After reading the attached "Tales of Woe at Concord Bookshop" 1. Discuss the phases in the organizational change process. 2. Describe 2 to 3 phases of the organizational change process that were not completed or implemented at the Concord Bookshop that lead to the change failure.
Locate and review two scholarly resources to discuss ways in which planning impacts organizational change. Analyze the studies for communication failures and summarize the reasons behind the failures. Also explain how you avoid failure, and repair or rebuild communication channels to facilitate change in a similar situation.
What are some indicators Starbucks & Dunkin Donuts should review to determine the sustainability of its organizational changes? Compare & contrast.
Compare and contrast various models of change. Based on your experience in organizations and your scholarly reading, which model has the widest application in organizational scenarios? Why? Are there any specific industries which rely more on one model than another? Substantiate your responses from your readings and with relevan
Pick out two publicly traded companies and a mutual change that both have undergone in the last 5 years. In 1 page, please specify the names of the two companies along with a brief write-up on the changes you will be comparing in the two companies. Be sure to pick two companies which have undergone some type of fairly substantia
Create an annotated bibliography in APA format of three to four research studies discussing the impact of healthy organizational change on employee motivation. Analyze the studies and comment on whether the theoretical principles of change management hold true in a real world environment. Substantiate your responses with relevan
James, I need your help and guidance with the following questions. 1) Why do organizations decline? What steps can organizational leaders take to halt decline and restore organizational growth? 2) What is organizational change? Describe and explain the forces for and resistances to organizational change. 3) What is the
1) Think of a change that occurred at your place of employment or in a company with which you are familiar. What events occurred during the change? Where do they fall on the change transition curve? 2) Imagine you work for a large corporation that is reducing its workforce. What factors may have occurred that would lead to
You have been put in charge of implementing change for a particular process within your organization where the goal is to reduce costs. Identify a process that you wish to improve. What changes would you make? How would you make them? What cost savings could be realized? How would you measure your results?
Search the Internet to find the term "boiled frog" phenomenon. What is the "boiled frog" phenomenon? How does it apply to business and, particularly, strategic management? Do some research to find a business example of a situation where this has occurred. What could the business have done to avoid the effects of the phenomenon?
Develop Part II of a comprehensive plan to implement an organization change. Part II of your organizational change plan focuses on strategies for implementing the proposed change. 1. Describe the methods that will be used to monitor implementation of your proposed change. 2. Examine the relationship between the organization's
1. What are the the five subsystems in organizational change? Explain what they mean. Why? 2. Use a time at work when your organization went through these stages. 3. Explain, based on your organization, a socio-technical system and its five components. 4. Based on your organization, compare and contrast managerial effi
1. Discuss environmental pressures for change. Identify each type of environmental pressure. 2. Discuss internal organizational pressures for change. Identify each type of internal pressure for change. 3. Discuss the difference between first and second order changes.
Discussion: - Explain why change models are useful. - As a manager and/or change agent, discuss why understanding readiness for change is important? List and discuss 3 ways you can determine readiness for change within an organization. - Compare and contrasts 3 reasons why people resist change. Then, compare and contrast 3
The Dulac Box plant produces wooden packaging boxes to be used in the local seafood industry. Current operations allow the company to make 500 boxes per day, in two 8-hour shifts (250 boxes per shift). The company has introduced some moderate changes in equipment, and conducted appropriate job training, so that production levels
Think of an organization you have worked for or one with which you are very familiar. Diagnose the need for change and present a plan to transform the organization, utilizing Kotter's 8-Step Approach.
I need some help writing notes for a powerpoint on changing a health care organization to an electronic system. In this part, I am just describing possible organizational and individual barriers to change. Attached are the barriers I found for this part. Would you be interested in helping me with the notes? I am doing two or t
Just like many other areas of business, organizational change has been impacted by technology. Address the following: - How has the need for organizational change consulting been impacted by technology? - How has the process of organizational change been impacted by technology? - Do you see these changes as positive or neg
Focus primarily on the major change that is taking place at Verizon under CEO McAdam. Some of the issues to include: (a) his new vision/goals strategies and how he implements them(think of Wireless) (b) new culture he implements and why (c) culture change (d) union negotiations (e) results of new culture and strategies
Create a force-field analysis to address the leadership team's concerns about what else it should be doing and to what it has not yet paid enough attention. See the attached documents to help you with this task.
Identify a change currently occurring in your organization. Provide a background for your classmates of the rationale behind this change. If you were assigned to support and manage this change, how would you do this? What would you do differently in managing and supporting this change?
Create a force field analysis to present to your consulting partners that evaluates the idea of holding a large-scale, community-building meeting. You will want to evaluate the forces that will help it be successful and the forces that would hinder such a meeting from being an effective method for change. Make sure the hindering
Who owns change in an organization? The party creating the change or the party that is receiving the change? Or someone else?
Using an example of how the Lewin's change model is applied, discuss your recommendations for when you would use this model to address organizational change.
"In any organization change can be perceived as being something positive or something negative. People are naturally hesitant to change to a new way of doing things based on their level of comfort. To have an organization change its culture from one way of thinking to another depends on the capabilities of the management staff.
Describe and discuss the principal activities required in the development of an organization.
Discuss the process that can change a group of individual performers into a team.
Read the following case: Sunflower incorporated. In Cumming, T. G., & Worley, C. G. (2005). Organization development and change (9th ed.) (pp. 239-240). Mason, OH: Southwestern College Publications. Using appropriate terms and theories, analyze the case. The analysis should answer the following questions: How would you
1. Evaluate how a change initiative creates the conditions of high efficiency for an organization through clarity and focus. What are the benefits of clarity and focus in change initiatives? 2. What are the characteristics of a self-organizing system? How can self-organize principles be utilized to interface with a marketpla
Why is it important to maintain a balance of power between different groups of organizational stakeholders?