A-level Business₇₁₃₂

Causes of and pressures for change

Types of change include:

• internal change
• external change
• incremental change
• disruptive change.

Managing change should include:

• Lewin’s force field analysis.

The value of change

The value of a flexible organisation

Flexible organisations include:

• restructuring
• delayering
• flexible employment contracts
• organic structures v mechanistic
• knowledge and information management.

The value of managing information and knowledge

Barriers to change

How to overcome barriers to change

The importance of organisational culture

Cultural models should include Handy’s task culture, role culture, power culture and person culture.

The influences on organisational culture

The reasons for and problems of changing organisational culture

How to implement strategy effectively

Implementing strategy effectively to include:

• the value of leadership in strategic implementation

• the value of communications in strategic implementation.

The importance of organisational structure in strategic implementation

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.

Difficulties of strategic decision making and implementing strategy

Planned v emergent strategy

Reasons for strategic drift

Evaluating strategic performance

The value of strategic planning

The value of contingency planning and crisis management