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putting your idea in context (Hartley and Fletcher's political…
putting your idea in context
politics
institutions
values/interests
power
Hartley and Fletcher's
political astuteness framework
Personal Skills:
ability to exercise self control, to listen to others and reflect on and be curious about their views. Proactive disposition.
Interpersonal skills
: "soft" skills --> able to influence the thinking and behaviour of others. Making people feel valued. "Though" skills --> ability to negotiate, able to stand up to pressure from other people , able to handle conflict
Reading people and situations
Building alignment and alliances
: detailed appreciation of context, players and objectives of stakeholders
Strategic direction and scanning
: strategic thinking long therm and having a roadmap. Scanning: thinking about long therm issues that might have an impact on the org. Noticing opportunities and threats coming from the context. Analysing and managing uncertainty
political context
societal perspective
organisational perspective
Crozier and Friedberg (1980)
explain that the political game is a concrete mechanism through which people and or organisations structure their power relations and regulate them.
political analysis
According to
Yaffee and Chadwick (2004)
political analysis is a process of --->
desegregating the key players of a specific political context
identifying how they influnece progress toward your goals
developing strategies to interact with them to advance your goals
stakeholder analysis
Stakeholder definition by
Freeman
:
"Any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of the organisations objectives"
Stakeholder analysis is a tool that aims to understand the main stakeholders and to analyse and categorise them according to the variables relevant for the purpose of the analysis
Bryson (2004) the main purpose of the analysis is to
identify the relevant stakeholders and their interests
to clarify the stakeholders views of the organisation
to identify the key strategic issues
to begin the process of identifying coalitions of support and interest amongst them
Johnson et al (2008, p. 156)
adapted the model developed by
Mendelow
in 1991 which uses a matrix of power and level of interest to identify 4 types of stakeholders
High power / Low interest is
group C
to keep satisified
High power/ High level of interest is
group D
key player
Low power/ Low interest
group A
minimal effort
Low power/ High interest
group B
keep inforemd