Leadership for Change
PostgraduateTAS-EDP7162025
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 13 July 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Price from
- $2,440
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Leadership for Change
About this subject
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the nature of, and challenges of change in complex organisations today and how leaders might respond to such changes.
- Critically examine these challenges through the analysis, synthesis and evaluation of relevant literature.
- Apply new knowledge and understanding in a critically analytical way to practice.
- Critically reflect upon and evaluate leadership of organisational change in practice.
- Module 1: Change in Organisations, Theories and Models
- Individuals and change
- Group change
- Organisational change
- Module 2: Leading and Managing Change in Organisations
- Leading and managing differences
- Leadership and the change agent
- Review
- Module 3: Issues and Challenges in Managing Change
- Internal and external issues/challenges in the 21st Century
- Ethics and change
- Resistance and change
- Communication and change
- Module 4: Globalisation and change
- Globalisation and culture change
- Leading change in "uncertain times and places"
- Review
Organisations everywhere now operate in an environment of rapid, on-going and disruptive change. Leaders play a key role managing such change, which can include system-wide and local reforms, restructuring and innovations. Often, many planned changes are not implemented in practice as originally conceived. This subject examines some of the forces of change and for change in society today, focusing in particular on both barriers and facilitators. Students will develop deeper understandings of change processes, appreciate the complexities of these processes and identify some strategies to successfully lead change.
- Critical Reflection (40%)
- Analytical Essay (60%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Elective
- TAS-EDN-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate in Education
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching arrangements: Weekly online lectures (1 hour), online workshops x7 (1.5 hours), independent learning (7 hours) EDP716 provides opportunities for both synchronous (i.e., access to pre-recorded lectures, set discussion questions) and asynchronous learning (i.e., online zoom sessions/ tutorials) opportunities.
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Certificate in Education
PostgraduateTAS-EDN-GCE