“Learning is about change. Strategic learning is about transformational change.” The workplace is where we spend most of our time. It is the place where we hope to apply our skills and knowledge to add value to our employer as well as our financial stability. Considering my experience in the workplace, and my position within a department that I consider to be vital in any organization, I chose to focus on my challenge within the formal workplace. I was part of the development department at a children’s museum. According to Wiley, strategic learning is about ideas, insights, leadership, divergent and the outside-in perspectives. (Pietersen, 2010, Strategic Learning)
To develop my challenge I considered the environment I was surrounded by, immediate access I had to information, previous discussions with my supervisor, and my previous knowledge of working in a similar environment, and future ideas. In my peripheral view, I had considered ideas, insights, leadership and different perspectives. However, I had failed to observe and include very important uncertainties. My failure to consider my network, my fit, and my time within this organization resulted in my
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As opposed to single and double loop learning, triple loop learning includes reflective position where actions and results are involved. The one and two loop models suggest a reframing of the same situation, while the changes in environment and results of my previous challenge have allowed me to reflect on my actions and reactions during my challenge in the workplace. An important part of the process is reflection on the assumptions. While I conceptualized my challenge I assumed many things in my workplace. This included the relevance of previous work experience, to my position, my supervisor’s vision and support as well as the organizational structure and culture. Specifically, I gave words more importance than
Prior to analyzing the characteristics, specifically the knowledge, skills, and abilities required by strategic leaders, this paper will briefly discuss the concept of strategic leadership and later explore those attributes that best characterize the s...
I am a strong believer that the primary focus of any senior member of staff should still focus on Learning and Teaching despite being involved with the intricacies of strategic management. In my own roles over the last nine years I have tried to keep that mantra at the front of my mind. A strong leader, I believe, should be able to move things forward rather than being wholly reactive in dealing with day-to-day processes. I would strive to be a transformational Assistant Headteacher, constantly looking forward and shaping the future of learning rather than being purely transactional. I am confident that it is this that has contributed to the raising of standards within my own curriculu...
When I think about managing organizational change; I think about everyone from the top-level down to employees doing the work. Organizational change is about adapting and revising business practices to make things perform better in the organization that will have a positive impact on the bottom line. Therefore, organizational change is all about changing and implementing changes in the management structure, business operations, and the company culture in a manner that it will reduce cost, minimize employee resistance, remain competitive for the future, but still deliver results today. It is like Charles Darwin’s quote “it is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive
“Change has a bad reputation in our society. But it isn’t all bad – not by any means. In fact, change is necessary in life – to keep us moving … to keep us growing … to keep us interested … Imagine life without change. It would be static … boring … dull.”
Along with the rapid development of economy and society, the companies have to own skills to adapt, cater, and transfer new knowledge, and try to modify their activities to reflect insights. Strategic management evolves
Armstrong ( 2010) defined Strategic Human Resource Management (SHRM) as “an approach to making decisions on the intentions and plans of the organisation in the shape of the policies, programmes and practices concerning the employment relationship, resourcing, learning and development, performance management , rewards and employee relationships,” ( p. 115). There is a paradigm shift from a functional role to a tactical one through the strategic management process. SHRM is very important to the effectiveness of my learning organisation because it ensures that the needs of the learning community are met and provides the opportunity for instructional leaders to “add value to the learning community” (Introduction to Human Resource Management, 2012, p.6) while achieving the goals and objectives of the institution.
Strategic Planning is looking at where you are now, knowing where you want to be in the future and planning the steps to get you there.
