Homework: Assessing Priorities and Planning for Change
Overview
It is important to be able to accurately diagnose the higher priority needs for change in organizations and to develop a high-level process for initiating that change. You will analyze the factors driving change and how these impact an organization of your choice. The emphasis here is not on how to change, but on what to change, and why.
By successfully completing this assessment, you will demonstrate your proficiency in the following course competencies:
a. Assess the complex and dynamic nature of organizational change.
b. Analyze ways in which leaders and managers can effectively initiate, shape, and support organizational change.
c. Analyze the processes of change in people, groups, and organizations.
d. Communicate effectively in a professional manner.
Preparation
Using your Organizational Change: An Action-Oriented Toolkit text, select a change model that best applies to a change needed in your workplace or other familiar organization. Use the Library to find three to five additional resources on determining what to change in an organization.
Task
Using Kotter's 8-step model and one other change model, analyze aspects of the change needed for your chosen organization and include the following:
a. Describe a change challenge facing the selected organization to sustain success.
b. List the factors that are driving change for this selected organization.
c. Identify the type of change that is needed for the selected organization. Use Figure 3.1 in Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change (linked in Resources) for your identification.
d. Assess the organization's readiness for change and ways to heighten awareness. Use the force field analysis model for this assessment.
e. Articulate recommendations for change for the selected organization. These would be recommendations you would eventually deliver to the organization's executive leadership team. Make sure you support your recommendations with materials from the course readings and from your analysis. Remember, the emphasis here is not on how to change, but on what to change, and why.
Format your homework according to the give formatting requirements:
a. The answer must be double spaced, typed, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
b. The response also includes a cover page containing the title of the homework, the course title, the student's name, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
c. Also include a reference page. The references and Citations should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.