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Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

Strategic mitigation of resistance

SMP802 · Managing Strategic Change — Week 6 of 16

CourseSMP802
Week6 of 16
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This week’s topics

Strategic mitigation of resistance

  1. Collaborative vs. directive interventions
  2. Psychological safety mechanisms
  3. Negotiation and co-optation frameworks
  4. Conflict transformation paradigms
  5. Lecture 15 : Managing Resistance
  6. Mod-01 Lec-24 Managing Conflict and Negotiation

What you will be able to do

  • 3.3 Critically appraise relevant strategies to manage resistance to change in organisations.
  • 4.3 Critically appraise relevant strategies to manage resistance to change.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically appraise relevant strategies to manage resistance to change in organisations.

Study materials

Videos

  • John Kotter - Resistance to Change · YouTube · Dr. John Kotter · 4 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Leading Large Scale Change: a practical guide (NHS England, 2018) · PDF · Other, guidance; 123 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
  • 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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