Graduate Certificate in Change Management

Program Overview

Victoria University's Graduate Certificate in Change Management equips students with the knowledge and skills to navigate organizational change effectively. The program covers agile project management, organizational change, technological innovation, and managing complexity. Graduates are prepared for careers in change management, project management, business analysis, consulting, and human resources.

Program Outline

Outline:

The Graduate Certificate in Change Management program at Victoria University (VU) Online covers four core areas of change management:

• Agile Project and Change Management (BMO6000): This unit introduces students to the fundamentals of agile project management (APM) and the scrum methodology for managing change projects in dynamic settings.
Students will contrast agile and waterfall methodologies, learn where APM is most applicable, and assess how agile is leveraged to successfully implement projects on time with an explicit focus on stakeholder requirements. They will also consider alternative ways of framing change initiatives either as incremental or transformational events within an organization to foster new ways of thinking.
• Organizational Change Management (BMO6624): This unit develops contemporary understanding of organizational design, organizational change, and development through contextualization of common challenges for change in both traditional and new organizational forms.
Students are challenged through interrogation and critical reflection on practices and theories of critical and conventional theories and models of change. Students will advance their diagnostic skills, competencies, and processes in assessing the need for change, and the development, implementation, and evaluation of change strategies at all organizational levels. Solutions to complex change management problems will be derived in a socially and culturally responsible manner, where students will advocate and substantiate recommendations grounded in scholarly literature to demonstrate professional responsibility and accountability.
• Technological Change and Innovation (BMO7002): This unit highlights the importance of technological change and innovation within organizations as businesses struggle to achieve and maintain competitive advantage in a fast changing global market.
The speed of technological change has brought innovation and efficiency but has also created a challenge for many organizations that still grapple with its complexity. Often the relationship between technological change and organizational change is not comprehended which leads to significant innovations being resisted, becoming victim to competing ideas, or failing to be sustained. This unit will help students learn how new technologies are aligned and implemented within organizations to remain competitive. Using insights from case studies and real-life examples, students will be able to analyze problems and challenges relating to technological change and design solutions.
• Managing Change and Complexity (BMO7003): Prescriptions on "best" ways to change organizations are abundant.
Yet what most organizations experience when they attempt to change is not as straightforward as the prescriptions suggest. Change, whether internally generated or externally confronted, is not a neat and clearly marked journey from a present state to a desired state. The complexity that surrounds organizations is not in designing the change journey but in dealing with complex relations with human behavior. As such, the central debate in the field is, can employee behavior and attitude be "managed and controlled" during change implementation? This unit will focus on the debate and provide students with an opportunity to critically evaluate and articulate various models of change and help appreciate the complex and paradoxical nature of managing organizational change. Students will have an opportunity to learn from real-life case examples that will include both success and failure stories of managing change. Using insights from the case examples, students will be able to analyze problems and challenges relating to managing change in their own organization.

Careers:

Graduates of VU Online's Graduate Certificate in Change Management can pursue a diverse and rewarding career path both locally and overseas. Depending on their career goals and skill set, this program can open up numerous roles such as:

• Change Manager
• Project Manager
• Business Analyst
• Consultant
• Organizational Development Specialist
• Human Resources Manager