Assignment- Building Your Management Skills: How to Bring About a Change at Work
To bring about a desired organizational change at work:
1. Establish a sense of urgency. Create a sense of urgency. For example, present employees with a (fictitious) analyst's report describing the firm's imminent demise.
2. Mobilize commitment through joint diagnoses of problems. Create a task force to diagnose the problems facing the department or the company. This can help to produce a shared understanding of what they can and must improve.
3. Create a guiding coalition. It's never easy to implement big changes alone. Therefore, create a "guiding coalition" of influential people. They'll act as missionaries and implementers.
4. Develop and communicate a shared vision of what you see coming from the change. Keep the vision simple (for example, "We will be faster than anyone at satisfying customer needs."), and lead by example.
5. Help employees make the change. Eliminate impediments. For example, do current policies or procedures make it difficult to act? Do intransigent managers discourage employees from acting?
6. Aim first for attainable short-term accomplishments. Use the credibility from these to make additional changes.
7. Reinforce the new ways of doing things with changes to the company's systems and procedures. For example, use new appraisal systems and incentives to reinforce the desired new behaviors.
8. Monitor and assess progress. In brief, this involves comparing where the company or department is with where it should be.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.