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UMODML-15-3
Seminar schedule
Activity Timings
(approx.)
1. Reflecting 40 mins
Presentation, peer feedback, discussion, and tutor
summary
2. Analysing 40 mins
Mini case study analysis beginning with ‘what?’, ‘why?’,
‘how?’, and ‘what else?’ questions
3. Looking ahead 20 mins
Small group formation and future planning
Activity 1 | Reflecting
First attempts a critical reflection – one of three activities directly feeding into
your final assessment.
Critical reflection
We are going to share our critical reflections with a partner.
Developing your
skills of
critical reflection
Concluding Analysing,
• What has been the key
learning from your and interpreting, • This is your opportunity to
try to make sense of what
reflection planning evaluating happened
• Does it suggest future
• Compare – contrast –
actions or lead to new
connect
practice
• How can academic ideas
help?
You were asked to . . .
Write a 100-word reflection on your own experiences of organisational change.
In this reflection, you were the case study, meaning you were already some sort of expert.
• But, how many questions did you ask of yourself?
• And, did your reflection have any impact on how you might think or act in the future?
Mini case study analysis beginning with ‘what?’, ‘why?’, ‘how?’, and ‘what else?’
questions exploring the interrelationship of theory and practice.
Analysis using Four Question Method
We are going to trial this Four Question Method with a mini case study.
• Looking at real cases is a way of understanding the interrelationship of the theory and
practice of organisational change
• Our job is to learn and reflect on what has happened, why and what the lessons are, what to
do differently.
• How will the Four Question Method help you?
1. What happened?
2. Why was this important?
• What are the facts of the
• Incorporate your own
case – how can you
ideas and insights within
evidence them?
the facts
• Try to get a sense of the
• Try to interpret what
most important thing/s
• Ask yourself if others
Describe Analyse thing/s happened
would think differently the issue the issue • Ask yourself if others
would think differently