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BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com

For more classes visit<br>www.snaptutorial.com<br>Read the case study Change at DuPont from the end of chapter 7 in your text. Answer the following questions in a three- to four- page APA style paper; include outside sources to support your answers.<br> a. To what extent are the following approaches to change embedded in the DuPont story (justify your answer, providing specific examples):<br> • OD<br>

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BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com

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  1. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com

  2. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Change at DuPont For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Read the case study Change at DuPont from the end of chapter 7 in your text. Answer the following questions in a three- to four- page APA style paper; include outside sources to support your answers. a. To what extent are the following approaches to change embedded in the DuPont story (justify your answer, providing specific examples): • OD

  3. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Change Initiatives For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Find an article that identifies at least one reason why organizational change initiatives fail in organizations. Summarize the article then present your opinion. Be sure to provide a complete APA citation of the article. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.

  4. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Change Intervention For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Complete the following exercise (Exercise 7.2 in your text): Choose a current issue in your local neighborhood. You will figure out how you would design a large-scale change intervention program in relation to this issue. Answer the following questions and respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings. a. How many people would it make sense to involve?

  5. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Change Leader For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com What skills are appropriate for a leader of change in a modern organization? How do you cultivate them? On reflection, what skills do you possess and how do you compare with your list of skills? What can you do to improve your skills? Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.

  6. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Change Rationales For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Find two articles about organizations going through change. Provide a complete APA citation for each article. Answer the following questions and respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings. What is the rationale presented for the changes? What are the internal and external pressures considered in the change?

  7. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Change Stories (Green Mountain Resort) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Read the case study: Green Mountain Resort (Dis) solves the Turnover Problem from the end of Chapter 2. Answer the following questions in a three page APA style paper; include outside sources to support your answers. a. Which of the six change images discussed in the chapter can be identified in the assumptions about changing turnover that were held by: • Gunter? • The hospitality literature? • The consultant?

  8. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Change Stories For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Briefly reflect upon an important change you have experienced in your life. Compare your change to the change stories from the beginning of Chapter 1. Compare the change stories from the beginning of Chapter 1. Answer the following questions and respond to at least two of your classmates' postings. What are the common issues across each story? What are the differences?

  9. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Entire Course For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Change at DuPont BUS 661 Organizational Change Report- Bridgepoint Ed. BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Assignment NESTLE BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Assignment British Airways BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Final Paper BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change ( Tyco ) BUS 661 Change Initiatives BUS 661 Force Field Analysis BUS 661 Change Stories BUS 661 Change Stories (Green Mountain Resort)

  10. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Force Field Analysis For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Find at least one significant article related to either downsizing, implementation of a new technology, or a merger or acquisition. Provide a complete APA citation of the article. What are the key driving forces? What are the key restraining forces? Prepare a force field analysis graph (see Figure 5.9 from your text). Think about how to implement the change by increasing drivers or reducing restraints. Describe and discuss the change in terms of the force field analysis in 200 words or less.

  11. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Assignment British Airways For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com BUS661 Leading Organizational Change Assignment British Airways British Airways Read the case study: The British Airways Swipe Card Debacle from the end of chapter 8 in your text. Review the swipe card story, drawing on each of the following change perspectives discussed in chapters 7 and 8: organizational development, sense-making, change management, contingency, and processual. Answer the following questions in a three page APA style paper; include outside sources to support your answers.

  12. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Assignment NESTLE For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com BUS661: Leading Organizational Change Assignment ( NESTLE) Nestlé Read the case study: Nestlé from the end of chapter 4 in your text. Answer the following questions in a three page APA style paper; include outside sources to support your answers. a. Did Nestlé undergo either first-order and/or second-order change according to the case? Answer listing examples of types for change from the case.

  13. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Final Paper For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com BUS661Leading Organizational Change Final Paper Final Paper The final assignment for this course is an Organizational Change Report. The purpose of the Organizational Change Report is for you to culminate the learning achieved in the course by describing your understanding and application of knowledge in the field of organizational change.

  14. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Leading Organizational Changes (Tyco) For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com BUS661Leading Organizational Change ( Tyco ) Tyco Read the case study: Tyco from the end of chapter 11 in your text. Answer the following questions in a three page APA style paper; include outside sources to support your answers. a. Describe how the turnaround team may have used Gerard and Teurfs’ transformation skills to overcome the frustration of employees.

  15. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Organizational Change Report- Bridge point Ed. For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com BUS661 Organizational Change Report- Bridge point Ed. Focus of the Organizational Change Report 8-10 page paper (excluding appendixes, cover page, abstract, and references). The paper should focus on Bridge point Education. Writing the Organizational Change Report The Organizational Change Report:

  16. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Preventing Resistance For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Listed below are a number of reasons why people may be resistant to a change. For each of the reasons, identify at least one action that could be taken by management to reduce the prospect that it will be a significant source of resistance (Exercise 6.2 from your text). Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings. Reason for Resistance Proposed Action Dislike of change

  17. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Productive Failure For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Sometimes things go wrong and it's not always a bad thing. Discuss a time in your organization’s history when a change process failed. Explain what happened and what was learned in the process. Respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings.

