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Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

Cultural dynamics, power relations, and communication

SMP802 · Managing Strategic Change — Week 7 of 16

CourseSMP802
Week7 of 16
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This week’s topics

Cultural dynamics, power relations, and communication

  1. Schein cultural levels
  2. Johnson Cultural Web
  3. Power-dependency relations
  4. Multi-directional change communication architectures
  5. SBL Topic Explainer: Cultural Web
  6. Lecture 26 : Communication and Change

What you will be able to do

  • 4.1 Critically review the different organisational cultures and how that influences communications and power relations.
  • 4.2 Evaluate cultures influence on Strategy and change management.

Activity

Start with this week’s 2 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: critically review the different organisational cultures and how that influences communications and power relations.

Study materials

Videos

  • SBL Topic Explainer: Cultural Web · YouTube · ACCA Student Study Resources · 12 min · for registered students
  • The Power of Cultural Change: A 186 Year Old Turnaround Story • Damian Cronan • YOW! 2018 · YouTube · GOTO Conferences · 32 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Organizational Behavior, ch. 13: Organizational Power and Politics · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 379–406 · for registered students
  • Leading Large Scale Change: a practical guide (NHS England, 2018) · PDF · Other, guidance; 123 pages · for registered students
  • Principles of Management, ch. 12: Communication in Organizations · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 456–494 · 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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