Planning for Change in an Organization Report

Planning for Change in an Organization Report

 

Tips: This assignment is another brief so use the examples from week two to set the assignment up for this week. I would suggest your team pick one the organization your team members chose for the individual assignment because you will already have some background to start the assignment.

 

Purpose of Assignment

 

Students begin to strategize on how a change initiative is planned and the potential obstacles to the change’s success. They will also begin to address the organizational resistance by determining a potential solution.

 

Assignment Steps

 

Consider an existing organization you are familiar with, such as an employer, or a company for which you would like to work that operates under a traditional management model. The company’s new CEO is looking to grow the company into a sustainable organization. In her initial evaluation, the CEO realizes that the traditional management approach is not compatible with being sustainable and wants to explore

 

integrating a Corporate Social Responsibility program as an initial step to becoming a sustainable organization.

 

Create a 1,400-word change management brief or report.

 

Explain how change management, in the context of Lewin’s or Kotter’s model (select only one), can help the organization become a socially responsible organization.

 

Apply Lewin’s or Kotter’s model and outline the following:

 

      • Define the project goals in the context of change management.

 

      • Propose an action plan for creating change.

 

      • Establish how progress will be measured.

 

      • Determine how performance will be validated.

 

Include at least four peer reviewed references.

 

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

 

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