2006 Change and Risk Management in Government
Content
- The nature and strategic change requirements.
- Stakeholders and change management strategies.
- Models of strategic change management (Prosci, Hall, McKinsey, Kotter, Lewin).
- Strategic changes and change management practices in government.
- Changes and risks.
- Identification of risks, quantitative analysis and evaluation of risks.
- Risk management and risk financing.
- Risk management specificalities in the public sector.
- Risks and crisis.
- Crisis and cutback management in government.
- Crisis situations and governmental response (natural disasters, wars, terorism, recessions/economic downturns)
Objectives and competences
Students
- Are able to understand the importance and necessity to implement changes in (public) organisations
- Are able to use different models of change management
- Understand relations between changes, risks and potential crisis situation occurance
- Are able to assess risks in specific situations
Competences:
- Ability to implement practical changes in (public) organisations
- Ability to identify and assess risks in organisations
- ability to make and implement decisionmaking in crisis
- ability of problem solving, strategic thinking and utilisation of relevant information