Applications Invited for Master of Arts in Organisation Development, Change and Leadership) (Self Financed)

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About the Organization

The Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) was established in 1936 as the Sir Dorabji Tata Graduate School of Social Work. In 1944, it was renamed as the Tata Institute of Social Sciences. The year 1964 was an important landmark in the history of the Institute, when it was declared Deemed to be a University under Section 3 of the University Grants Commission Act (UGC), 1956. Since its inception, the Vision of the TISS has been to be an institution of excellence in higher education that continually responds to changing social realities through the development and application of knowledge, towards creating a people-centred, ecologically sustainable and just society that promotes and protects dignity, equality, social justice and human rights for all.

About the Programme

Organisations must adapt to change; otherwise, they can stagnate or perish. As changes occur in economies, markets, technology and society, there is a need for professionals who can enable organisations to anticipate and effectively respond to those changes.

As a field of study, Organisation Development (OD) is especially relevant in today’s fast-paced and drastic change era. Its community and social development origins provide a firm ground for the applied behavioural sciences. Applications in industry that have followed continue to be enriched by advances in social psychology, neurosciences, behavioural economics, and the art of facilitation, which explores and expands on the emergent knowledge from human efforts in institutions.

Characteristics of OD-based change include (and are not limited to):

• Changes to the structure, culture, strategy, and processes of an entire organisation, including the impact on individual jobs and roles.
• The application of behavioural science knowledge and practice to facilitate performance or internal transformation within an organisation.
• The improvement of organisational effectiveness by involving members of the organisation in understanding the challenge whilst enabling in them new skills, knowledge and ways of thinking and doing tasks in service of the organisation’s purpose and strategy.
• The promotion of high productivity, performance, quality products, financial performance and continuous improvement.
• The facilitation of change in a flexible, adaptive and humanistic, participative way.
• Sustainability, so consistent change in the right direction, continues beyond the life of the initial change initiative.

Advancing the science and practice of OD-based change is at the core of the curriculum. OD also operates from a particular set of practitioner values that shape how and why the work is done. Humanism as a value enables the valuing of human potential and, therefore, the importance of understanding the systemic challenges from a range of stakeholders and then engaging those stakeholders directly in shaping the change, partly so that change is well conceived of but also so that, through wider ownership, its chance of being shared and adopted are enhanced.

Science as a value involves enabling evidence-based employee actions. Employees, as change participants themselves, are involved in the processes of data gathering, meaning-making, and democratic participation in decisions that affect individuals, groups, and the organisation as a whole. Change agentry involves informed consent and actionability as values to enhance internalisation and commitment to sustainable organisational change.

Through this programme, we aim to develop innovative and influential change agents for various institutions. The programme enables students to understand how emerging industrial revolutions usher in systems of interacting components that impact each other in significant but often unseen ways. Crucially, students focus on self-development, which is, in turn, needed to accomplish the facilitator identity in organisational change processes. The learning methods in the programme include lectures, case discussions, simulations, role-plays, fieldwork, internships, service learning, and facilitated human interaction processes. Students engage in experiential learning opportunities and reflective spaces and interact with experienced professionals, faculty and alums. In this manner, students better understand their challenges and those of organisations in various contexts involving change. One of the differentiators of this program is the opportunity for students to immerse in a real-world consulting project that intends to take them through a complete OD cycle.

During our MA in ODCL, students learn how to appreciate and proceed with the process of OD-intensive organisational change, including:

• Understanding ‘organisation’ as an open system to infer organisational purpose and design linkages.
• Diagnosing issues, causes, and designing approaches to enable internal renewal of capabilities of client organisations.
• Evaluating and presenting options, developing interventions with clients and delivering them as change facilitators for sustainable change.
• Exhibiting leadership and innovation for organisational change processes to enable organisational effectiveness.

Our programme transforms students, both personally and professionally. Students gain a deeper understanding of themselves and behavioural sciences, organisation strategy, operations and the interplay of systems and people processes. Those passionate about making a difference through OD should consider applying to our MA in Organisation Development, Change and Leadership.

Eligibility

• Candidates should have successfully completed Bachelor's or Master's Degree of minimum of 3 or 4 years duration or its equivalent (under the 10+2+3 or 10+2+4 or 10+2+2+1 year bridge course pattern of study or any other pattern fulfilling the mandatory requirements of 15 years formal education) from a university recognized by the University Grants Commission (UGC) of India.
• At the time of applying candidates studying in 3-year degree programmes should have passed in all the subjects for the 1st to 4th semesters and candidates studying in 4-year degree programmes should have passed in all the subjects for the 1st to 6th semester.
• Until a candidate submits their degree certificate and final mark/grade sheet as evidence of having successfully completed the eligibility criteria by the given date, the admission offered will remain provisional
• Eligibility, determined on the basis of information provided in the application, will be used for the final selection process. If the information provided by a candidate is found to be incorrect or misleading at any point in time, their candidature/admission will be summarily cancelled. The Institute shall also reserve the right to take any legal action as deemed fit for any such act of misrepresentation or false declaration.

The candidate must have a minimum of 2 years (24 months) of full-time work experience after completing the graduation (as on May 1, 2025). After selection in the programme the candidate must produce :

• Authentic work experience certificate
• Pay slips, appointment letters, and relieving letters from the organisation
• Statements of current (business) accounts, Goods and Services Tax (GST) registration of the firm, and company registration certificate (for candidates having experience in Entrepreneurship or working in a Family Business.

The institute reserves the right to access the suitability of the candidate’s work experience for this course.

If at any point in the future the institute is convinced that the candidate/student has submitted false or misleading information at the time of admission, his/her admission will be cancelled with immediate effect.

How to Apply

Deadline: December 9,2024

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