MGT 435 Innovative Educator/mgt435.com

1
MGT 435 Innovative Educator/mgt435.com
2
MGT 435 Innovative Educator

• MGT 435 Entire Course (Ash)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.mgt435.com
• MGT 435 Week 1 DQ 1 Examples of Organizational
  Change
• MGT 435 Week 1 DQ 2 Implementing Organizational
  Change
• MGT 435 Week 1 Quiz
• MGT 435 Week 2 DQ 1 Innovation
• MGT 435 Week 2 DQ 2 Change Models
• MGT 435 Week 2 Quiz
• MGT 435 Week 3 DQ 1 Tools of Organizational
  Change
• MGT 435 Week 3 DQ 2 Changes at the Top
• MGT 435 Week 3 Assignment Change Model
• MGT 435 Week 3 Quiz

3
MGT 435 Innovative Educator

• MGT 435 Week 1 DQ 1 Examples of Organizational
  Change (Ash)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.mgt435.com
• 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.

4
MGT 435 Innovative Educator

• MGT 435 Week 1 DQ 2 Implementing Organizational
  Change (Ash)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.mgt435.com
• 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 Staces Four Levels
  of Change

5
MGT 435 Innovative Educator

• MGT 435 Week 1 Quiz (Ash)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.mgt435.com
• Week 1
• 1. 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?

6
MGT 435 Innovative Educator

• MGT 435 Week 2 DQ 1 Innovation (Ash)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.mgt435.com
• 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.

7
MGT 435 Innovative Educator

• MGT 435 Week 2 DQ 2 Change Models (Ash)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.mgt435.com
• Change Models. Select and compare two of the
  following change models environment-industry-orga
  nization 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.

8
MGT 435 Innovative Educator

• MGT 435 Week 2 Quiz (Ash)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.mgt435.com
• 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 companys 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 Lewins
  Force-Field Analysis to change resistance,
  change is the result of
• 6. Question The task of
  preparing people for organizational change
  typically falls upon

9
MGT 435 Innovative Educator

• MGT 435 Week 3 Assignment Change Model (Ash)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.mgt435.com
• 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. Youve just been put in charge of the
  companys 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.

10
MGT 435 Innovative Educator

• MGT 435 Week 3 DQ 1 Tools of Organizational
  Change (Ash)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.mgt435.com
• Tools of Organizational Change. Select one of the
  following tools the nine steps in Ackerman and
  Andersons roadmap for change, Cummings and
  Worleys 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.

11
MGT 435 Innovative Educator

• MGT 435 Week 3 DQ 2 Changes at the Top (Ash)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.mgt435.com
• Changes at the Top. View this video about Apples
  leadership, Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO.
  Explain what impact you think the loss of Steve
  Jobs will have on each the companys primary
  stakeholder groups customers, employees, and
  investors. In what ways to you think Tim Cooks
  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.

12
MGT 435 Innovative Educator

• MGT 435 Week 3 Quiz (Ash)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.mgt435.com
• 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
  (1960s-1980s)

13
MGT 435 Innovative Educator

• MGT 435 Week 4 DQ 1 Personal Experiences (Ash)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.mgt435.com
• 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.

14
MGT 435 Innovative Educator

• MGT 435 Week 4 DQ 2 Failures of Change (Ash)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.mgt435.com
• 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.

15
MGT 435 Innovative Educator

• MGT 435 Week 4 Quiz (Ash)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.mgt435.com
• 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

16
MGT 435 Innovative Educator

• MGT 435 Week 5 DQ 1 Partnerships (Ash)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.mgt435.com
• Partnerships. View the Malcolm Gladwell video,
  Malcolm Gladwell on Innovation, about todays
  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
  youve 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

17
MGT 435 Innovative Educator

• MGT 435 Week 5 DQ 2 Organizational Learning (Ash)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.mgt435.com
• 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.

18
MGT 435 Innovative Educator

• MGT 435 Week 5 Final Assignment Kotters 8 Step
  Approach (Ash)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.mgt435.com
• 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 Kotters
  8-Step Approach.
• Include the following sections headings and
  additional sections as needed
• 1. Introduction
• 2. Company Overview
• 3. Diagnosis
• 4. Kotters 8-Step Approach
• 5. Conclusion

19
MGT 435 Innovative Educator

• MGT 435 Week 5 Quiz (Ash)
• For more course tutorials visit
• www.mgt435.com
• WEEK 5 Quiz
• 1. 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 Rowdens (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 Senges
  Parable of the Boiled Frog is

20
MGT 435 Innovative Educator