Management of Change: Organisation Development and Design

The workplace is changing. It is becoming increasingly digitalized. You and your organization must have the tools skills and understanding necessary to manage and lead organizational development.

An introduction to organisational development, the impact of AI (AI), and how it affects you will help you design and implement a people-centred strategy to change.

As AI automation and digitalisation transform the way we work, as well as how our workforce looks, organisations are under tremendous pressure to keep up with the competition.

This microcredential will help you develop analytical skills that will allow you to harness the potential of technology in an era where digital disruption continues to transform industries.

You will learn how important it is to be active in reorganizing and instilling resilience, agility and cohesion in your team and wider organization.

Experts from The Open University will discuss current work practices and how AI in a digital age will require us adapt to new ways to work.

We'll discuss the impact of radical change on organizations such as the COVID-19 Pandemic, and how to minimize negative consequences.

Additionally, you will gain a deeper understanding of the relationships between organisational change and organisational development and efficiency from both an individual and broader strategic perspective.

You can develop your social intelligence, cognitive and emotional intelligence by using a human-centred design approach.

Design thinking is a method for solving creative problems. This requires that you adopt a human-centred approach for innovation to transform how you create products, services, and organisations.

You'll be able to benefit from real-world experiences of professionals in a variety of sectors and disciplines who have successfully adopted holistic design thinking principles to understand the needs and wants of customers and users.

The newly created Design Thinking Toolkit will be used throughout the course to help you develop and implement practical solutions to issues and problems. This will allow your organization to withstand periods of major change and digital disruption.