Task Type Discussion Board 2 Deliverable Length 200–30.docx

Task Type: Discussion Board 2 Deliverable Length: 200–300
words
Points Possible: 75 Due Date: 4/12/2015 11:59:59 PM CT
Primary Discussion Response is due by Wednesday (11:59:59pm
Central), Peer Responses are due
by Sunday (11:59:59pm Central).
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area,
write 200–300 words that respond to the
following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments.
This will be the foundation for future discussions
by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples
to reinforce your ideas.
Discuss the following points regarding how to identify forces of
change and their impact:
Identify 3 examples of external forces affecting any of your
current or prior work experience.
Identify 3 examples of internal forces affecting any of your
current or prior work experience.
For each of the above, how have these forces affected you
personally?
For each of the above, how have these forces affected the
organization?
Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your
fellow classmates with at least a 100-word reply
about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to

be compelling and enlightening. To help you
with your discussion, please consider the following questions:
What did you learn from your classmate's posting?
What additional questions do you have after reading the
posting?
What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
What differences or similarities do you see between your
posting and other classmates' postings?
For assistance with your assignment, please use your text, Web
resources, and all course materials.
Course Materials
Task Type: Individual Project Deliverable Length: 250–300
words + plan shell with a minimum of 2
scholarly references
Weekly tasks or assignments (Individual or Group Projects) will
be due by Monday, and late submissions will be
assigned a late penalty in accordance with the late penalty
policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All submission
posting times are based on midnight Central Time.
Transformational Change Management Plan
You will create an entire Transformational Change Management
Plan for a medium-sized public company that
has lost business to a competitor that has chosen to outsource
much of its production operations. The company
has been based in a small Midwestern town, it is one of the
largest employers, and it has an excellent

reputation for employee welfare. It is now planning to do the
very same offshoring, which will involve large
lay-offs of long-term employees.
The Key Assignment is a comprehensive transformational
change management plan that will combine tasks
from Weeks 1–5.
The project deliverables are as follows:
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Week 1: Introduction
Week 2: What is driving the need for this transformational
change?
Week 3: Theories of Change Management
Week 4: Communication Plan
Week 5: Implementation Plan
Create an APA title page and the following section for Week 1:
Week 1: Introduction (250–300 words)
You will research and find an example of a firm that is going
through the transformational change of
offshoring much of its production activities. The first part of
the plan will be the Introduction. Context
for the introduction includes the following:
What is offshoring?
How were the stakeholders affected?
What initiated the change?

How well has it been received or accepted, and why?
Please submit your assignment.
Course Materials
Phase Resources:
6 Drivers of Change
This short Harvard Business Review article is more about the
keys to successful change efforts, rather than
factors driving change.
Assessment: How Are You Smart?
Assessment: How Are You Smart?
Assessments
Ageless Learner provides a learning style manual self-
assessment from Marcia L. Conner that can be printed to
score. Visual, auditory, and tactile and kinesthetic learning
styles are covered. Learning Styles Assessment is
at the top of the list on this page.
How Your Learning Style Affects Your Use of Mnemonics.
This explanation of how the different learners use their learning
style to remember content focuses on visual
learners, auditory learners, and kinesthetic learners. Click

"Memory Improvement" in top-right navigation for
memory aids.
Implementing Change and Overcoming Resistance
Based on well-known management guru J. Kotter’s theories of
what causes resistance, and how to minimize it.
Recognizing Organization Culture in Managing Change
Describes how some changes FIRST require a corporate culture
change.
Ten Megatrends Shaping the World
A review of John Naisbitt's famous 1988 book, “Megatrends”
identifying, 10 macro trends; updated with the
article authors’ more recent trend identification.
The Vark Questionnaire: How Do I Learn Best?
When the learner completes this brief test, the assessment
provides scores for each learning style and
preferred style of the learner: visual, aural, reading and writing,
and kinesthetic. This Web site provides
bulleted lists per preferred learning style describing how to
absorb information, how to study, and how to
perform well on a test.
Top 10 Drivers of Change, 2010 and Beyond
Excellent summary of Business Weeks forecast of 2010 drivers
of change.
Phase 2 - Types of Change

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Task Type: Discussion Board Deliverable Length: 250–300
words
Discuss the following points regarding how to identify forces of
change and their impact:
Identify and discuss 3 examples of routine or transactional
change during your work experience.
Identify and discuss at least 2 examples of transformational
change during your work experience.
Compare and contrast the 2 types of change in terms of the
following:
Importance to the firm
Risk
Opportunity
How many people were impacted

posting?
Course Materials
words with a minimum of 2 scholarly references
You will continue working on your Transformational Change
Management Plan. Complete the following tasks for
Week 2:

Update the previously completed sections based on the
instructor’s feedback.
Create the following new material for Week 2:
change? (240-300 words)
Why is this considered a transformational change?A.
Why can the firm not just keep doing what it has been doing?B.
What is management's role in the transformational change?C.
Are there easier alternatives to accomplish the goal of
remaining competitive?D.
Course Materials
Reading Task: Cawsey, Deszca, Ingols, Chapters 2, 3.
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Task Type: Discussion Board Deliverable Length: 250–300
words

Discuss the following points regarding change efforts and their
results:
Describe a specific change initiative that you participated in
that seemed to work well.
Describe a specific change initiative that you participated in
that did not achieve its intended
objectives.
Compare the 2 initiatives in terms of what happened and why
you think the results were different.
posting?

Course Materials
Phase Resources:
Leadership Champions - Transactional vs. Transformational
Leadership
An in-depth comparison of the two different types of change
and leaders needed to make the change
successful.
Transformational Change
A well respected global consulting firm's description of
transformational change.
Transformational Leadership vs. Transactional Leadership
Compares the different leadership needs given the scope of
change.
Types of Change in Organizations
A good description of types of change and most importantly
how to IDENTIFY what type of change is in
question. In the search box, type "Types of Change in
Organizations" for a link to the article.
What is Transformational Change?

