Large-scale change at WSSC Executive summary This report is about Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC). WSSC was created in 1918 by the Maryland General Assembly to plan‚ construct‚ operate and maintain water and sewer services for residents and businesses in Maryland’s Montgomery and Prince George’s countries. The bad performance of the company despite of its monopoly situation led the government to warn the company. They had to change their way of operating and this was
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Personal Change: Organizational Interventions Personal Change: Organizational Interventions As competition pressures rise‚ the necessity for change increases within organizations. The need for better performance‚ quality‚ and service flexibility drives the pressure for executives to continuously look for best practice. When change is put into motion‚ it is not the actual change that makes or breaks the outcome; it is the implementation process that provides the results. Organizational
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BARRIER TO SUSTAINING CHANGE • 21 oktober‚ 2012 • I kategorin organisational development • ← Till bloggen This essay will be based on the assumption that change is carried out‚ facilitated and/or resisted by people. On the same premises‚ people also make sure that change is sustained. I will start this essay by introducing how different views of authors could be molded together and through that introduce culture and the cultural heritage as a potential barrier to sustaining change. I will then turn
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PART A CHANGE is unavoidable in order to remain competitive in today’s fast-paced market environment. Management guru‚ Tom Peters puts it that ‘change or die’ has been the bottom line for countless firms (Jick & Peiperl‚ 2011). Change can be large or small‚ evolutionary or revolutionary‚ sought after or resisted (Hayes‚ 2010) and is a general feature of organisational life‚ both at an operational and strategic level (Todnem‚ 2005). Burnes (1992) expressed that ‘change management is not a distinct
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Creating change within organizations “The primary objective of change is to ensure the future competitive sustainability of an organization” (Borkowski‚ 2005‚ p. 391). The phases in organizational change are unavoidable‚ regardless if they have positive or negative results. A case study can demonstrate that a planned organizational change process will lead to the change success. In this paper‚ the case presented will demonstrate the importance of completing and implementing the phases of this
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Performance Excellence and Organizational Change CHAPTER Performance Excellence Profile: Park Place Lexus1 At its two locations in Piano and Grapevine‚ Texas‚ Park Place Lexus (PPL) sells and services new and pre-owned Lexus vehicles‚ and sells Lexus parts to the wholesale and retail markets. PPL is part of the family of Park Place Dealerships (PPD)‚ which includes eight dealerships with 12 franchises. In 1994‚ PPL began benchmarking business practices outside of the automobile industry
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Code: HRM3120 Title: Organizational Change Assignment 1: Reflective Review Prepared by: Joshua Mathias Word count: 1500 words ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES AND MODELS USED FOR CHANGES Table of contents Introduction -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 Description of the Situation----------------------------- ------------------------------ 3 • The Leadership of change ------------------------------------------------------
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is to interpret how managers can change organisational culture and how does it work. Managers can change organisational culture through communication and management strategies. This essay may introduce the detail about changing organisational culture. Most scholars think that changing organisational culture is difficult; however a few people think it is easy to change organisational culture. As Chu (2003) stated that organizational culture is contributed to change. In his opinion‚ organisational
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Strategic organizational change: the role of leadership‚ learning‚ motivation and productivity Steven H. Appelbaum Faculty of Commerce and Administration‚ Concordia University‚ Montreal‚ Quebec‚ Canada Normand St-Pierre Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce‚ Montreal‚ Quebec‚ Canada William Glavas Pratt and Whitney Canada‚ Montreal‚ Quebec‚ Canada Presents an overview of strategic organizational change (SOC) and its managerial impact on leadership‚ learning‚ motivation and productivity. Theoretical
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Change and Culture Case Study I Darlinda Smith HCS/514 October 15‚ 2012 Steve Kovak‚ MHA Change and Culture Case Study I During the past decade the hospital industry has made profound organizational changes‚ including the extensive consolidation of hospital system through merger and the formation hospital systems (Evans & Gertler‚ 2012). The rules of health care are changing. Growth is not about just getting bigger. It is about developing all of the components needed for coordinated
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