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…
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…
Referring to Kotter’s Eight Steps to Leading Change from the text, describe what management must…
Dr John Kotter has written a change model:”The 8 step process for leading change”. Kotter believes there are 8 stages that must be completed:…
Demand for colonoscopy exceeds capacity in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). A small number of innovative VHA facilities have created colonoscopy-training fellowships for nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs). A gastroenterology community of practice (CoP) might provide knowledge sharing and professional networking opportunities for NP and PA colonoscopists, based on assessment of their need for professional activities. A critical appraisal of related literature pointed out key motivational and structural elements of CoPs. Content experts will review the draft survey and the revised survey will be piloted with several non-physician colonoscopists. Using snowball sampling, a needs assessment survey will be conducted to determine if credentialed non-physician endoscopists would be interested in joining a gastroenterology endoscopy CoP and would identify preferences for the structure and delivery of a CoP.…
Leading Change is broken up into three parts. Part one begins by discussing the potential downside of change and the eight errors commonly made during transformation efforts and their consequences. He then goes into detail on the economic and social forces that drive the need for major change in today’s organizations. This is also where Kotter introduces his eight step process for creating change. In Part two Kotter goes into great detail about his eight step process for successful change highlighting what to focus on and avoid at each step of the process. Part three looks at the implications for the 21st century, he goes into detail about the organization of the future and talks about sustaining that success through leadership and lifelong learning.…
Our objective in our phase change lab was to record observations of the increase in temperature (in Celsius) as water changed from solid to liquid to gas over a hot plate. This lab report will discuss quantitative and qualitative data contained in the lab, how energy is related to phase change in water and an elucidation of how melting point and boiling point relate to the physical properties of matter. This paper will basically outline the lab done in class and a way for the teacher to see what was learned from this lab. A real-life situation to this phase change of water is the glaciers that are changing to water due to global warming.…
Change needs to be understood and managed in a way that people can cope effectively with and adjust to. Kotter’s eight step process for leading change has helped organizations lead change in a positive way therefore leading the way to developing life-long learning organizations.…
Which of Kotter’s 8 steps are critical to sustaining change? (You can list multiple steps.) Why do some change leaders fail to properly address sustaining change)…
There are three phases to the change managements processes: preparing for change, managing change, and reinforcing change. When an organization is ready for change they first need to prepare for change. When preparing for change managers need to define their change management strategy. For instance, if an organization is experiencing a rapid growth within the business they need to plan on how to grow the business quickly and effectually. Next are meeting, communication, and preparing the management team for the change. This step is important while in the preproduction process. It is vital to gage how to grow the business, generate ideas, and have meetings on how to tackle different issues that may arise during the growth of the business within the management team. The last step of this stage is to develop a plan on how to grow the business; essentially creating a set of blue prints. During this phase, it is crucial for the management team to think of non-human factors: governmental forces, economy, market, and other outside forces (Akin, Dunford, & Palmer, 2006).…
Kotter identified eight steps that need to be taken in order to manage change successfully. These steps translate the best of change management theories into practice. –…
Abstract: The purpose of this experiment is to study the energy changes associated with the phase changes of water. In this experiment we know the water is gaining energy so we know the heat is going to be positive and we can use the equation MCΔT to find the energy change. The specific heat will be 1 and we just have to measure the water to find the mass and take the temperature before and after we start to find the energy change.…
Change can be viewed as negative or positive depending on how it’s presented. It can be met with resistance probably due to lack of simple oversights, lack of persistence, poor communication, or other more personal vulnerabilities (Bert, Spector, 2010.The goal of the change should be identified before implementing it into the organization. Status reports, evaluations, and periodic surveys are all useful resources for determining the effectiveness of an organizational change (Bert Spector, 2010).…
This paper is an analysis that gives the concepts presented by John P. Kotter’s, “The Heat of Change”, book and the concepts presented by Ivancevich, Konopaske, and Matteson’s, Organizational Behavior and Management text book. Kotter wrote and gave comparative situations on dealing with human behavioral and how to better manage them when presented in an organizational situation. He gave real life stories of events that happened in organizational situation. Kotter showed how the employees and team members became motivated and how they overcame obstacles in his book.…
Kotter’s process of change focuses on the strategic, not tactical level of the change management process (Leban & Stone, 2008). In retrospect, the use of the Kotter’s change model during the implementation of electronic health records at my current employer, Clayton Eye Center could have yielded a better transition and fostered a more positive work…