SEM 427 - Management Consulting: Organizational Change and Governance

Course Career Undergraduate
Units 3
Approved Hours 3-0-0
Fee index 6
Faculty Business
Department Strategy, Entreprenshp & Mgmt
Typically Offered either term

Description
This course equips students to address organizational effectiveness challenges, including governance design, change management, and organizational development. Students develop expertise in organizational assessment, diagnostic frameworks, governance structures, change implementation, and stakeholder alignment, with a specialized focus on entrepreneurial, privately held, and family enterprises where governance structures are emerging or evolving. The curriculum integrates organizational theory with practical consulting approaches for leadership transitions, succession planning, organizational design, and change readiness. Students apply consulting tools, including issue trees, stakeholder mapping, governance design frameworks, and change readiness assessments, to real organizational challenges. Through case studies and simulations, students learn to assess organizational effectiveness, design governance frameworks for scaling businesses, facilitate leadership transitions, manage change resistance and stakeholder dynamics, and build organizational capabilities for future transformation.