Organizational change is necessary for organizations to remain competitive and to adapt to globalization. Discuss how leaders might assess organizational need for change and identify tools leaders might employ to determine the need for change.
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Organizational Change
This assignment will focus on organizational change and the challenges associated with change. For this assignment you are speaking to an audience and must create a PowerPoint Presentation that addresses the following questions:
Discuss the positives and negatives of organizational change.
Discuss approaches managers should use with employees to get them to embrace change.
An introduction slide that welcomes your listeners and includes what you plan to discuss on slides 3, 4, and 5.
A slide listing the potential positive impacts of organizational change.
A slide listing the potential challenges to organizational change.
A slide for approaches managers may use to help employees embrace change.
A summary slide addressing the key points of your presentation.
Include comments that you plan to say to your audience in the Notes section below each slide, beginning with your title slide.
Organizational Change
This paper is third WI designated assignment and builds on the previous paper. Based on the feedback from the OB Project – Part 1 you will now produce
another essay, that is a 2-3 page written report (excluding title page, references and any figures, tables or appendices). Each paper will include an APA
formatted title page and a separate References page. Do not include an abstract, table of contents, or appendixes. The primary topics included in this paper
are as follows: Providing a brief overview of the problem (3-4 sentences), the following:
Theoretical Lens – The topic: Organizational Change, apply that topic to the your chosen organization and the problem developed in OB Project- Part
- Describe very specifically how the concepts, principles, and findings represented in the topic matter to the problem, and how they can be leveraged to articulate a solution. [about 1 page]
Recommendation – Provide a list (at least three) of very specific recommendations/action steps that flow out of the discussion of the topic and that can
help solve the problem. In thinking about how to craft the topic into those recommendations, strike a balance between being practical and being bold. Every
organization has key constraints (culture, organizational stakeholders, and competitive environment) that need to be taken into account when designing
interventions. Although those should be considered, resist the urge to “play it safe”, as that tendency often leads to modest interventions that are ultimately
ineffective. [about 1 page]
All work submitted for grading shall be of collegiate quality, language, depth and organization. All work should be proofread, free of grammatical errors,
include proper citations, and be in accordance with The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th ed. (APA Ch 2, 8-10). Please refer
to the grading feedback for your first part of the project to avoid making the same APA mistakes again.
NOTE: This essay will include a title page, references page, introduction, body, and summary/conclusions. For more information on these requirements, go to
the Additional Resources Module in our Canvas classroom.
Writing Instructive (WI) Requirement: You are to apply what you learned from the Writing Center from the OB Part 1 to this assignment. You are also strongly
encouraged to have a conference (either online or F2F) with the Writing Center before submitting your paper. Submit this assignment through the
Assignments Course link. The due date for the OB Project – Part 2 is posted in the Course Schedule. The required file format for the paper is a .doc or .docx
file. This assignment will be run through the Canvas SimCheck Plagiarism Review program. The goal of this paper is to have a 10% or less similarity. Ensure
you submit prior to the actual due date to determine your similarity. If your similarity is greater than 10%, you will need to rework until you have achieved 10%
or less. Grades will be reduced based on an index greater than 10%, see below. No late submissions are accepted.
Organizational change.
Discuss a time that you experienced some type of organizational change. What was the change, what factors drove it, how did management deal with resistance to it, and what was the final outcome?
Continuing from the organizational change question; were the people involved with the change under stress? How did the organization apply stress management to the situation?
Organizational change
People’s previous experiences of change provide them with a “script” – a set of assumptions/beliefs as to what happens in a situation of organizational change. Based on your previous experiences of organizational change, what are your expectations in terms of what events/actions/outcomes usually follow the announcement of a program of change in an organization?
Organizational Change
Robots may not always deliver the benefits they promise. Fletcher (2018) describes the experience of an animal charity in San Francisco that had security problems with break ins, vandalism, and local drug users who made staff and visitors feel unsafe. They employed a 1.5-meter tall Knightscope security robot. The robot patrolled nearby car parks and alleyways, taking video recordings and saying “hello” to passersby; however, it was accused of harassing homeless people. Calls for retribution appeared on social media, and the charity suffered more vandalism. The robot was regularly tipped over and actually suffered vandalism itself. Robots with artificial intelligence routinely provide care for children and the elderly. They work in hospitals, perform surgery, and play a range of analytical roles in offices. But Fletcher sees the spread of workplace robots as a major challenge.
Consider the following questions, provide responses, and then discuss your colleagues’ responses in this week’s discussion.
How far are we willing to, or should we at all, let robots into the workplace?
What kinds of roles are acceptable for robots and which are not?
Most importantly, who sets the rules for how robots behave and how they decide on priorities when interacting with people?
Organizational Change
Robots may not always deliver the benefits they promise. Fletcher (2018) describes the experience of an animal charity in San Francisco that had security problems with break ins, vandalism, and local drug users who made staff and visitors feel unsafe. They employed a 1.5-meter tall Knightscope security robot. The robot patrolled nearby car parks and alleyways, taking video recordings and saying “hello” to passersby; however, it was accused of harassing homeless people. Calls for retribution appeared on social media, and the charity suffered more vandalism. The robot was regularly tipped over and actually suffered vandalism itself. Robots with artificial intelligence routinely provide care for children and the elderly. They work in hospitals, perform surgery, and play a range of analytical roles in offices. But Fletcher sees the spread of workplace robots as a major challenge.
Consider the following questions, provide responses, and then discuss your colleagues’ responses in this week’s discussion.
How far are we willing to, or should we at all, let robots into the workplace?
What kinds of roles are acceptable for robots and which are not?
Most importantly, who sets the rules for how robots behave and how they decide on priorities when interacting with people?
Organizational Change
Hypothesize on what causes organizations to change.
What are the potential consequences of resistance to organizational change?
Recall a specific instance when you experienced significant change at work.
What was the overall outcome?
Organizational Change (in Defeating Leadership Toxicity in the Organization)
Extend the literature review provided by at least 2 more papers (ideally recent) on Organizational Change.
Based on the extended literature review, write a paper addressing the following issues (with the topic of defeating leadership toxicity in the organization in mind):
1 What is organizational change?
2 What are the key theories and findings of organizational change research?
3 What are the key implications for management practice?
4 Why should we study organizational change?
Organize paper in a scholarly way.
Add section titles when necessary.
Explain logic and when appropriate, use external sources and proper citations.
Conclude with a paragraph or so evaluating the entire exercise in terms of what was learned and reflection on the topic.
Assignment Expectations
1. Able to understand the key themes in the reading list.
2. Able to understand work groups and teams research theories, findings, and implications.
3. Answer the questions with clarity, depth, and critical thinking.
4. Completeness and coherence: Chain of thought is easy to follow.
5. Collected relevant evidences and consulted additional papers/resources to support the propositions.
6. Paper is written clearly, with appropriate format. Reference list is complete. Citation is properly done.
The paper is 8 pages long.
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