Assignment
FORMATIVE LEARNING CHECKPOINT 1 -IDENTIFY CHANGE REQUIREMENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
This learning checkpoint allows you to review your skills and knowledge in identifying change requirements and opportunities.
Formative assessment generally takes place at regular intervals before and during training with progressive feedback to improve competence. Formative assessment is assessment for learning: it focuses on the gap between where learners are in their learning and where they need to be to achieve the requirements of the unit under study.
Part A
1. List the most recent significant change to the chosen organisation's structure, processes, technology and/or people.
2. What external factor/s was this change in response to?
3. Explain why team-building is considered an organisational development intervention and critical for change management.
Part B
1. To identify the organisation's objectives, what sources would you consult regarding your chosen organisation?
2. Identify the strategies that your chosen organisation is pursuing in order to meet its organisational objectives and classify them according to the types of corporate and competitive strategies presented in the topic.
Part C
1. As a result of the recent change in your chosen organisation, identify the changes to the structure, work processes and technology, and/or people.
2. Identify the roles of the experts or specialists who could help you to analyse the need for and effects of change on people within your chosen organisation.
Part D
Consider the following scenario in relation to your chosen organisation, then answer the questions.
Scenario
Your manager has asked you to identify the major trends in the external environment that are likely to affect the achievement of the organisational objectives. She also wants to know the internal strength and weaknesses, and how these may affect the organisation's response to the trends.
1. What sources would you consult to research political/legal, economic, sociocultural and technological trends?
2. To research what your major competitor is doing, what sources would you consult?
3. List the steps you would take to conduct a SWOT analysis to identify the organisation's requirements.
4. In developing a priority list of change requirements, what process would you follow?
FORMATIVE LEARNING CHECKPOINT 2 - DEVELOP CHANGE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
This learning checkpoint allows you to review your skills and knowledge in developing a change management strategy.
Part A
1. What techniques and tools did the organisation use to assess the impact of the proposed
Part B
1. What techniques and tools did the organisation use to assess change readiness?
2. You are considering a change in your personal life. This may be a purchase of a new house or a commitment to compete in a half-marathon in Hawaii. Conduct a force field analysis to identify the driving and resisting forces in helping you to make a decision. List the driving and resisting forces for change.
Part C
1. Identify the organisation's change vision. What is it and how has it been communicated to stakeholders?
2. What alternative methods could the organisation have used to communicate its change ?
3. Identify the organisation's change vision. What is it and how has it been communicated to stakeholders.
Part D
1. Review the change implementation plan for your chosen organisation. Consider the components, style and clarity, and level of detail. With the benefit of hindsight and your knowledge from Topic 2, identify how this change plan could be improved.
2. From your personal force field analysis, identify strategies to enable you to increase the driving forces and decrease the resisting forces.
3. Develop a basic change management plan for you to implement your personal change.
FORMATIVE LEARNING CHECKPOINT 3 - IMPLEMENT CHANGE MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
This learning checkpoint allows you to review your skills and knowledge in implementing the change management strategy.
Part A
1. What will help you to identify and plan when meeting stakeholder communication needs, including reporting requirements?
2. What communications methods could you use to communicate with stakeholders that require close management?
3. What communication methods could you use to communicate with stakeholders that need to be kept informed?
4. List the communication methods that your organisation, or the one that you have chosen, uses to implement and embed change.
Part B
1. If members of a team were experiencing issues working together, what types of organisational development interventions could you implement?
2. If you are part of a dedicated change team implementing a major strategic change project with the organisation, whose support would you seek to ensure that training and development needs change activities are effectively implemented and new behaviour embedded?
2. If you are part of a dedicated change team implementing a major strategic change project with the organisation, whose support would you seek to ensure that training and development needs change activities are effectively implemented and new behaviour embedded?
Part C
4. What strategies have been implemented in your organisation's change project to manage barriers and employee resistance?
Part D
1. What change review and evaluation techniques were applied by your chosen organisation?
2. Explain the process for ensuring that corrective actions are developed and incorporated into the change plan.
3. Identify the review and evaluation methods you would use for your personal change plan.
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.