  18. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Restructuring For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Imagine that you are an employee of a large organization about to go through a restructuring. Discuss the following issues and respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings. What information would you like? From whom would you prefer to get this information? Why? In what format would you prefer to get it: individually, in a group, through an office memo or email, other?

  19. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 The Vision “Wow” Factor For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Find the vision statement of five different companies that you are interested in. You can get these from either annual reports or from online searches. You may also use the vision statements listed in Table 9.4 of your text. to the following and respond to at least two of your classmates’ postings. Choose and paraphrase two different frameworks from Table 9.3 in your text. Assess the vision statements in relation to the two frameworks.

  20. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Toxic Handlers For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Read Table 11.5 from your text about toxic handlers. Select one of the following discussion focuses (a, b, or c) depending on your own experiences. A. Have you ever been or observed a toxic handler? If so, compose your discussion around these questions: How did this emerge? How long did it last? What were you/their greatest challenges? How did you/they manage the burnout factor?

  21. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Vision and Organizational Change For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Locate one journal article that discusses vision in relation to specific companies going through organizational change. The change could be growth, decline, or some form of restructuring. Provide a complete APA citation of the article. How does each commentator link vision to the change? Is vision an explanatory variable for understanding why a change succeeded or failed? How would you rate the tone of the article in relation to vision: positive, neutral, or negative?

  22. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Week 1 Assignment Change Stories For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Week 1 Assignment Change Stories Change Stories. In a three- to four- page paper (excluding the title and reference pages), reflect on an important professional change that you have experienced. Compare your change story to one of the stories from the beginning of Chapter 1 of the text. Answer the following questions and support your thoughts with at least two scholarly sources. In your paper you must:

  23. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Week 2 Assignment Force Field Analysis For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Week 2 Assignment Force-Field Analysis Force-Field Analysis. Describe the concept of force-field analysis and the forces that either drive or restrain the change process. Using the force-field analysis model, discuss a change initiative that you are familiar with, and define the key driving forces and key restraining forces that impact the change. Your paper should be three to four pages in length (excluding the title and reference pages). 

  24. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Week 3 Assignment Mitigating the Chaos of Change For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Week 3 Assignment Mitigating the Chaos of Change Mitigating the Chaos of Change. Change managers play an active role in the way change occurs within the organization. There are specific foundational approaches associated with the change process and the coach and interpreter images. Evaluate and discuss the Organizational Development (OD) approach as associated with the coach image. Evaluate and discuss the sense making approach as associated with the interpreter image. Compare and contrast the steps of each evaluated framework.

  25. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Week 4 Assignment Successful Change Versus a Dismal Failure For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com BUS 661 WEEK 4 Successful Change Versus a Dismal FailureSuccessful Change Versus a Dismal Failure. Using the  University Library, locate a scholarly article that describes a successful change initiative within an organization. Next, locate a scholarly article that describes a failed change initiative within an organization. Compare and contrast the implementation theories used for the change events discussed in the two articles. Provide a summation of what could have been done to make the failure a successful initiative.

  26. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com • BUS 661 Week 5 Assignment Preparing to Communicate • For more classes visit • www.snaptutorial.com • BUS 661 Week 5 Assignment Preparing to Communicate • Preparing to Communicate. When change is imminent in an organization, there are specific steps that must be taken to develop the proper communication procedures and guidelines for the change process. Assume that you have been assigned the role of “toxic handler.” In your paper: •  Describe the toxic handler concept. •  Explain how you will prepare to effectively handle the role.

  27. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Week 5 DQ 1 For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Week 5 Discussion 1. Imagine that you are the liaison between the decision makers and the followers and that your role is to communicate potential personnel change initiatives. Using the communication strategies found in the text, what actions will you take to format the conversation with employees regarding the restructuring process? 

  28. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Week 5 DQ 2 For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com Week 5 Discussion 2 There are specific qualities required to successfully communicate change initiatives within an organization. Drawing from this week’s lecture and readings, discuss some of the most important leadership skills required to develop employee ownership and acceptance of change initiatives within an organization.

  29. BUS 661 Believe Possibilities--snaptutorial.com BUS661 Week 6 Final PaperLeading Organizational Change For more classes visit www.snaptutorial.com BUS 661 Week 6 Final Paper Focus of the Final Paper We have determined that change is inevitable and subject to a number of variables attributing to the success or failure of the change process. The Final Paper is an exploration of a change initiative that you have personally experienced or researched. The paper should demonstrate your knowledge of the change process through a comprehensive analysis and discussion of the following aspects of organizational change. Your paper must include: 

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