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Level 6 Diploma in Business Management

Leading Sustainable Organisational Change

BM605 · Sustainable Business Practices — Week 10 of 16

CourseBM605
Week10 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Leading Sustainable Organisational Change

  1. Kotter's 8-step change model for sustainability
  2. Overcoming cultural inertia
  3. Green employee engagement and training
  4. Executive leadership and accountability
  5. Stanford Webinar: How to Build a Sustainable Organization
  6. Kotter's 8-Step Change Model Explained

What you will be able to do

  • 3.2 Determine change required within business organisations to meet a sustainability agenda.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: determine change required within business organisations to meet a sustainability agenda.

Study materials

Videos

  • Stanford Webinar: How to Build a Sustainable Organization · YouTube · Stanford Online · 52 min · for registered students
  • Kotter's 8-Step Change Model Explained · YouTube · EPM · 10 min · for registered students
  • How to Be Effective Leaders in the Context of Organisational Change | LSE Festival Skills · YouTube · LSE · 60 min · for registered students
  • How failure to lead second order change causes organisational paralysis · YouTube · The Open University Business School · 22 min · for registered students
  • Sustainable Leadership: How to put people at the heart of the green economy · YouTube · The Open University Business School · 10 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Guide to Corporate Sustainability: Shaping a Sustainable Future (UN Global Compact, 2014) · PDF · Un, guidance; 48 pages · for registered students
  • Principles of Management, ch. 10.2–10.3: Organisational change and managing change · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 278–298 · for registered students
  • Leading Large Scale Change: a practical guide (NHS England, 2018) · PDF · Other, guidance; 123 pages · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Global Sustainability Agendas and National Implementation
  • Week 2: Forces for Change in the Sustainable Macro-Environment
  • Week 3: Impact of Contemporary Sustainability Challenges
  • Week 4: Scoping the Sustainable Enterprise
  • Week 5: Restructuring Organisations for Sustainability
  • Week 6: Strategic Objectives and Corporate Purpose
  • Week 7: The Triple Bottom Line Framework
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Implementing and Measuring the Triple Bottom Line
  • Week 10: Leading Sustainable Organisational Change
  • Week 11: Sustainable Strategic Business Planning
  • Week 12: Applying Sustainable Business Practices in practice: case s…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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