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Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

Structural determinants and change agent attributes

SMP802 · Managing Strategic Change — Week 2 of 16

CourseSMP802
Week2 of 16
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This week’s topics

Structural determinants and change agent attributes

  1. Mechanistic vs. organic structures
  2. Distributed leadership architectures
  3. Emotional intelligence and reflexivity
  4. Contextual ambidexterity
  5. Lecture 12: ORGANIZATION AND ORGANIZATION THEORY: THE DETERMINANTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE
  6. Insightful Leader Live: Building Your Emotional Intelligence in Times of Change and Uncertainty
  7. The journey from reflection towards reflexivity

What you will be able to do

  • 1.2 Critically evaluate how organisational structure and leadership influences the characteristics and attributes of change agents.
  • 1.3 Critically evaluate the challenge of change and the effectiveness of change agents.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically evaluate how organisational structure and leadership influences the characteristics and attributes of change agents.

Study materials

Videos

  • Insightful Leader Live: Building Your Emotional Intelligence in Times of Change and Uncertainty · YouTube · Kellogg School of Management · 60 min · for registered students
  • The journey from reflection towards reflexivity · YouTube · Siobhan Maclean · 18 min · for registered students
  • The Art of Building Influence: Five Key Components of Emotional Intelligence · YouTube · eCornell · 43 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • MIT OpenCourseWare 15.320 Strategic Organizational Design (Spring 2011) · Reading · MIT OpenCourseWare, course · for registered students
  • Leader emotional intelligence, leadership styles, commitment and trust on job performance · Reading · Reading, article · 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: 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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