3.10 Managing strategic change

Question 1

Causes of and pressures for change

Question 2

internal change

Question 3

external change

Question 4

incremental change

Question 5

disruptive change

Question 6

Lewin’s force field analysis.

Question 7

The value of change

Question 8

The value of a flexible organisation

Question 9

restructuring

Question 10

delayering

Question 11

flexible employment contracts

Question 12

organic structures v mechanistic

Question 13

knowledge and information management.

Question 14

The value of managing information and knowledge

Question 15

Barriers to change

Question 16

Kotter and Schlesinger’s four reasons for resistance to change

Question 17

How to overcome barriers to change

Question 18

Kotter and Schlesinger’s six ways of overcoming resistance to change

Question 19

The importance of organisational culture

Question 20

Handy’s task culture, role culture, power culture and person culture

Question 21

Hofstede’s national cultures.

Question 22

The influences on organisational culture

Question 23

The reasons for and problems of changing organisational culture

Question 24

How to implement strategy effectively

Question 25

The value of leadership in strategic implementation

Question 26

The value of communications in strategic implementation

Question 27

The value of communications in strategic implementation

Question 28

The importance of organisational structure in strategic implementation

Question 29

Organisational structures to include: functional, product based, regional and matrix structure.

Question 30

The value of network analysis in strategic implementation

Question 31

Network analysis to include:

understanding and interpreting network diagrams
amendment of network diagrams
identifying the critical path and total float

Question 32

Network analysis to include:

understanding and interpreting network diagrams
amendment of network diagrams
identifying the critical path and total float

Question 33

Difficulties of strategic decision making and implementing strategy

Question 34

Planned v emergent strategy

Question 35

Reasons for strategic drift

Question 36

The possible effect of the divorce between ownership and control

Question 37

The effect of the divorce between ownership and control to include corporate governance.

Question 38

Evaluating strategic performance

Question 39

The value of strategic planning

Question 40

The value of contingency planning