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Strategic Change Management
Dr Vishnu Renjith. PhD, MSN, RN, FRSPH
Lecturer / Programme Director, School of Nursing & Midwifery
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, 123 St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2, Ireland
Email: [email protected]
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By the end of the lecture, you will be able to
• Define strategic change management
• Describe John Kotter’s Change Model
• Explain Kurt Lewin’s Change Model
• Differentiate between models for managing the change process
Objectives
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• Change is necessary for organizations to continue to thrive, meet and
exceed the competition of industry competitors.
• Every day, companies face changes, such as launching a new product,
restructuring the organization and so on.
• What if companies made changes without making plans in a meticulous
way? The result would be chaos!
Introduction
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• Strategic change management, is a process of managing change within an
organization or company.
• Strategic change management allows companies to carefully and
responsibly make needed changes.
Strategic change management
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• Strategic change management is the process of managing change in a
structured, thoughtful way in order to meet organizational goals, objectives,
and missions.
Strategic change management
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• John Kotter’s Change Model
• Kurt Lewin’s Change Model
Models of Strategic Change Management
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Model advocates that companies lead
employees through eight critical steps
John Kotter’s Change Model
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1 Establishing a sense of urgency
2 Creating a guiding coalition
3 Developing both vision and strategy
4 Communicating that vision to employees
5 Empowering employees
6 Generating short-term wins
7 Consolidating what is learned from the current change
8 Anchoring the change in the organization
John Kotter’s Change Model
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• Kurt Lewin’s Change Model.
• Better for changes that are simpler in nature.
• Linear understanding of change where three stages are necessary:
unfreezing, changing, and refreezing.
Kurt Lewin’s Change Model.
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Video Courtesy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhrbO7lrHro
Kurt Lewin’s Change Model.
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Kurt Lewin’s Change Model.
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Comparison between John Kotter’s Change Model and
Kurt Lewin’s Change Model
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• Strategic change management is the process of managing change in a
structured, thoughtful way in order to meet organizational goals, objectives,
and missions.
• Two models
• John Kotter’s Change Model
• Kurt Lewin’s Change Model.
Summary
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• In order to change behavior, we have to convince employees that change is
needed, help them with the new way of doings things, and reward behavior
that supports change.
• Kotter’s model – Eight steps
• Lewin’s model – Three steps
• Both models are helpful guides to managers or company owners looking to
implement change.
Summary
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• What Is Strategic Change Management? – Definition, Models & Examples. (2015,
August 7). Retrieved from https://study.com/academy/lesson/what-strategic-changemanagement-definition-models-examples.html.
• White, A. (2014). In focus: Implementing change in the perioperative setting. AORN
journal, 99(2), C7.
• Levasseur, R. E. (2001). People skills: Change management tools – lewin’s change
model. Interfaces, 31(4), 71-73. Retrieved from https://search-proquestcom.ezproxy.rcsi-mub.com/scholarly-journals/people-skills-change-managementtools-lewins/docview/217124358/se-2?accountid=51580
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