Qualifi Level 7 Unit 710: Organisational Change Strategies Assignment Brief 2026

Unit 710 Assignment Brief 

Aim

The main objective of this unit is to enable learners to understand, plan and achieve organisational change successfully. The received wisdom in much of the business world is that change has to be fast, large-scale and transformational if organisations are to survive. However, there is also evidence that many successful organisations take a much slower and more cautious approach to change. In addition, the failure rate of change initiatives is claimed to be around 70%. It follows from this that managing organisational change is one of the most problematic tasks leaders undertake, and that the ability to do so is a key attribute of successful leaders and successful organisations.

This unit will examine the changing nature of organisations and the challenges they face. It will examine the main approaches to managing change and show how these relate to the types of change that organisations are undertaking, especially in terms of individual, group and organisational behaviour

Learning Outcomes And Assessment Criteria

 Indicative Content

• Setting Scope and Boundaries
• Perspectives and relationships
• PSMs – problem structuring methods
• The importance of organisational change
• Change communications and communications strategies
• Organisational structures
• Organisational maturity and leadership styles
• Organisational change and the individual
• A 20 Year Look at Business and Organisational Change
• Organisational change and organisational theory
• Culture, Power, Politics and Change
• Approaches to organisational change – traditional models
• Change solutions v change options
• Change as an emergent, tropic, rhizomatic and spontaneous process
• The emergence and power of social media as a change process
• Supporting tools and techniques
• Organisational change and organisational choice
• Change in Practice – The Consultant’s View

Learners will further be introduced to, and encouraged to discuss, some of the management models, concepts and ideas that could be used to help them set departmental, project, team and their own objectives.

Core Texts 

• Planning and Managing Change Paperback – by Bill Mayon-White (Editor)
• Managing Change Paperback by Bill (Editor) Mabey Chr and Mayon-White (Author)

Suggested Resources 

• Burnes, B (2009) Managing Change (5th Edition). FT/Prentice Hall.
• Rosabeth Moss Kanter: pioneer of empowerment and change management
• Gary Hamel: the search for a new strategic platform
• Sumantra Ghoshal: professor of the Spring strategy
• Charles Handy: understanding the changing organisation
• Igor Ansoff: father of corporate strategy
• C K Prahalad: a new view of strategy
• Richard Tanner Pascale: change agility and complexity
• Kurt Lewin: change management and groupdynamics
• https://www.academia.edu/479771/Change_Management_The_Road_Ahead

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Cliff_Oswick/publications