Assignment Requirements

Unit title Leading strategic change in health and social care

Unit Objective
The ability to lead and manage sustainable strategic change is the defining characteristic of an effective senior manager in the unstable and unpredictable conditions in which health and social care organisations have to operate today. This unit builds on the Managing Your Enterprise unit and examines further the issues that determine successful adaptation and strategic change. The link between strategy and organisational change and the key role of culture change are explored, as are the ways in which leaders and managers can gain the commitment of professional staff and so ensure that the changes become embedded in the organisation.
The unit aims to enable managers to analyse critically the complexity of strategic change so as to help them explore and evaluate ways of successfully using tools and concepts to deliver effective and sustainable change. It will also provide them with an understanding of change as a complex and dynamic process to which prescriptive approaches cannot be readily applied.

Learning outcomes
1 Know how to diagnose the need for change in health and social care
2 Understand the role of the senior manager in health and social care
3 Understand how to reduce resistance to change in health and social care
4 Understand the implementation of strategic change
5 Understand the techniques for embedding change within an organisation

Assessment Questions:

Q1 – As a manager, you need to systematically analyse the context of change, Investigate the triggers for change in health and social care and Investigate the types of operational and strategic change (1:1, 1:2 & 1:3).

Q2 – As a manager, Systematically analyse the role of the manager in leading organisational change in health and social care, Investigate appropriate change management theories/models in given situations and Systematically analyse contingency approaches to leading and managing change (2:1. 2:2, 2:3)

Q3 – As a manager, Systematically analyse reasons for resisting change in health and social care and Critically evaluate different ways of limiting and overcoming resistance to change (3:1, 3:2)

Q4 – As a manager, Critically assess the impact of organisational culture on change, Critically assess the impact of stakeholders on the change process , Critically assess the impact of organisational politics on change and Systematically evaluate appropriate methods for ensuring the commitment of professional staff to strategic change (4:1, 4:2, 4:3, 4:4)

Q5 – As manager, Investigate techniques used to embed change in an organisation, Systematically analyse the strengths and weaknesses of different leadership strategies, Recommend with justification appropriate leadership strategies for different change scenarios and Illustrate how an organisation can retain the capacity for further change (5:1, 5:2, 5:3, 5:4)

Assessment
Students are assessed against the learning outcomes of the unit utilizing a range of assessment tools and methods.
You need to pass each question of the assessment before you can pass the whole unit of the course.
You must use Harvard Systems of references i.e. alphabetical order.