Assignment:
Create a three- to four- page paper (excluding the title and reference pages), reflect on an important professional change that you have experienced. Compare your change story to one of the stories. Answer the following questions and support your thoughts with at least two scholarly sources.
In your paper you must:
• Describe your change story
• Discuss the common issues and lessons present in both stories.
• Identify and discuss the embedded lesson found in the four change stories
• Describe how you might use the lessons as a solutions template during future change strategies. Your paper should include in-text citations and references for at least two scholarly sources, in addition to the course text, and it should be formatted according to APA style
The first concerns the turnaround of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. The second concerns the new organizational model introduced at Sears Holdings in an attempt to restore falling sales and profits. The third concerns innovative efforts to restore falling sales and a fading brand at J. C. Penney, a retailer.
Forbes School of Business Faculty
References:
Leeman, T. (2002) Project management: Managing the chaos of change. Journal of Business Strategy, 23(5), 11-15. doi: 10.1108/eb040268
Palmer, I., Dunford, R., & Akin, G. (2009) Managing organizational change: A multiple perspectives approach (2nd ed.). New York: McGraw Hill.
Required Resources
Palmer, I., Dunford, R., & Buchanan, D. (2017). Managing organizational change: A multiple perspectives approach (3rd ed.).
Recommended Resources
Article
Kotter, J. P. (2012, November). Accelerate! (cover story). Harvard Business Review, 90(11), 43-58