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Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

Foundations of strategic change and change agency

SMP802 · Managing Strategic Change — Week 1 of 16

CourseSMP802
Week1 of 16
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This week’s topics

Foundations of strategic change and change agency

  1. Lewin vs. emergent change models
  2. Teleological and dialectical change dynamics
  3. Kotter's 8-step framework
  4. Leadership-agent dialectics
  5. "How do leaders become ready for emergent change?" BMI Authors Dialogic OD Salon 2022 11 16
  6. Lecture 42: Managing Organizational Change- I
  7. Change Management vs. Change Leadership — What's the Difference?

What you will be able to do

  • 1.1 Critically evaluate change theories and analyse the relationship between leadership and change agents.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically evaluate change theories and analyse the relationship between leadership and change agents.

Study materials

Videos

  • "How do leaders become ready for emergent change?" BMI Authors Dialogic OD Salon 2022 11 16 · YouTube · Bushe-Marshak Institute · 62 min · for registered students
  • Change Management vs. Change Leadership — What's the Difference? · YouTube · Dr. John Kotter · 5 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Leading Large Scale Change: a practical guide (NHS England, 2018) · PDF · Other, guidance; 123 pages · for registered students
  • MIT OpenCourseWare 15.322 Leading Organizations II (Fall 2003) · Reading · MIT OpenCourseWare, course · 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
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Foundations of strategic change and change agency
  • Week 2: Structural determinants and change agent attributes
  • Week 3: Diagnosing change and selecting intervention frameworks
  • Week 4: Formulating strategic change implementation plans
  • Week 5: Risk governance and stakeholder dynamics
  • Week 6: Strategic mitigation of resistance
  • Week 7: Cultural dynamics, power relations, and communication
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Micro-foundations and individual agency in transition
  • Week 10: Applied change management in complex settings
  • Week 11: Monitoring, evaluation, and institutionalisation of change
  • Week 12: Applying Managing Strategic Change in practice: case studies
  • 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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