Organizational Change Project Nursing 688‚ Organization of Nursing and Health Care Delivery Systems George Mason University November 17‚ 2011 The hospital where I have dedicated my twelve year nursing career has gone through a massive change. When I started working there in 1999‚ it was a small‚ independent 168 bed community not-for-profit hospital. The expectations of healthcare today were and continue to be a costly venture to a non-corporate facility‚ which is why the hospital was struggling
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The two companies that have undergone similar‚ and fairly substantial‚ changes in recent years are Wal-Mart and General Motors (GM). Both are established publicly traded companies that are typically considered blue chip stocks. However‚ both have made the major decision in recent years to undergo corporate restructuring. In 2009‚ an organizational change was announced by Wal-Mart. It was the restructuring of Wal-Mart’s global sourcing team to leverage the scale of its global merchandising operations
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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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and can cause havoc to all involved in any organization. One myth is that change is "bad". Change itself is neither good nor bad‚ only the responses and outcomes of change can be considered good or bad. Change is unavoidable and essential in any industry. Without change organizations would be left behind and lose their competitive advantages. This paper will discuss the description of a home health care company and the plan to implement a service that they had in place but has not been active within
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Today’s business environment requires organizations to undergo change almost on a daily basis in order to remain competitive. These changes are typically unplanned and gradual. The content or what to change that I identified in my personal case is the shipping method for service parts that are exported to Europe. This particular type of change is referred to as an evolutionary change which is an ongoing‚ evolving process. The process of changing the shipping method for export service parts is with
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University of Phoenix Material Personality Reflection Using the textbook‚ the University Library‚ the Internet‚ and/or other resources‚ answer the following questions. Your responses to each question will vary but overall should be 700- to 1‚050-words in length. 1. How would you define personality? There are many different ways that people are referenced and categorized. People are lumped into groups based off of gender‚ race‚ economic background and even social background
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Organizational Design Shirlie Jones HCS 514 July 22‚ 2013 Lisa Keener Organizational Design The organizational design depends on the objectives and strategy of the organization. In a centralized structure the top layer of management has most of the decision- making power and has tight control over departments and divisions. In a decentralized structure the decision making power is distributed and the departments and divisions may have a different degree of independence (BusinessDictionary
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Strategic Plan Part I - Organizational Structure HCS/589 June 1‚ 2015 Dr. Sheryl McGee Strategic Plan Part I - Organizational Structure The context around which a company is organized‚ the keystones that keep a business functioning is it structure. Organizational structure is what tells participants how an organization is placed together. More importantly‚ it is how an organization works. The structure of an organization is how leaders are chosen‚ decisions are made and how participants are recognized
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Organizational Change Organizational transformation is required with major business change initiative and it impacts most of the organization. It fundamentally changes the structures and ways of doing business. Since it is large in scope‚ it is difficult to accomplish. The success of the business initiative is dependent on the success of the organization transformation. For the organization transformation to occur a change process must be utilized. The change process insures that there is acceptance
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INTRODUCTION Organizational Development (OD) has become more and more important for today’s organizations because the world is moving so fast that organizations have to find ways to be more effective‚ more innovation‚ more customer-driven‚ and more agile. Cumming and Worley (1997) define organizational development as “a process that applies a broad range of behaviour science knowledge and practices to help organizations build their capacity to change and to achieve greater effectiveness”. Therefore
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