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.
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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).
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/ 40 Total
