Department assumes that you have read this document.

You should also read the General Course and Examination Regulations

Dishonest Practice
The University of Canterbury considers cheating and plagiarism to be serious acts of dishonesty.  All assessed work must be your own individual work unless specifically stated otherwise in the assessment guidelines. Material quoted from any other source must be clearly acknowledged. You must not copy the work of another person (student or published work) in any assessment including examinations, tests and assignments. Any person, who is found to have copied someone else's work, or to have allowed their work to be copied, will receive a fail grade for that piece of assessment and may face disciplinary action which may lead to a fine, community service or exclusion from the university.

IMPORTANT: Where there are concerns regarding the authorship of written course work, a student can be required to provide a formal, oral explanation of the content of their work.

Indicative Fees

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.