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BUS 661 Change at DuPont (Ash Course)

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• Read the case study Change at DuPont from the end
  of chapter 7 in your text. Answer the following
  questions in a three- to four- page APA style
  paper include outside sources to support your
  answers.
• a. To what extent are the
  following approaches to change embedded in the
  DuPont story (justify your answer, providing
  specific examples)
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• Appreciative inquiry
• Sense-making

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BUS 661 Change Initiatives

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• Find an article that identifies at least one
  reason why organizational change
• initiatives fail in organizations. Summarize the
  article then present your
• opinion. Be sure to provide a complete APA
  citation of the article. Respond to
• at least two of your classmates postings.

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BUS 661 Change Intervention

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•  Complete the following exercise (Exercise 7.2 in
  your text) Choose a current
• issue in your local neighborhood. You will
  figure out how you would design a
• large-scale change intervention program in
  relation to this issue. Answer the
• following questions and respond to at least two
  of your classmates
• postings.

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BUS 661 Change Leader

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• What skills are appropriate for a leader of
  change in a modern organization? How
• do you cultivate them? On reflection, what skills
  do you possess and how do you
• compare with your list of skills? What can you do
  to improve your skills?
• Respond to at least two of your classmates
  postings

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BUS 661 Change Rationales

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• Find two articles about organizations going
  through change. Provide a
• complete APA citation for each article. Answer
  the following questions and
• respond to at least two of your classmates
  postings.
• What is the rationale presented for the
  changes? What are the internal and
• external pressures considered in the change?

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BUS 661 Change Stories

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• Briefly reflect upon an important change you have
  experienced in your
• life. Compare your change to the change stories
  from the beginning of Chapter
• 1.Compare the change stories from the beginning
  of Chapter 1. Answer the
• following questions and respond to at least two
  of your classmates' postings.
• What are the common issues across each story?
• What are the differences?

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BUS 661 Change Stories (Green Mountain Resort)

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• Read the case study Green Mountain Resort
  (Dis)solves the Turnover Problem
• from the end of Chapter 2. Answer the following
  questions in a three page APA
• style paper include outside sources to support
  your answers.
• a. Which of the six change images discussed in
  the chapter can be identified in
• the assumptions about changing turnover that were
  
• held
• by
• Gunter?
• The

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BUS 661 Entire Course (Ash Course)

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• BUS 661 Change at DuPont
• BUS 661 Organizational Change Report- Bridgepoint
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• BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Assignment
  NESTLE
• BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Assignment
  British Airways
• BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Final Paper
• BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change ( Tyco )

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BUS 661 Force Field Analysis

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• Find at least one significant article related to
  either downsizing,
• implementation of a new technology, or a merger
  or acquisition. Provide a
• complete APA citation of the article.
• What are the key driving forces? What are the
  key restraining forces?
• Prepare a force field analysis graph (see
  Figure 5.9 from your text).

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BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Assignment
British Airways

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• BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Assignment
  British Airways
• British Airways
• Read the case study
• The British Airways Swipe Card Debacle from the
  end of chapter 8 in your text. Review the swipe
  card story, drawing on each of the following
  change perspectives discussed in chapters 7 and
  8 organizational development, sense-making,
  change management, contingency, and processual.
  Answer the following questions in a three page
  APA style paper include outside sources to
  support your answers.

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BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Assignment
NESTLE (Ash Course)

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• BUS661 Leading Organizational Change Assignment
  ( NESTLE)
• Nestlé
• Read the case study Nestlé from the end of
  chapter 4 in your text. Answer the following
  questions in a three page APA style paper
  include outside sources to support your answers.
• a. Did Nestlé undergo either first-order and/or
  second-order change according to the case? Answer
  listing examples of types for change from the
  case.

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BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Final Paper

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• BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Final Paper
• Final Paper
• The final assignment for this course is an
  Organizational Change Report.The purpose of the
  Organizational Change Report is for you to
  culminate the learning achieved in the course by
  describing your understanding and application of
  knowledge in the field of organizational change.

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BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change ( Tyco )

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• BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change ( Tyco )
• Tyco
• Read the case study Tyco from the end of chapter
  11 in your text. Answer the following questions
  in a three page APA style paper include outside
  sources to support your answers.
• a. Describe how the turnaround team may have used
  Gerard and Teurfs transformation skills to
  overcome the frustration of employees.

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BUS 660 Week 5 Assignment Theories of Motivation
(2 Papers)

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• Theories of Motivation. The purpose of this
  assignment is to apply the motivation and job
  satisfaction theories to a specific situation.
  Describe the theories and key assumptions on what
  motivates people or makes them satisfied. Apply
  one of the theories to a specific situation
  related to motivation you have witnessed or
  experienced professionally. In your paper
• 1. Discuss how useful this theory is in
  explaining the lack of effort or the high
  performance of employees.

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BUS 661 Organizational Change Report- Bridgepoint
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• Focus of the Organizational Change Report
• 8-10 page paper (excluding appendixes, cover
  page, abstract, and references). The paper should
  focus on Bridgepoint Education.
• Writing the Organizational Change Report
• The Organizational Change Report
• Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in
  length and formatted according to APA style.
  Must include an abstract after the title page
  according to APA style in the approved style
  guide.

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BUS 661 Preventing Resistance

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• Listed below are a number of reasons why people
  may be resistant to a
• change. For each of the reasons, identify at
  least one action that could be
• taken by management to reduce the prospect that
  it will be a significant source
• of resistance (Exercise 6.2 from your text).
  Respond to at least two of your
• classmates postings.
• Reason for
• Resistance
• 
  Proposed

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BUS 661 Productive Failure

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• Sometimes things go wrong and it's not always a
  bad thing. Discuss a time in
• your organizations history when a change process
  failed. Explain what happened
• and what was learned in the process. Respond to
  at least two of your classmates
• postings.

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BUS 661 Restructuring

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• Imagine that you are an employee of a large
  organization about to go through a restructuring.
  Discuss the following issues and respond to at
  least two of your classmates postings.
• What information would you like?
• From whom would you prefer to get this
  information? Why?
• In what format would you prefer to get it
  individually, in a group, through an office memo
  or email, other?

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BUS 661 The Vision Wow Factor

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• Find the vision statement of five different
  companies that you are interested in. You can get
  these from either annual reports or from online
  searches. You may also use the vision statements
  listed in Table 9.4 of your text. to the
  following and respond to at least two of your
  classmates postings.
• Choose and paraphrase two different frameworks
  from Table 9.3 in your text.
• Assess the vision statements in relation to the
  two frameworks.
• What are you conclusions about each of the
  visions? Do they have the wow factor? Why or
  why not?

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BUS 661 Toxic Handlers

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• Read Table 11.5 from your text about toxic
  handlers. Select one of the following discussion
  focuses (a, b, or c) depending on your own
  experiences.
• A. Have you ever been or observed a
  toxic handler? If so, compose your discussion
  around these questions
• How did this emerge?
• How long did it last?
• What were your/their greatest challenges?
• How did you/they manage the burnout factor?

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BUS 661 Vision and Organizational Change

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• Locate one journal article that discusses vision
  in relation to specific companies going through
  organizational change. The change could be
  growth, decline, or some form of restructuring.
  Provide a complete APA citation of the article.
• How does each commentator link vision to the
  change?
• Is vision an explanatory variable for
  understanding why a change succeeded or failed?

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