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• ASHFORD BUS 661 Change at DuPont

• ASHFORD BUS 661 Change Initiatives

• 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

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

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• ASHFORD BUS 661 Change Intervention

• ASHFORD BUS 661 Change Leader

• 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 alarge-scale change intervention program
  in relation to this issue. Answer the following
  questions and respond to at least two of your
  classmates postings.

• 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 youcompare 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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• ASHFORD BUS 661 Change Rationales

• ASHFORD BUS 661 Change Stories (Green Mountain
  Resort)

• Find two articles about organizations going
  through change. Provide acomplete APA citation
  for each article. Answer the following questions
  andrespond to at least two of your classmates
  postings.

• 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 APAstyle paper include outside
  sources to support your answers.

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• ASHFORD BUS 661 Change Stories

• ASHFORD BUS 661 Force Field Analysis

• Briefly reflect upon an important change you have
  experienced in yourlife. Compare your change to
  the change stories from the beginning of
  Chapter1.Compare the change stories from the
  beginning of Chapter 1. Answer thefollowing
  questions and respond to at least two of your
  classmates' postings.

• Find at least one significant article related to
  either downsizing,implementation of a new
  technology, or a merger or acquisition. Provide
  acomplete APA citation of the article.

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• ASHFORD BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change
  Assignment British Airways

• ASHFORD BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change
  Assignments NESTLE

• 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.

• 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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• ASHFORD BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change
  Final Paper

• ASHFORD BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change

• 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.

• 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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• ASHFORD BUS 661 Organizational Change Report
  Bridge point Ed

• ASHFORD BUS 661 Preventing Resistance

• Focus of the Organizational Change Report8-10
  page paper (excluding appendixes, cover page,
  abstract, and references). The paper should focus
  on Bridgepoint Education.
• Writing the Organizational Change ReportThe
  Organizational Change Report

• Listed below are a number of reasons why people
  may be resistant to achange. For each of the
  reasons, identify at least one action that could
  betaken by management to reduce the prospect
  that it will be a significant sourceof
  resistance (Exercise 6.2 from your text).
  Respond to at least two of yourclassmates
  postings.

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• ASHFORD BUS 661 Productive Failure

• ASHFORD BUS 661 Restructuring

• 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.

• 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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• ASHFORD BUS 661 the Vision

• ASHFORD BUS 661 Toxic Handlers

• 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.

• 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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• ASHFORD BUS 661 Visions 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?
• How would you rate the tone of the article in
  relation to vision positive, neutral, or
  negative?

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