Assignment:
Case 1 A large public-sector organization was undergoing a difficult organizational transition as the result of a merger. There was extensive duplication of effort, senior leadership was in conflict, and there was no authoritative vision of the right way forward. The incumbent CEO spent limited time engaging key stakeholders, did not discuss options fully with the board, and did not invest working time with the design team. Support for the design process consequently dropped to dangerous levels. Eventually, the chief executive resigned. As the new CEO, what would you do to redesign the team and empower them to fully understand the seriousness of the issue and implement corrective measures? Apply the steps of the decision-making process to solve this issue.
Case 2 A large petroleum company had announced a change in executive leadership with a new CEO. As the vice president of operations, you are required to establish a new business improvement initiative (BII) team to initiate a significant enterprise cost reduction program. Driven by dramatic cost pressures and a narrowing revenue stream across the oil and gas industry, the BII team should identify headcount reduction as an early cost savings win and set up a program to restructure and facilitate the organization design, employee selection, and transition management phases. As part of the project initiation, leaders are to design and customize discrete process steps to facilitate the organization design, selection, and transition processes. The program should be data-driven to provide a transparent, consistent, and reusable approach and support systems for workforce reduction and alignment efforts. What kinds of internal and external challenges do you think you might experience in implementing the program?
Your answer must be a minimum of one page per case study. You are required to use at least your textbook as source material for your response.
All sources used, including the textbook, must be referenced; paraphrased and quoted material must have accompanying citations.
All citations should be in APA format, and the paper should be formatted in accordance to APA style.