Organizational Studies: Change Agents
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Organization: Walmart
1. Who are the internal change agents in your organization? What behavioral strategies do they use to invoke change? What influence do these change agents have on other employees? Who might otherwise be resistant to change within the organization?
2. Who are the external change agents in your organization, and how do these change agents affect your organization? What behaviors do they display, and what strategies do they use to invoke change within your organization? Are the employees in your organization more resistant to external or to internal change agents? Why or why not?
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The solution is a comprehensive look at change agents within organizations. Taking on Walmart as a simulated example, the solution identifies change agents from within the organization, behavioral strategies that lead to change and their effect on employees/members. The solution both looks into internal and external change agents influecining the organization and provides a detailed expalantion of the concept of organizational change by example. Written in the APA format replete with references.
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Defining Social Change
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