This assessment should:
Analyse the impact of different types of changes in management strategies.
Highlight the key processes of Human Resource Management.
Design a programme of change for a chosen organisation and produce a plan
for overcoming resistance to change, including an assessment of the culture
of the organisation and consideration of the structure.
Evaluate different leadership and management styles and identify the level of
control and power underpinning these.

Overview:
International student mobility will take at least five years to return to normal
levels in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, while East Asia will emerge as
a regional hub in the intervening period, a leading global higher education
scholar has predicted.
Simon Marginson, director of the Centre for Global Higher Education at
the University of Oxford, said that developing countries in South Asia and subSaharan Africa will bear the brunt of a coronavirus-induced recession and that
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“a temporary shrinkage of the global middle class” will have a significant knockon effect on international student flows to Western universities.
Professor Marginson also spoke about universities’ shift to online education
and said that universities in the northern hemisphere are “looking at a new
academic year that is predominantly or wholly online”.
“Realistically we are not going to see a return to face-to-face education in
September,” he said, adding that while online education would not replace faceto-face teaching in the long run in general, for “some institutions only online
provision is going to be viable for cost reasons in the longer term”.
Reference:
Bothwell, E., 2020. Coronavirus: Global Student Flows To Suffer ‘Massive Hit’ For
Years. [online] Times Higher Education (THE). Available at:
<https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/coronavirus-global-student-flowssuf fer-massive-hit-years> [Accessed 3 May 2020].
Task Requirement:
Produce a report on a UK Higher Education Institution. The report should:
1. Analyse the impact of change to a UK Higher Education Institution in
the above context:
a. Define change and discuss why change is needed in the above
context.
b. Analyse the drivers of change in the above context.
c. Analyse the resistance to change in the above context.
d. Analyse and evaluate different types of change (reactive, operational,
incremental, and strategic) that could be implemented by a UK Higher
Education Institution in the above context.
e. Discuss Hendy’s four types of organisational culture and state in
which organisational culture the change is easier to implement and
manage and in which culture the change is hard to implement and
manage.
2. Analyse the key process of Human Resource Management in
Managing change in the above context:
a. Training and Development, and recruitment to overcome challenges in
the above context.
b. Application of change management model(s) for managing change.
c. Develop a Stakeholder Engagement strategy to implement and
manage change.
d. Analyse the role of Trade Unions in managing and implementing
change.
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3. Evaluate the different leadership and management style and conclude
(provide strong reasoning) which style you think is most appropriate to
manage and implement change effectively.
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• You will be allowed to submit your assignment after the submission
deadline. Note, however, that usual penalties will apply unless you have
applied for and received concessions.
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