3.10 Managing strategic change Flashcards
Causes of and pressures for change
internal change
external change
incremental change
disruptive change
Lewin’s force field analysis.
The value of change
The value of a flexible organisation
restructuring
delayering
flexible employment contracts
organic structures v mechanistic
knowledge and information management.
The value of managing information and knowledge
Barriers to change
Kotter and Schlesinger’s four reasons for resistance to change
How to overcome barriers to change
Kotter and Schlesinger’s six ways of overcoming resistance to change
The importance of organisational culture
Handy’s task culture, role culture, power culture and person culture
Hofstede’s national cultures.
The influences on organisational culture
The reasons for and problems of changing organisational culture
How to implement strategy effectively
The value of leadership in strategic implementation
The value of communications in strategic implementation
The value of communications in strategic implementation
The importance of organisational structure in strategic implementation
Organisational structures to include: functional, product based, regional and matrix structure.
The value of network analysis in strategic implementation
Network analysis to include:
understanding and interpreting network diagrams
amendment of network diagrams
identifying the critical path and total float
Network analysis to include:
understanding and interpreting network diagrams
amendment of network diagrams
identifying the critical path and total float
Difficulties of strategic decision making and implementing strategy
Planned v emergent strategy
Reasons for strategic drift
The possible effect of the divorce between ownership and control
The effect of the divorce between ownership and control to include corporate governance.
Evaluating strategic performance
The value of strategic planning
The value of contingency planning
