People, culture and change management

This unit explores contemporary practice of people and culture in light of an increasingly digital and dynamic business environment. It introduces the key concepts, frameworks, and theoretical foundations necessary for leaders without HRM backgrounds to work effectively with the organisation’s people and culture professionals. Specifically, the unit highlights the application of seemingly paradoxical movements – one ‘humanistic’ and the other ‘digital’ – to drive organisational change. To deepen and extend understanding, the unit introduces a series of forces - technological, social, environmental, economic, and geopolitical – which will shape the practice of people and culture management in the future.

Informed with foundational knowledge and enlightened by future directions, this unit prepares leaders to understand the organisation’s people and culture function in light of contributions it should make to strategic performance, today and in the future. As one of six operational knowledge units, it also provides ample opportunity to apply your learning to professional practice and build a portfolio of projects relevant to your career.