Week 6 Assignment

Complete your applications paper on Leading and Managing an Organizational Change. In your applications paper, you will apply Activities Contributing to Effective Change Management to a real-world situation. The activitiesor stepsare summarized in textbook readings.

Note on Activities/Steps

The author of your textbook places activities associated with Creating a Vision after activities associated with Motivating Change. Most organizational change experts place vision first. In your paper, you may want to address Creating a Vision before you address Motivating Change. You are free to determine the order of these steps as they relate to the topic of your paper.

Options for Paper

Choose an option for this paper:

Option 1 Prior Change Evaluation - Your Organization

Evaluate the way in which a prior change was handled in an organization in which you currently work/previously worked or actively participated. Write a paper in which you describe and evaluate how the activities in your textbook were handled. If you are critical of the way in which the leader(s) managed the change, offer recommendations for improvement. If you were the leader of the change, critique your own performance.

Option 2 Prior Change Evaluation Company for which Library Sources on a

Change Process is Available. Evaluate the way in which a prior change was handled in

an organization such as Google, Amazon, Hewlett-Packard, or Southwest Airlines.

Rely on secondary/library research and your knowledge of leadership and organizational change to write a paper in which you describe and evaluate how the activities in your textbook were handled. If you are critical of the way in which the leader(s) managed the change, offer recommendations for improvement.

Option 3 Change Planning Your Organization or an Organization with which you

are Familiar. Plan the process of leading an organizational change. If you are a leader

who is going (or would like) to manage a future organizational changeor an employee who can imagine him or herself in the role of the leader write a paper in which you

plan to enact the activities indicated in your textbook.

Option 4 Present your idea for a paper on the process of leading change. If you

prefer to write a research paper on an aspect of organizational change, focus on a real work project involving organizational change, or have another idea for a paper that will reinforce learning about organizational change, make a proposal to your instructor.