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Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

Micro-foundations and individual agency in transition

SMP802 · Managing Strategic Change — Week 9 of 16

CourseSMP802
Week9 of 16
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This week’s topics

Micro-foundations and individual agency in transition

  1. Psychological contract breach
  2. Change fatigue and coping mechanisms
  3. Bridges transition model
  4. Individual sensemaking and agentic capacity
  5. Prosci Change Saturation Model - Everything You Need to Know
  6. Lecture 43: Managing Organizational Change: II
  7. The Root Cause of Resistance During Change

What you will be able to do

  • 5.1 Evaluate the role of the individual in the change management process.
  • 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: evaluate the role of the individual in the change management process.

Study materials

Videos

  • Prosci Change Saturation Model - Everything You Need to Know · YouTube · Prosci · 5 min · for registered students
  • The Root Cause of Resistance During Change · YouTube · Prosci · 3 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Antecedents of Psychological Contract Breach: Job Demands, Job Resources, and Affect · Reading · Reading, article · 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. 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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