IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGIC CHANGE: POLITICS, POWER AND CHANGE
Organizational Power and Politics
objective to maximize corporate wealth
Sources of Power
Ability to cope up with uncertainty Centrality. Control over information. Non substitutability Control
over contingencies Control. over resources
Organizational Conflict
is considered to be necessary for organizational change
Organization's Conflict Process
the organizations mode of operations
Managing Conflict Strategically
is better managers
should intervene at
latent stage and probe
into the causes of
conflict
Conflict Resolution Strategies
the chief executive officer or
corporate office interfere
and impose a solution
Steps in Change Process.
LEADERSHIP
is the process of directing and
influencing a group of people
Qualities or traits approach
the trait approach is where it is argued
that people are born with certain
character traits that make them
exceptional
Behavioral approach
This approach outlines the
different leadership approaches
used by the leaders in the
organization
Contingency or situational approach
This leadership approach focuses on variables and
circumstances that are related to the environment
and alsothose which would determine which
leadership style is appropriate for a particular
situation
Example in Colombia, the strategic process of Ecopetrol,
its impact on business consolidation, and the generation
of value for the Colombian State and for private
shareholders, all of them minority. This business case,
describes and analyzes, Four Strategic Cycles for the
consolidation of Ecopetrol today, head of a business
group with influence and activities at local, regional,
international and global level