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BUS 661 Entire Course

• BUS 661 Change at DuPontBUS 661 Organizational
  Change Report- Bridgepoint Ed.BUS 661 Leading
  Organizational Change Assignment NESTLEBUS 661
  Leading Organizational Change Assignment British
  AirwaysBUS 661 Leading Organizational Change
  Final PaperBUS 661 Leading Organizational Change
  ( Tyco )BUS 661 Change InitiativesBUS 661 Force
  Field AnalysisBUS 661 Change StoriesBUS 661
  Change Stories (Green Mountain Resort)BUS 661
  Change RationalesBUS 661 Preventing Resistance

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BUS 661 Change at DuPont

• 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)
  OD Appreciative
  inquiry Sense-making

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BUS 661 Change Initiatives

• 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

• omplete 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. a. How
  many people would it make sense to involve?

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BUS 661 Change Leader

• 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 Rationale

• Find two articles about organizations going
  through change. Provide acomplete 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 (Green Mountain Resort)

• 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 wereheld by

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BUS 661 Change Stories

• Briefly reflect upon an important change you have
  experienced in your life. Compare your change to
  the change stories from the beginning of
  Chapter1.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?
• Of the change "lessons" outlined in Table 1.1,
  which of these are present in these stories?
  Which are absent? What are the implications of
  this?

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BUS 661 Force Field Analysis

• 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).
• Think about how to implement the change by
  increasing drivers or reducing restraints.

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BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change ( 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.b. Tyco used vignettes
  to communicate changes in ethical behavior. Write
  a vignette that could be used by Tyco to assist
  in overcoming the cultural change barriers that
  companies like Tyco faced. What international
  issues might need to be taken into account in
  writing these vignettes?

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BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Assignment
British Airways

• BUS661 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

• 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

• BUS661Leading 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 Organizational Change Report- Bridgepoint
Ed

• 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 ReportThe
  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

• 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
  ActionDislike of change Discomfort with
  uncertainty

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BUS 661 Productive Failure

• 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 happenedand what was learned in the
  process. Respond to at least two of your
  classmates postings.

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BUS 661 Restructuring

• 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

• 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.

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BUS 661 Toxic Handlers

• 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?

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BUS 661 Vision and Organizational Change

• 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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