A social scientist's view on what transformational change is,
with a good perspective about the magnitude and
nature of the change, applicable anywhere.
Phase 3 - Change Management Theories
Reading Task: Cawsey, Deszca, Ingols, Chapters 2, 7.
Assignm...
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words with a minimum of 2 scholarly references
You will continue working on your Transformational Change
Management Plan. Complete the following tasks:
Update the previously completed sections based on the
instructor’s feedback.

Week 3: Theories of Change Management (200-300 words)
Discuss at least 3 theories of change management (eg. Kotter,
Lewin, Nadler, action research,
and appreciative inquiry).
A.
Include specific pros and cons of each.B.
What is the best way to ensure the implementation of an
organizational change?C.
Course Materials
Task Type: Discussion Board Deliverable Length: 250-300
words with 1 Peer Review
Primary Task Response: The discussion assignment for this
week will be a review of the Key Assignment
Draft from other students. Your first task is to post your draft to
the discussion area so that other students will
be able to review your work. Attach your document to your
main discussion post, and include any notes that

you feel are appropriate in the post. You are not being graded
on your Key Assignment Draft at this point. The
purpose of this assignment is to help improve the quality of
your Key Assignment.
Responses to Other Students: Review at least 1 other student's
draft report and provide meaningful
Phase Resources:
Appreciative Inquiry: Theory and Critique
Describes Appreciative Inquiry’s Model of Change. Follow the
links to “Information on Appreciative Inquiry”. At
the bottom, is a link to an article titled “Appreciative Inquiry:
Theory and Critique”.
Change Management
A very comprehensive article about managing change. In the
“Theoretical Models” section, click on “popular
theories”, for an historical perspective to theories of managing
change.
Kotter's 8-Step Change Model
Describes Kotter's Model of Change.
Lewin's Change Management Model
Describes Lewin's Model of Change
The Congruence Model
Describes Nadler's Model of Change.

Phase 4 - Change Management Processes
Reading Task: Cawsey, Deszca, Ingols, Chapters 4 - 8.
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feedback. Refrain from generic feedback, such as simply stating
"good job." Your feedback to other students
will be most helpful if you not only point out weak areas but
also offer suggestions for improvement. The best
feedback takes a three-stage approach to identify what was done
well, weaknesses, and areas for
improvement.
Course Materials
Task Type: Individual Project Deliverable Length: 1,000–
1,500 words with a minimum of 4 scholarly
references

Key Assignment First Draft
Content from Weeks 1–3 should be edited to take into account
any instructor or peer feedback from the Phase
4 DB draft.
layoffs of long-term employees.
change?
Week 4: Communication Plan (100–150 words)
Include the following context in the communication plan:
What stakeholders require communication?A.

What will be communicated to them?B.
Who will send the communication?C.
What communication medium will be used?D.
Course Materials
Phase Resources:
Building the Team You Need to Drive Change
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Task Type: Discussion Board Deliverable Length: At least 100
words
Students are expected to post their responses to peers by

Sunday. NOTE: All submission posting times are
based on midnight Central Time.
Summative Discussion Board
Review and reflect on the knowledge you have gained from this
course. Based on your review and reflection,
write at least 3 paragraphs on the following:
What were the most compelling topics learned in this course?
How did participating in discussions help your understanding of
the subject matter? Is anything still
unclear that could be clarified?
What approaches could have yielded additional valuable
information?
The main post should include at least 1 reference to research
sources, and all sources should be cited
using APA format.
about his or her Primary Task Response regarding items you
found to be compelling and enlightening. To help
you with your discussion, please consider the following
questions:
posting?

Course Materials
Task Type: Individual Project Deliverable Length: 1,200–
1,650 words with a minimum of 8 scholarly
references
Key Assignment Final Draft
Describes the importance of and selection of the team needed to
implement transformational change
Hall & Hord Change Principles
A “how to” primer on implementing change SPECIFICALLY in
the education sector, but applicable elsewhere.
In the Managing Change section, click on "Hall & Hord: Change
Principles"
How to Reduce Resistance to Change
Good overview of what resistance to change is all about and
how to reduce it.
Qualities of a Good Six Sigma Change Agent
Lists specific personal and interpersonal skill sets of change
agents.

Resistance to Change
Provides specific actions change leaders can employ to
minimize resistance to change.
Phase 5 - Putting Together Change Mgmt.
Reading Task: Cawsey, Deszca, Ingols, Chapters 2, 9, 10, 11.
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The key assignment final draft should include a comprehensive
transformational change management plan that
will combine tasks from Weeks 1–5.
layoffs of long-term employees.

change?
Week 5: Implementation Plan (200-300 words)
Include the following context in the implementation plan:
Major implementation stepsA.
Key criteria for successB.
Summary of Weeks 1-5C.
The completed document with content from Weeks 1-5 should
be finalized in terms of grammar, formatting,
references, all necessary sections, flow, and complete content.
Course Materials
Phase Resources:
How to Manage and Mitigate Offshore Risks
A broad look at different kinds of off shoring risk, and ways to
mitigate.

Offshore Outsource Risk Mitigation Strategies
A micro look at different kinds of off shoring risk, and ways to
mitigate
Overseas Manufacturing Pros and Cons
Pros and cons and risks of off shoring manufacturing
operations, specifically
Risk Mitigation Strategies
A report on generic risk mitigation ideas.
Risk Mitigation Template
A good worksheet to identify potential risks and ways to
mitigate them. Open the document to view the
template. If a link to the document does not appear, search
“Risk Assessment Template”.
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