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MGT 435 Entire Course (Ash)For more course tutorials visit
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MGT 435 Week 1 DQ 1 Examples of Organizational ChangeMGT 435 Week 1 DQ 2 Implementing Organizational ChangeMGT 435 Week 1 QuizMGT 435 Week 2 DQ 1 InnovationMGT 435 Week 2 DQ 2 Change ModelsMGT 435 Week 2 QuizMGT 435 Week 3 DQ 1 Tools of Organizational ChangeMGT 435 Week 3 DQ 2 Changes at the TopMGT 435 Week 3 Assignment Change ModelMGT 435 Week 3 Quiz
MGT 435 Innovative Educator
MGT 435 Week 1 DQ 1 Examples of Organizational Change (Ash)For more course tutorials visit
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Examples of Organizational Change. View the Social Media Revolution video. We have all watched organizations around us change in response to technology, legislation, consumer demand, and other factors. Provide an example of an organization that has changed for the better and how this transition benefited its customers, employees, and investors. Review several of your peers’ posts. Discuss how and why these changes have occurred, with at least two of your peers.
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MGT 435 Week 1 DQ 2 Implementing Organizational Change (Ash)For more course tutorials visit
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Implementing Organizational Change. This post should be at least 200 words in length. Select one of the following approaches to understanding or implementing organizational change. Summarize this approach. Provide an example of how this information could be useful to an organization. Review several of your peers’ posts. Discuss any similar or opposing perspectives you have, with at least two of your peers. Take care to be professional and polite even if your beliefs or viewpoints differ. Dunphy and Stace’s Four Levels of Change
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MGT 435 Week 1 Quiz (Ash)For more course tutorials visit
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Week 11. Question : Which of the following is not the case with regard to climate
change issues and company competiveness? 2. Question : Compared to reactive change, proactive changes initiated by
organization leaders . . . 3. Question : Which of the following is a key factor in allowing a small
business to remain competitive? 4. Question : Which of the following frameworks of effective organizational
change focuses on the ethical behavior of organizational members and groups?
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MGT 435 Week 2 DQ 1 Innovation (Ash)For more course tutorials visit
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Innovation. View the Seth Godin video about innovation, Ideas that Spread, Win. Think of an innovative company and explain how its ability to adapt has enabled the organization to remain competitive in its industry. Review several of your peers’ posts. Discuss with at least two of your peers how these changes impacted employees or other organizational stakeholders.
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MGT 435 Week 2 DQ 2 Change Models (Ash)For more course tutorials visit
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Change Models. Select and compare two of the following change models: environment-industry-organization contingency, organizational life-cycle, action research model, eight-step approach, appreciative inquiry. Identify the pros and cons of the two models you selected. Review several of your peers’ posts. Discuss any similar or opposing perspectives you have, with at least two of your peers. Take care to be professional and polite even if your beliefs or viewpoints differ.
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MGT 435 Week 2 Quiz (Ash)For more course tutorials visit
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WEEK 2 Quiz 1. Question : “Organizational Inertia” refers to 2. Question : Which organizational change model stresses the importance of
applying a historical analysis of changes occurring over the course of a company’s development?
3. Question : Stage 5 of “The Development Life-Cycle of Organizations” is known as
4. Question : Second-order (discontinuous) changes are 5. Question : According to Lewin’s “Force-Field Analysis “to change
resistance, change is the result of 6. Question : The task of preparing people for organizational change
typically falls upon
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MGT 435 Week 3 Assignment Change Model (Ash)For more course tutorials visit
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Change Model Assignment. Imagine that you are an executive for XYZ, Inc., a high-end retail chain that sells luxury watches, jewelry, and hand bags. You’ve just been put in charge of the company’s first international expansion, opening a store in Shanghai, China. This will be a short-term, small-scale change for the organization. After one year, you will be expected to begin opening additional stores in Brazil, Russia, India, and China (also known as the BRIC countries). This will be a long-term, large-scale change.
In 3-5 pages, explain which change model you would follow for the short-term change and which you would follow for the long-term change. Provide rationale for your decision and discuss the effects that these changes would have on the employees, managers, and executives within the organization.
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MGT 435 Week 3 DQ 1 Tools of Organizational Change (Ash)For more course tutorials visit
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Tools of Organizational Change. Select one of the following tools: the nine steps in Ackerman and Anderson’s roadmap for change, Cummings and Worley’s five dimensions of leading and managing change, or the three components of organizational change. Explain how a leader could use this tool in guiding an organizational change. Review several of your peers’ posts. Respond to two peers who did not choose the same tool as you. Discuss the similarities and differences between the tools.
