MGT/426

MANAGING CHANGE IN THE WORKPLACE

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MGT 426 Week 1 Change Examination

Purpose of Assignment

Students start to think about how change may impact an organization, how leadership is effective or ineffective in communicating, and to hear from other students about types of changes experienced or researched. Organizations are impacted by change both internally and externally.

Assignment Steps

Choose an organization at which you have worked or with which you are familiar.

Examine the type of change experienced (current or past employer or a company that your facilitator approves). This is an organization you will be using throughout the entire class.

Reflect on how the leadership introduced/announced the change and the reason for the change.

Prepare a graphic that illustrates your analysis of the change and in 1,050 words, cover the following:

• Identify the type of change
• Explain how the change was communicated
• Identify which leaders were involved in the communication
• Identify the change model, or recommend one if none apparently used

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines. 

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MGT 426 Week 2 Learning Team Charter

Overview

In this course, your team will work together to complete a few assignments. This chartering assignment is designed to help you apply your project management skills to understand the scope of your project, then break the project into goals, tasks, responsibilities, resources, and milestones. The assignment also asks you to discuss and answer some questions that will lay the foundation for developing your project.

Beyond the Standard Charter

You will notice that this chartering process goes beyond your standard University of Phoenix Charter by helping your team create a project plan for team success by providing you with opportunities to define your deliverables, recognize the connections between the deliverables and other classroom activities, determine your timelines and milestones, identify each team member’s expected contribution, and answer questions that lay the foundation for building your projects.

Putting “I” in “Team”

Important to note is the section for defining learning team expectations related to participation, collaboration, communication, team contributions, assignment deadlines, and other considerations. Please take the time to discuss and document how your team will address each area and any challenges that may arise.  It is important to understand that we are “Putting ‘I’ in ‘Team'”. In short, we will recognize and reward individuals according to their contributions to team output, not according to their team membership. This means that individual grades may be different from the team grade depending on each individual’s contribution to each team deliverable.

Completing This Assignment

Review the Charter and Project plan.

Review the weekly Learning Team deliverables.

Complete the provided Learning Team Charter and Project Plan, including the following: team member contact information, project by week, learning team expectations, team discussion questions.

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MGT 426 Week 2 Change Strengths and Weaknesses

Purpose of Assignment 

Students will learn to assess how an organization’s culture and strategy may impact the ability to consume and implement change, comprehend the different types of organizational structures, and how this may impact change initiatives. Students will understand how there are several influencing factors in how change is consumed by organizations.

Assignment Steps

Use the organization you chose in Week 1. 

Research the company’s culture.

Provide a 700-word summary regarding your organization:

• Summarize your review and research.
• Display the characteristics displayed by your company’s abilities as a learning organization.
• Explain how your company’s culture and learning organizational abilities may support or detract from a change initiative.

Include at least three references, with at least one from the UoP library.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

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MGT 426 Week 3 Using a Change Model to Improve Corporate Social Responsibility

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 (use SMART goals).
• Propose an action plan for creating change.
• Establish how progress will be measured.
• Determine how performance will be validated.

Include at least four references, with at least one from the UoP library.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

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MGT 426 Week 4 Planning for a New Office Report

You have been tasked to communicate to the VP of Human Resources about the need to prepare current staff for a more diverse workforce as a result of opening a new office in Miami, FL. This geographical area is known for its cultural, religious, and ethnic diversity in comparison to the company’s office in Topeka, KS.

Create a 1,900-word report analyzing the relationship between these concepts or topics:

• Analyze the role of innovation in opening the new office.  Include product and marketing innovation.
• Assess managing diversity in the workplace, particularly with new workers coming from Miami.  Discuss the differences between Topeka and Miami.
• Examine how technology facilitates the implementation of change with the distance from Topeka to Miami.
• Explain how the workforce in the company will benefit from welcoming an inclusive and more diverse group of coworkers.
• Explain the benefits and the opportunity that a more diverse workforce will create.
• Include at least five references, with at least two ‘peer reviewed’ from the UoP library.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

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Notes:  Please be realistic about the challenges faced in opening an office so far away from the current location.

MGT 426 Week 5 Managing Global Expansion as Change Presentatio1

Purpose of Assignment

Students will apply the course work to a real business issue and be able to think through the implications to the organization. Organizations and individuals engaged in global trade must adapt to the opportunities and challenges created by doing business across borders.

Assignment Steps

Select a continent where your organization (or a company for which you want to work) is currently operating or wishes to operate.

Outline how change can be managed for a company that has never done business outside of the U.S. (the PowerPoint will reflect this outline, it is not a seperate document).

Create a 10- to 12-slide communication plan in Microsoft® PowerPoint®, with speaker notes.

Define the contribution of employee empowerment as a catalyst for change into a global organization.

Explain how you can motivate and manage change, taking into account the following concepts:

• Change Management and the Basic Functions of Management
• Adapting to workforce diversity, cultural and language differences, and foreign customs

Include at least four peer reviewed references.

Format your presentation consistent with APA guidelines.

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MGT 426 Week 5 Motivation Toward Goals

Purpose of Assignment

Students learn to understand associate and leadership involvement in creating metrics that fit the organization’s culture and strategy.They will also be able to successfully track progress to goals.

Today’s workforce is diverse in terms of age and other aspects that influence performance and success. Leaders must both motivate and support employees so that they can continuously adapt to change while creating opportunity in their careers.

Assignment Steps

Develop a 1,900-word analysis of how change management can help retain or promote employee loyalty by taking into account:

• Motivating individuals to stay engaged
• Monitoring employee performance through the control function of management
• Communicating the change process at both a strategic and tactical level
• Personal examples supporting the above 3 items

Include at least three peer reviewed references.

Format your assignment consistent with APA guidelines.

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