Complex Change: Presentation 20 May 2005 Harry Truman once said “You issue orders from this office and if you can find out what happens to them after that‚ you’re a better man than I am!” He was talking about the Oval Office rather than the office of the CEO‚ but the analogy holds. Looking at many change projects‚ senior executives often behave as though they believe that life is as straightforward as issuing orders and watching as the world obeys. If that were true‚ the world would be a simpler
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Philosophy Ego Theory and Bundle Theory Derek Parfit’s views on personal identity and the Ego and Bundle Theory are all summarized in his article “Divided Minds and the Nature of Persons”. In his article‚ Parfit explains the distinction between Ego theory and Bundle theory and provides several arguments against Ego Theory. Although it proves to be very difficult to believe the Bundle Theory‚ Parfit’s critique is convincing and well thought out. In order to defend the Bundle Theory of personal identity
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mfl CHANGE w 1 M mBRILLB AND BTBarnOIES Session 4 Planning and implementing change Contents 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 The need for strategy Alternative approaches Process and politics in implementing change Planning and scheduling Towards successful implementation of change ARer you have completed this session you should be able to: appreciate the importance of an implementation strategy in change management recognize when SIS and OD may be inappropriate approaches to planning and managing change
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Organizational Diagnosis 2 Organizational change‚ in theory should be fairly straightforward – upper management mandates a change‚ and lower management and their staff agrees to implement the change‚ no questions asked. However‚ any organization that has attempted to go through any kind of change understands it’s not that simple. The most effective change implementation starts with a diagnosis that is shared by many employees at multiple organizational levels (Spector‚ 2010). Diagnosis
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Driving Change An interview with Ford Motor Company’s JACQUES NASSER The change imperative facing Ford Motor Company was massive: integrate 340‚000 employees separated by fiercely independent fiefdoms spread across 200 countries. Synchronize all teams‚ divisions‚ and regions into one global entity. Instill in all employees the need to think and act as if they owned the whole company. Why? So that Ford can excel in the global economy‚ and satisfy increasingly demanding consumers. How did Ford
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(BRIC Countries). This project would lead to a short-term change in the organization. XYZ‚ Inc.’s plan to expand its business in other BRIC Countries depends on the success of its first international store in Shanghai. The lessons learnt from the opening of first store‚ positive or negative‚ will be applied in the long term expansion of the company in BRIC countries‚ which entails long term changes in the organization. The long term changes for the second phase of international expansion (i.e. in
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Theory X and Theory Y From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia This article may require copy editing for grammar‚ style‚ cohesion‚ tone‚ or spelling. You can assist by editing it. (October 2014) Theory X and Theory Y are theories of human motivation‚ created and developed by Douglas McGregor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in the 1960s‚ that have been used in human resource management‚ organizational behavior‚ organizational communication and organizational development. They describe two contrasting
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Theory X and Theory Y Understanding Team Member Motivation What motivates employees to go to work each morning? Many people get great satisfaction from their work and take great pride in it; Others may view it as a burden‚ and simply work to survive. This question of motivation has been studied by management theorists and social psychologists for decades‚ in attempts to identify successful approaches to management. Social psychologist Douglas McGregor of MIT expounded two contrasting theories
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Task 1: Assessment criterion 2.1 Determine the enthalpy change for the reaction (ΔHfθ) between zinc and copper sulphate solution‚ giving full practical details. Aim To determine the enthalpy change for the reaction between zinc and copper sulphate. Zn (s) + CuSO4 (aq) ZnSO4 (aq) + Cu (s) Introduction In the study of energy (thermodynamics) the system refers to the reacting chemicals (zinc and copper sulphate solution) and the surroundings is everything else (atmosphere
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Case Study: S&S Air Inc. Founders of S&S Air‚ Inc. Mark Sexton and Todd Story recently hired Chris Guthrie to come on board as their financial planner. His job entailed gaining valuable information as to compare how their company was fairing with competing companies in the aircraft manufacturing industry. Through his research‚ Guthrie calculated many ratios through the careful examination of S&S Air’s balance sheet and income statement
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