Managing Change in Organisations
Assignment Brief
As part of the formal assessment for the programme you are required to submit a Managing Change in Organisations assignment.
Learning Outcomes:
After completing the module, you should be able to:
1. Evaluate and define the nature of the change process.
2. Evaluate, synthesise and apply a range of appropriate conceptual tools applicable to the management of change situations.
3. Demonstrate an awareness of the process of change in organisations.
4. Analyse the links between knowledge management, knowledge tracking and knowledge migration in organisational/change management.
5. Apply conceptual tools to professional practice.
Assignment Task
Answer all the following questions.
• You may select any organisation upon which to base your answers including the case study, but you are strongly recommended to select an organisation that you have worked for or one you feel you can research easily using the Internet and academic search engines. The latter approach is acceptable where you do not work for an organisation. It is also acceptable to base your answer on a case study.
• Your assignment must be a single document in word or PDF format.
Question 1
Using examples from organisations that you have either worked for or researched including the case study define and contrast the nature of the change process that they faced and using relevant models from the course materials and/or your own wider reading, demonstrate the key drivers for change in each case.
You must draw upon relevant theory, concepts and models and appropriate organisational examples.
In order to complete this task, you will need to consider as a first step the factors outlined in the course materials, referring as a start to the lessons on the Challenge of Change and Changing the Status Quo and relevant academic sources to your answer. (1000 words)
Question 2
Focusing on one of the examples you described in Question 1 identify the key stakeholders. How might senior management have identified the main areas of support or resistance to any planned change? Discuss how resistance to change should have been ideally managed.
You must draw upon relevant theory, concepts and models and appropriate organisational examples.
In order to complete this task, you will need to consider as a first step the factors outlined in the course materials, referring as a start to the lessons on Diagnosing and Planning Change and Making Change Stick add relevant academic sources to your answer. (1000 words)
Question 3
Using an example of change from either your own experience or from your own research, evaluate how effectively you feel the change process was managed in terms of the issues that surrounded knowledge management, knowledge tracking and knowledge migration.
Justify your conclusions in terms of both the implementation process and the outcomes achieved.
You must draw upon relevant theory, concepts and models and appropriate organisational examples.
In order to complete this task, you will need to consider as a first step the factors outlined in the course materials, referring as a start to the lessons on Management Approaches to Change, Making Change Stick and Leading the Change and add relevant academic sources to your answer.
(1000 words)
Question 4
Compare and contrast any two models that help senior managers to diagnose and plan change in their organisation. Discuss their role in supporting the success of such processes.
You must draw upon relevant theory, concepts and models and appropriate organisational examples.
In order to complete this task, you will need to consider as a first step the factors outlined in the course materials, referring as a start to the lessons on Diagnosing and Planning Change and Implementing Change add relevant academic sources to your answer. (1000 words)
