Managing Organisational Change
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Term 1 - 2013 e-Course Profile
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Referencing Style
All submissions for this course must use the Harvard (author-date) referencing style. Details can be obtained here. For further information, see the Assessment Tasks below.
Assessment Tasks
WRITTEN ASSESSMENT
Assessment Title
Written Assessment - Essay
Task Description
Assessment details for ALL students
ASSESSMENT ITEM 1—SHORT RESPONSE QUESTIONS
Due date:
1pm AEST, Thursday, Week 4
Weighting:
25%
Length:
Maximum 1500 words, presented in Essay
ASSESSMENT
1
Format
Reference
Author-date style only
style:
THIS ASSESSMENT ITEM IS FOR HRMT19020 FOR TERM ONE
2013.
Topic background: What changes in organisations?
Navigating through difficult or changing circumstances often requires managers to lead and foster new and better ways of doing things. Innovative organisations endeavour to find successful ways of managing change so as to keep the competitive advantage in today’s modern business environment (Schermerhorn et al. 2011).
Assessment task:
1. Required reading: Chapter 3 - Why organisations change? IN Managing
Organizational Change: a multiple perspectives approach (Palmer, Dunford, &
Akin 2009).
2. Students are to answer two (2) questions which appear below
3. Each answer must be at least 750 words each in a short essay format. Each question is to be answered on a separate page.
4. Each response must have a minimum of 3 references, one must be from chapter 3 and the other two may be from any other scholarly source (that is: