For this assignment think of a change management situation within your organisation and answer the below questions for your report:
1.What Sectors and elements of the environment do you consider to have had the most influence on the change within your organisation. Justify your answers.
2.What are the advantages and disadvantages of the change.
3.Think of a change situation within your organisation. What were the sources of resistance? How did the management try to combat them.
Your answers should be presented in report format and be suitably referenced using relevant academic sources. You are expected to apply the theories and concepts studied in the module, particularly within Topics:
1. Thinking Strategically
2. The Nature Of Change
3. Culture and Change
4. Power and Conflict
5. Modelling Change
6. Changing Structures
The emphasis should be on analysis, critical evaluation and synthesis, avoiding an overly descriptive approach.
References:
Senior, B. and J. Fleming, (2006) Organizational Change, 3rd Edition, Pearson.
Senior, B. and Swailes, S. (2010) Organisational Change, 4th edition, Pearson Education Ltd.
Balogun, J. and Hailey, V.H. (2004) Exploring Strategic Change, 2nd ed., Prentice Hall
Campbell, A. and Sommers-Luchs K (1998) Strategic Synergy, 2nd Ed., Thomson
Carnall, C. (2003) Managing Change in Organisations, 4th ed., Prentice Hall
DeWit, R. and Meyer, R. (1999) Strategy Synthesis, Thomson Business Press.
DeWit, R. and Meyer, R. (2004) Strategy, Process, Content, Context Thomson Business Press
Grint, K. (1997) Fuzzy Management: Contemporary Ideas and Practices at Work, Oxford University Press.
Hammer, M. and Champey, J. (1993) Reengineering the Corporation, Nicholas Brierly
Hardy, C. (1994) Managing Strategic Action: Mobilizing Change, Concepts, Readings and Cases, SAGE.
Mabey, C and Mayon-White, B. (1993) Managing Change, PCP
Mintzberg, H. Lampel, J., Quinn, B. and Ghoshal, S. (2003) The Strategy Process: Concepts, Contexts and Cases, 4th Ed, Prentice Hall
Stacey R D (2003) Strategic Management and Organisational Dynamics,4th Ed,. Pitman
Van der Heijden, (1996) Scenarios: The Art of Strategic Conversation, Wiley
In addition each seminar for the FT and PT modules are accompanied by three contemporary journal articles.
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