Finally I think I’m there….

So it’s been a long time coming but I think I’ve managed to pick two cycles now.

The easy one has been Morgan and Hunt’s relationship Committment and trust model – as a way of mitigating the risk of resistance from a stakeholder. Lots of wider course links that I will elaborate on in a separate post later.

The second one that I am going with is based on a staff turnover risk. Now there were a few issues here at the offset…. 1. I would never be able to mitigate staff turnover in itself, it’s just not within my power so my search for a model was proving difficult from the start. And so 2. The risk is actually one of not managing staff turnover well enough.

Having tied this down and chatting to a few people about it I was able to look at the ‘people’ side of managment, and have a few theories that I can test out in this situation….

– Fowler’s levels of induction linked in with….
– Herriot and his ‘social negotiation; psycological contract building….
– which would need investigation of motivators…Scheins iceberg/Maslow…

And from other units I have…..
– bass and avolio’s individualised consideration (transformational leadership)
– OGC common reasons for project failure ….

And possibly…
– service profit chain
– TQM/lean approaches
– transformation process and people being a key input for the organisation that need to be managed in order to produce quality outputs.

Onward to planning each cycle now….hope to have my assignment plan done by the weekend so that I can get writing sunday/Monday.

Uhhh – actually no I haven’t sorted it!

Have just learnt – and i should have seen it in the assignment brief – that i have to use two cycles of enquiry that I haven’t included in my scoping reports prior to now – doh!

Never mind – a bit of re-framing needed.  And i’m still ok for my Morgan and hunt model and might look at using the stakeholder/staff turnover risk I identified in TMA06 as an opportunity to revisit stakeholder analysis and management.

More thinking needed….

Sorted it….!

Had some really useful help from others and, probably quite slowly, realised that I can get around my issue.

I don’t need to have put a framework to the test in order to complete a cycle of enquiry. By taking a much smaller approach to ‘cycles’ I can take one of my risks, identify a theory that would help me mitigate it, plan how to apply that theory in my Ebi context and cite use of that theory for other situations to support my plan – that should just about cover it I think.

So my assignment may end up covering:

– stakeholder identification, mapping and management.
– surfacing a theory to manage resistance and presenting a plan of how to apply it in context.

Thanks so much to everyone has has helped with ideas – if you hadn’t guessed already it’s been driving me mad.

Don’t let this stop anyone still throwing some thoughts in though – still plenty of time before the assignment is due and besides I’ve for to start planning how to write it up yet!