BUS745_W3DQ3 (0.5 single spaced page about 275
words)

Discussion
Question 3 –Applied
Concepts (AC)–
Week/Course Learning Outcomes

Using
your textbook, LIRN-based research, and the Internet, apply the learning
outcomes for the week/course and lecture concepts to one of the following
scenarios:

·As applied to your current professional career as a Financial/Economic Expert/Consultant/Advisor

·As applied to enhancing, improving, or advancing your
current professional career as a
Financial/Economic Expert/Consultant/Advisor

·As applied to a management, leadership, or any
decision-making position

·As applied to a current or future entrepreneurial endeavor

OR

·Using your textbook, LIRN-based research, and the Internet,
apply the learning outcomes for the week/course and lecture concepts to a
business organization that exhibits and demonstrates these concepts. You should
develop a summary of the organizations strategy and how they use these concepts
to compete.

This is a
learning and application exercise designed to give you an opportunity to apply
concepts learned in a pragmatic and meaningful way that will enable you to gain
valuable and relevant knowledge in an effort to augment your skill set and
enhance your professional careers.

BUS745_W4 DQ 1 (0.5 single
spaced page about 275 words)

Read
Exercise 6.1 and

· 
comment on what
general conclusions emerge regarding the relationship between vision and organizational change?

· 
What have you
learned from this exercise?

BUS745_W4DQ2 (0.5 single
spaced pageabout 275 words)

In
your opinion, what is the connection between vision and the direction of
change?

BUS745_W4CLA1 (3 single
spaced page about 800 words)

CLA 1- Comprehensive Learning Assessment I- CLO1, CLO2, CLO3

1. 

a. 
What symptoms of
resistance to change have you experienced?

b. 
Have you experienced
both active and passive forms?

c. 
Have you experienced
them as a resistor yourself (as a recipient of change)?

d. 
Have you experienced
them as someone responsible for the management of change (as an initiator of
change)?

2.

a. 
Which of the various
reasons for resisting change do you believe to be the most common?

b. 
What are your
“top three” in this regard?

3.

a. 
Which of the various
reasons for resisting change do you believe to be the most difficult to deal
with (as a manager)?

b. 
What are your
“top three” in this regard?

4.When senior managers resist change at the strategic
level, they are in a position to cause more damage than employees resisting
changes at the operational level.

a. 
Have you worked in a
company where you believe that management resistance to change may have
existed?

b. 
As a manager
yourself, what would you try to do to prevent this from happening?

5.

a. 
Which approach to
the management of resistance attracts you?

b. 
What is the reason
for your choice?

c. 
For example, is it
because you think it to be the most effective or does it also relate to a view
that you have about how people should be managed?

Please develop
and prepare a single spaced 3-page APA
6^th edition formatted paper.

BUS745_W5DQ1 (0.5 single
spaced page)

a. 
Discuss some
concepts pertaining to the language of change.

b. 
What is meant by the
power of conversation?

BUS745_W5DQ2 (0.5 single
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What are some of the causes of the resistance to change?

BUS745_W5DQ3 (0.5 single
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What are the different approaches to managing resistance?

BUS745_W6DQ1 (0.5 single
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a. 
Can you identify different sense-making
activities going on during organizational change?

b. 
What ability do you have to influence these?

c. 
Do you exercise power in your attempts to
influence the interpretations others have of change situations?

d. 
With what success?

e.  What
are the implications of this?

BUS745_W6DQ2 (0.5 single
spaced page)

Briefly summarize the main
concepts presented in Exercise 9.5.

BUS745_W6PA2 (2 single
spaced page)

Professional Assignment 2 – CLO4

o  Identify a current change in an organization with which
you are familiar.

o  Alternatively, identify a current public issue about
which “something must be done.”

o  In relation to the change issue, think about what
sense-making changes might need to be enacted and how you would go about doing
this.

o  Assess this in terms of the eight elements of the
sense-making framework suggested by Helms Mills and as set out inTable 9.7:

 • Identity construction

 • Social sense-making

 • Extracted cues

 • Ongoing sense-making

 • Retrospection

 • Plausibility

 • Enactment

 • Projection

What ones did you feel you might have the most/least
control over? Why? What implications does this have for adopting a sense-making
approach to organizational change?

Prepare a 2 page document with your answers and thoughts
in APA format.

BUS745_W7DQ1 (0.5 single
spaced page)

Give an example of some of the ways of “how to make
change fail” listed in table 10.1

BUS745_W7DQ2 (0.5 single
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Briefly summarize the “classic change curve”.

BUS745_W7DQ3 (0.5 single
spaced page)

Identify and discuss some of the factors that threaten
the sustainability of change that can lead to initiative decay?

BUS745_W8DQ1 (0.5 single
spaced page)

What is meant by
“leading change from the middle”, please summarize this concept.

BUS745_W8DQ2 (0.5 single
spaced page)

What are some of the
competencies, skills, knowledge, and other attributes that allow people to be
effective change managers?

BUS745_W8CLA2 (3 single
spaced page)

Answer
the following questions in a 3-5 page APA format paper:

1.

a. 
If you have been involved previously as a
manager of change, how would you rate yourself in terms of your handling of the
need to take actions that sustain change? What have you done well?

b.  What
not so well?

2.

a. 
When you’ve been on the receiving end of the change
initiatives of others, how well have they handled the need to take actions that
sustain change?

b. 
What have they done well?

c.  What
not so well?

3.

a. 
Of the various cases presented in chapter 12,
which one resonates best with you?

b. 
What is it about this case that you can relate
to?

c. 
Are there any implications for how you would act
in the future?

4.  How
good are you at handling unanticipated outcomes?

5.  If
there was one main idea that you took away from chapter 12 that you believe can
be of most use to you as a change manager, what would it be?

6.  If
you were to add an idea to the treatment of sustaining change that is provided
in chapter 12, what would be your contribution?

Your CLA2 submission (cumulative report) should be single spaced APA 6^th ed. Format 3-pages in length. The CLA assignments encompass the learning
objectives for this course and are designed to increase your comprehension and
augment your ability to apply concepts learned in your professional careers.