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Level 8 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement

SMP802 · Managing Strategic Change — Week 14 of 16

CourseSMP802
Week14 of 16
SemesterI
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This week’s topics

Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement

  1. Drafting against the criteria
  2. Tutor and peer feedback
  3. Improving the final submission
  4. Fastest Way To Improve Your Academic Writing (PEER SYSTEM)

What you will be able to do

  • 1.1 Critically evaluate change theories and analyse the relationship between leadership and change agents.
  • 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.
  • 2.1 Assess and select relevant theories and tools and techniques to implement and manage change.
  • 2.2 Develop a plan to implement a change in an organisation.
  • 2.3 Develop measures to monitor and evaluate progress of the change plan.
  • 3.1 Assess possible risks associated with an organisation's change process.
  • 3.2 Apply a stakeholder analysis to understand possible resistance to change.
  • 3.3 Critically appraise relevant strategies to manage resistance to change in organisations.
  • 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.
  • 4.3 Critically appraise relevant strategies to manage resistance to change.
  • 5.1 Evaluate the role of the individual in the change management process.
  • 5.2 Apply change management in an organisational setting.
  • 5.3 Evaluate how to monitor the effect of the change management processes.

Activity

Start with this week’s video, then: Draft the assignment, get feedback and improve it before submission.

Study materials

Videos

  • Fastest Way To Improve Your Academic Writing (PEER SYSTEM) · YouTube · Prof. David Stuckler · 5 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • Writing Guide with Handbook, ch. 7.3: Criteria, evidence, evaluation · PDF · OpenStax, textbook chapter; pp. 214–216 · for registered students
  • Supporting learners' agentic engagement with feedback: a systematic review · PDF · Reading, article · 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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