The Strengths and Limitations of a Rational, Strategic Approach to Organisational Change Introduction Following the brief introduction of a model-ideal conceptualisation of Organisational Goal-Directed-Activity, and the definition within the perspective defined by this model of such terms like 'rational (organisational) action system', 'strategy', and 'organisational change', the first part of this essay presents a non-evaluative summary of a selection of distinct approaches to organisational change. Various approaches to strategy are similarly addressed in an attempt to register and explore some of the links that have been identified by a number of authors between positions on strategy reviewed and corresponding approaches to organisational change. The second part, bypassing the rather common practice of partitioning the set of organisational change approaches into largely non-overlapping rational and nonrational, strategic and nonstrategic, subsets, identifies a number of distinct Rational and/or Strategic Modes, associates them with the approaches to organisational change reviewed in the first part, and attempts an integrated appraisal of the distinctive strengths and limitations such diverse Modes confer to the approaches to change that invoke and utilise them. 1. A Model-Ideal Conceptualisation of Organisational Goal-Directed-Activity, Rationality, Strategicality, and Organisational Change When planned and goal-directed, fully rational organisational action, like any other ideal form of goal-directed-action, relies on activity generated by the decomposition of a goal-structure, a term that has been defin... ...
Throughout the global economic environment the desire to out-perform the competition is always present. In every situation, the companies who do better are the ones with superior strategy (Rothaermel, 2013). Strategic management is therefore important in every company, no matter what industry or market they operate in; and as stated by M. Carpenter and G. Sanders, 2013, is described as "The process by which a firm manages the formulation and implementation of its strategy". Strategic management is a constant topic under discussion with different schools of theorists with different beliefs and attitudes which is described as "A tense array of disagreement" (Rees, 2012).
Strategic leadership is the process of using well considered tactics to communicate a vision for an organization or one of its parts. It is the bridge. Strategic leadership typically manages, motivates and persuades staff to share that same vision, and can be an important tool for implementing change or creating organizational structure within a business. (http://www.businessdictionary.com/definition/strategic-leadership.html#ixzz3xUIgXRwP).
Strategic planning has a focus on stabilizing the current environment, and it also support the organization's business plans and goals. Strategic planning helps to implement new projects, new technology, consolidation of data centers, data warehouses, exponential data growth, cost of ownership, and resources available in an organization to assess the future requirements. Strategic planning analyzes the business plan, potential blockage or other issues in the current architecture, processes and their implementation in new initiatives, and processes. Strategic planning helps to formulate the ideas about the key factors that are affecting the present and future development of the organization and the opportunities offered by the environment and the competence of the organization.
What I benefit from this course strategy management class is knowing. The strategic management is consisting of the analysis, decisions, and actions an organization undertakes to create and sustain competitive advantages. strategic management analyses. concern with overall objectives, involves multiple stakeholders, incorporates short and long term perspectives, recognizes tradeoffs between effectiveness and efficiency. The strategic management analysis, formulation, and implementation the challenge managers face of both aligning resources to take advantage of existing product markets as well as proactively exploring new opportunities.
Strategic management is the “identification of one or more sustainable competitive advantages a firm has in the markets it serves (or intends to serve), and allocation of resources to exploit them” (Business Dictionary, 2016). In order for industries and organizations to thrive, they must have strategies in place and strategic management processes to stay competitive, profitable, attractive to stakeholders, and to sustain advantages that set them apart from other competitors (Barney & Hesterly, 2015). The strategic management process involves a set of procedures that lead to choosing a strategy that will eventually lead to competitive advantage (Barney & Hesterly, 2015). The six steps of the strategic management process involves defining
Has there ever been an experience that not only has changed your development but also has recalibrated your entire life? If you were to ask me this question i would answer yes with great exuberance. I would also state that this occurred not even a month ago. I state this response with great joy simply because I enjoy the recalibration I have encountered, since this change can enhance a better future for myself. It has let me find my true passions and let me realize my true dislikes. Most importantly it has given me a new sense of maturity I feel that I didn’t earn! But in order to explain this adjustment that has crossed my path the reader must understand what and how my life was lived previously. Following this I can describe the events of my experience that leads to the pep talk that induced me into making the change that was essential in order to improve my future.
Strategic management is a process to enhance the goals of your business. This gives managers a strategic awareness and value of the company when strategic management is implemented. Having a strategic plan in a company makes the business successful. When a manager takes lead in the change of the environment it allows the company to improve on their short and long term goals. Managers