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Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

Risk governance and stakeholder dynamics

SMP802 · Managing Strategic Change — Week 5 of 16

CourseSMP802
Week5 of 16
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This week’s topics

Risk governance and stakeholder dynamics

  1. Change risk profiling matrices
  2. Mitchell stakeholder salience model
  3. Cognitive and political resistance vectors
  4. Power-interest dynamics
  5. Lecture 14 : Resistance to Change
  6. A critical review of resistance to change in organisations

What you will be able to do

  • 3.1 Assess possible risks associated with an organisation's change process.
  • 3.2 Apply a stakeholder analysis to understand possible resistance to change.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: assess possible risks associated with an organisation's change process.

Study materials

Videos

  • A critical review of resistance to change in organisations · YouTube · Galton College · 19 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • The Orange Book: Management of Risk – Principles and Concepts (HM Treasury, 2023) · PDF · GOV.UK, guidance; 64 pages · for registered students
  • Organizational Behavior, ch. 13: Organizational Power and Politics · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 379–406 · for registered students
  • Organizational Behavior, ch. 14: Organizational Structure and Change · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 593–639 · 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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