You
are to think about and start with Hargreaves’ Five Pillars of Purpose and
Partnership as an overall
frame
to discuss the current change and future practices encompassing sustainability
and sustainable
leadership.
You
will research a planned organizational change that is currently taking place in
your respective
workplaces.
Using the concepts, theories, and models presented in the text and literature,
you will conduct
an
in-depth analysis of your selected organizational change. If a workplace planned
organizational change
is not
accessible to you, you should identify a current organizational change (either
in your local
community
or at the national level) that you can analyze. If you choose this second
approach, you must be
sure
you can gain access to a great deal of information about the change, either
through interviews of
those
leading and responding to the change, or through the media (newspapers,
manuscripts, internet,
radio,
and television, etc.) or both. The paper should include the three parts below:
Part
1: Introduction (1 page)
Present
the organization of your paper. Then, briefly describe the planned change you
investigated and
why.
Following this, discuss the method you used to gather data, i.e., how you
observed the change and
whom
you interviewed and why. (Interview 2 people in your organization who are
stakeholders of
the
change (i.e., change agent; change recipient(s). You
should develop an interview protocol and
interview
these two people involved with the change, ideally a person who is leading the
change and a
person
who is responding to the change.
When
discussing your selected planned change, focus on the problem surrounding the
change: how did
the
change emerge to be an issue that needs to be addressed and why? Also, discuss
the significance of
the
problem: why is the change important and what are the anticipated benefits and
potential adverse
ramifications
of implementing the change? Use your own observations in addition to the
organizational
change
literature to support your arguments. Link this to the Pillars of Change.
Part 2: Analysis of Planned Change (8-10 pages)
Organize
this part of the assignment into four sections: Dynamics of the Change:
(1) content of change,
(2)
process of change (include discussion of the role of the change agent), (3)
context of change, (4)
reaction
to change, (5) With each section, you must support your arguments by
integrating readings (both
inside
and outside the course) and responses from your interviews.
Dynamics
of Change:
Section
1
Content
of Change(1-2 pages): Address the question: what is the substance of the
change. Describe the
content
of the change. Does this link to one of the Pillars of Change in The Fourth
Way?
Section
2
Process
of Change(1-2 pages): Address the question: how are change agents leading
the change and
why?
Does this link to Sustainable leadership/distributed leadership as discussed in
Catalyst 1?
Section
3
Context
of Change(1-2 pages): Address the question: what contextual factors are
driving how change
agents
are leading the change and how change recipients are responding to the change.
Is the context
supportive
of a collaborative culture or a learning community (Principle 3 in The Fourth
Way?)
Section
4
Reaction
to Change(2 pages): Address the question: how are change recipients
responding to the change
and
why. Include reference to supportive environments to assist with the reactions
as in Principle 3.
Part
3: Conclusions and Recommendations (2 pages)
Students
should extract and draw conclusions about the change from their analyses.
Students should
present
at four-five conclusions and discuss each, drawing from the content of their
analyses in addition
to the
literature. Students should also present key recommendations for making the
change successful
using
the concepts, theories, and models discussed in the course.
The
paper should be 10-12 pages in length (No more than 12 pages), be
double-spaced, use 12-pt Times
Roman
font, have one-inch top, bottom, left, and right margins, and adhere to
guidelines stipulated in the
Publication
Manual of the American Psychological Association(Sixth
Edition).
Assignment
will be assessed using the rubric below:
A4 –
Organizational Change Research Paper Rubric
(40
Points)
The
following criteria will be considered when evaluating your
organizational
research paper.
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Focus/Rationale The rationale for choosing the organizational change is
clearly
delineated. There is a comprehensive description of
the
problem surrounding the organizational change: how it
emerged
and why, why the change is important, and the
anticipated
benefits of its implementation. The methods
used
to gather data about the change are described and
Hargreaves’
Five Pillars of Purpose and Partnership is used
as an
overall frame to discuss the current change and future
practices
encompassing sustainability and sustainable
leadership.
_____/25
Analysis There is effective use of the results of any interviews,
observations,
and research and theory to discuss the content,
process,
and context of the change, and reaction to the
change.
The dynamics of the change (i.e., the interactions
among
all the four subsystems (content, process, context,
reaction)
is clearly presented and analyzed in relation to
Hargreaves’
model. There is skillful use of direct quotes
from
the interviews to support arguments posed by the
student.
Several
additional readings are integrated into the
discussion
(at least three readings from the course readings
and
three readings outside the course).
_____/5
Findings Conclusions are based on evidence derived from both the
interviews
and the research and theories identified in the
literature.
Four-five conclusions are presented along with at
least
three recommendations for making the change
successful
and for future integration of Hargreaves’ model.
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Organization Organization includes the definition of unfamiliar terms, a
logical
progression of ideas, appropriate transitions, and
paragraph
structure. The interview protocol should be
included
as an appendix.
_____/5
Format Paper is 13-15 pages in length (No more than 15 pages), is double-spaced,
uses 12-pt Times Roman font, has one-inch top, bottom, left, and right margins,
and adheres to the standards presented in the Publication Manual of the American
Psychological Association (Sixth Edition).
________
/ 40 Total
