Erika Gaddist MNGT 5590 Organizational Behavior Integrative Paper Dr. Victoria Bohrer March 1‚ 2011 Introduction John P. Kotter’s “Leading Change” is the quintessential book for any organization looking to successfully bring about change in the workplace. As many of us know‚ change is never easy‚ but Leading Change helps by offering a plan of action. Leading Change has been used by many organizations‚ both large and small as a road map‚ to establish new policies successfully and with minimal
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T I O N www.hbr.org Most change initiatives fail. Yours don’t have to. Lead Change— Successfully‚ 3rd Edition Included with this collection: 2 The Hard Side of Change Management by Harold L. Sirkin‚ Perry Keenan‚ and Alan Jackson 15 Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail by John P. Kotter 26 Cracking the Code of Change by Michael Beer and Nitin Nohria 37 Managing Change: The Art of Balancing by Jeanie Daniel Duck Product 1908 Collection Overview Seventy percent
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number UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF TEAMS AND THE FEATURES OF TEAM ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDING THE ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES 1. How does a team differ from a group? Give 3 examples of the differences. (3 marks) hell 2. Leading the team is an important team role. Briefly describe 2 other roles that members of a team might fill using a recognised model (2 marks) 3. Describe the 4 stages in team development (4 marks) R6434c v2 13.01.11 4. Briefly describe
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different internal and external messaging tools. Corporate Messaging: Internal & External Nayar leveraged technology to facilitate corporate transparency‚ trust‚ the flow of information‚ and he empowered his employees to take responsibility for leading change and innovation. He did this through the various implementations of new internal messaging tools which include: the U&I portal‚ MyBlueprint portal‚ and the Local Financial Information Application (LFIA). The U&I portal began as a
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Executive Leadership Summary LDR 535 - Leading Change Executive Leadership Summary With change comes resistance in many forms. The job of the consultant is to help the organization move past the excuses for why there is a need for change‚ and focus on how to implement the change to ensure satisfaction with the departments of the organization after the change occurs. The consultant must predict certain resistance as well as uncover potential resistance from the parties involved with the change
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Natural Devastation The largest earthquake in 40 years shifted huge geological plates beneath the Indian Ocean on Dec. 26‚ 2004‚ causing a immense and abrupt displacement of millions of tons of water. Indonesia villages closest to the epicenter were swamped within minutes‚ while elsewhere the waves radiated outward‚ making landfall at speeds topping 500 mph (www.cbsnews.com). The phenomenon we call tsunami is a series of large waves of extremely long wavelength and period usually generated by
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this situation pollution is a murderer. As human beings we are well intentioned and have our hearts in the right place‚ however human error has played a devastating role on our planet. There have been several oil spills however the most harmful disaster was the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill on April 20th‚ 2010 until July 15th 2010. For a total of 87 days more then 200 million gallons of oil was forced into the Gulf of Mexico‚ which made it
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LEADING TEAMS EVALUATE HOW EFFECTIVELY THE ORGANISATION MANAGES INDIVIDUALS TO ACHIEVE ORGANISATUIONAL GOALS AND OBJECTIVES 1.1 Goals and objectives provides the organisation with a blue print that determines a course of action and aids them in preparing them for the future changes. In my organisation we set clear defined goals and objectives. These goals and objectives informed the employees where the organisation is going and how it plan to get there
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over-managed and under-led‚ there is need for a combination of strong leadership and competent management as a premise (前提)for significant‚ successful and sustainable change (Kotter‚ 1990). Ways to effectively lead change: Kotter’s checklist(1995) for leading change: (eight- step checklist ) 1. establishing a sense of urgency- unfreezing‚ alerting members to
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1. Identify the author’s mission (task and purpose) in writing this book. The author’s purpose in writing this book was to explain the role of the ‘leader’ in the Marine Corps. To accomplish this the author used examples of corps values‚ ethos‚ individual courage and unit spirit. 2. What part of the book was the most effective in accomplishing the author’s mission? What part of the book was the least effective? The part of the book that I think is most effective at accomplishing the
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