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MGT 435 Week 3 DQ 2 Changes at the Top (Ash)For more course tutorials visit
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Changes at the Top. View this video about Apple’s leadership, Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO. Explain what impact you think the loss of Steve Jobs will have on each the company’s primary stakeholder groups: customers, employees, and investors. In what ways to you think Tim Cook’s leadership might change Apple? Review several of your peers’ posts. Discuss any similar or opposing perspectives you have, with at least two of your peers. Take care to be professional and polite even if your beliefs or viewpoints differ.
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MGT 435 Week 3 Quiz (Ash)For more course tutorials visit
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Week 3 quiz 1. Question : True or false? The type of intervention that will be most
effective is dependent upon the particular organizational dimensions. 2. Question : According to the “Stakeholder Matrix,” if the stakeholder is
assessed as “Non-Supportive,” which of the following strategies should be used? 3. Question : When undertaking “stakeholder analysis” for preparing to
manage the political dimensions of change, involving different individuals across the organization serves to make the process
4. Question : True or false? The “Functional Hierarchy” organizational structure was most prevalent in the technological era (1960’s-1980’s)
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MGT 435 Week 4 DQ 1 Personal Experiences (Ash)For more course tutorials visit
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Personal Experiences. View the video You Can Be Good at Change. Think of an organizational change that you experienced. Describe how you were impacted by the change. What could the leadership have done to make the transition more successful? Cite one or more change models to support your assertion. Review several of your peers’ posts. Compare your experiences with at least two peers and identify lessons you can apply to future organizational changes.
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MGT 435 Week 4 DQ 2 Failures of Change (Ash)For more course tutorials visit
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Failures of Change. Organizational change is not always successful. Identify factors that can cause change initiatives to fail and the five pillars that can cause them to succeed. Highlight an organization that failed to adapt and evaluate which of these factors and pillars were demonstrated by this organization. Review several of your peers’ posts. Discuss any similar or opposing perspectives you have, with at least two of your peers. Take care to be professional and polite even if your beliefs or viewpoints differ.
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MGT 435 Week 4 Quiz (Ash)For more course tutorials visit
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WEEK 4 Quiz 1. Question : “Needs-based positioning” refers to 2. Question : Airline companies that attempt to improve customer relations
by training their flight attendants, but not ticketing agents, are specifically guilty of 3. Question : The skills, knowledge, and experience of individuals or a
workforce with regard to their value and costs as invested by an organization is known as
4. Question : True or false? According to Fisher and Taplan (2002), there is only one primary reason why organizational change programs fail
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MGT 435 Week 5 DQ 1 Partnerships (Ash)For more course tutorials visit
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Partnerships. View the Malcolm Gladwell video, Malcolm Gladwell on Innovation, about today’s customers desiring partnerships. How does employee empowerment aid in building partnerships between companies and their customers? Provide an example from your experience as an employee or customer. Construct your answer from the theories you’ve learned. Review several of your peers’ posts. Compare your experiences with at least two peers and identify lessons you can apply in your future work
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MGT 435 Week 5 DQ 2 Organizational Learning (Ash)For more course tutorials visit
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Organizational Learning. Evaluate the importance of organizational learning. Provide examples of how learning and change can impact one another. Review several of your peers’ posts. Discuss any similar or opposing perspectives you have, with at least two of your peers. Take care to be professional and polite even if your beliefs or viewpoints differ.
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MGT 435 Week 5 Final Assignment Kotter’s 8 Step Approach (Ash)For more course tutorials visit
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Focus of the Final Paper Think of an organization you have worked for or one with which you are very
familiar. Diagnose the need for change and present a plan to transform the organization, utilizing Kotter’s 8-Step Approach.
Include the following sections headings and additional sections as needed:1. Introduction2. Company Overview3. Diagnosis4. Kotter’s 8-Step Approach5. Conclusion
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MGT 435 Week 5 Quiz (Ash)For more course tutorials visit
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WEEK 5 Quiz1. Question : Of the following, which is one of the most serious liabilities of
the traditional, hierarchical organizational structure, as opposed to the modern, more decentralized approach?
2. Question : Which of the following represents a “soft” dimension of change?
3. Question : In Rowden’s (2009) four traits of learning organizations, continuous planning, reflection, and adjustment exemplifies
4. Question : The concept of a “learning organization” was introduced by 5. Question : The point of Senge’s “Parable of the Boiled Frog” is
MGT 435 Innovative Educator
MGT 435 Innovative Educator