Assignment: Planning
This assignment will assess competency : DEVELOP planning for organizational performance.
Directions
Complete Planning.
In this assignment, address one of two scenarios. As you address one of the scenarios, support your answers with research from scholarly sources (using APA citation). Make sure you think about your audience. Choose the appropriate tone and approach for them. Consider factors such as their profession, education, level of experience, biases, etc. These all factor into how they need you to communicate with them.
You are teaching a management class at a local community college. Anne is a sophomore who is also a successful business owner. She enrolled in your class in order to improve her management skills. She sends you an email asking about planning. Specifically, she asks about the role of planning in managing an organization. Include in your response to her:
- a discussion on strategic, operational, and business unit plans and how they relate to planning for an organization.
- at least one example of a generic change model (this will be taken from scholarly journal articles) with an example or scenario to show how it works
- a discussion on organizational change and the role that planning plays in the process of change
- at least three strategies for overcoming resistance to change
Use at least three scholarly or professional sources in the scenario you select. Do not use the text book as a primary source. Write with your audience in mind. Your citation must be in APA. Double space your submission. Each scenario should be 600 words.