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ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 5 DQ 1 Patnerships
ASHFORD MGT 435 Entire Course
Partnerships. View the Malcolm Gladwell video,
Malcolm Gladwell on Innovation, about todays
customers desiring partnerships. How does
employee empowerment aid in building partnerships
between companies and their customers? Provide an
example from your experience as an employee or
customer. Construct your answer from the theories
youve learned. Review several of your peers
posts. Compare your experiences with at least two
peers and identify lessons you can apply in your
future work  
  ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 1 DQ 1 Examples of
Organizational Change ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 1 DQ 2
Implementing Organizational Change ASHFORD MGT
435 Week 1 Quiz ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 2 DQ 1
Innovation ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 2 DQ 2 Change
Models ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 2 Quiz ASHFORD MGT
435 Week 3 DQ 1 Tools of Organizational
Change ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 3 DQ 2 Changes at the
Top ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 3 Assignment Change
Model ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 3 Quiz
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MGT 435 Week 1 DQ 2 Implementing Organizational
Change
MGT 435 Week 1 DQ 1 Examples of Organizational
Change
  View the Social Media Revolution video. We have
all watched organizations around us change in
response to technology, legislation, consumer
demand, and other factors. Provide an example of
an organization that has changed for the better
and how this transition benefited its customers,
employees, and investors. Review several of your
peers posts. Discuss how and why these changes
have occurred, with at least two of your peers.
This post should be at least 200 words in length.
Select one of the following approaches to
understanding or implementing organizational
change. Summarize this approach. Provide an
example of how this information could be useful
to an organization. Review several of your peers
posts. Discuss any similar or opposing
perspectives you have, with at least two of your
peers. Take care to be professional and polite
even if your beliefs or viewpoints differ.
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MGT 435 Week 2 DQ 1 Innovation
MGT 435 Week 1 Quiz
  Week 1   1. Question Which of the following
is not the case with regard to climate change
issues and company competiveness? 2. Question
Compared to reactive change, proactive changes
initiated by organization leaders . . .
3. Question Which of the following is a key
factor in allowing a small business to remain
competitive? 4. Question Which of the
following frameworks of effective organizational
change focuses on the ethical behavior of
organizational members and groups? 5. Question
Which of the following techniques might
organizational development specialists utilize in
their work?
  View the Seth Godin video about innovation,
Ideas that Spread, Win. Think of an innovative
company and explain how its ability to adapt has
enabled the organization to remain competitive in
its industry. Review several of your peers
posts. Discuss with at least two of your peers
how these changes impacted employees or other
organizational stakeholders.
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MGT 435 Week 2 Quiz
MGT 435 Week 2 DQ 2 Change Models
Select and compare two of the following change
models environment-industry-organization
contingency, organizational life-cycle, action
research model, eight-step approach, appreciative
inquiry. Identify the pros and cons of the two
models you selected. Review several of your
peers posts. Discuss any similar or opposing
perspectives you have, with at least two of your
peers. Take care to be professional and polite
even if your beliefs or viewpoints differ.
WEEK 2 Quiz 1. Question Organizational
Inertia refers to 2. Question Which
organizational change model stresses the
importance of applying a historical analysis of
changes occurring over the course of a companys
development? 3. Question Stage 5 of The
Development Life-Cycle of Organizations is known
as 4. Question Second-order (discontinuous)
changes are 5. Question According to Lewins
Force-Field Analysis to change resistance,
change is the result of
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MGT 435 Week 3 DQ 1 Tools of Organizational Change
MGT 435 Week 3 Assignment Change Model
Imagine that you are an executive for XYZ, Inc.,
a high-end retail chain that sells luxury
watches, jewelry, and hand bags. Youve just been
put in charge of the companys first
international expansion, opening a store in
Shanghai, China. This will be a short-term,
small-scale change for the organization. After
one year, you will be expected to begin opening
additional stores in Brazil, Russia, India, and
China (also known as the BRIC countries). This
will be a long-term, large-scale change. In 3-5
pages, explain which change model you would
follow for the short-term change and which you
would follow for the long-term change
Select one of the following tools the nine steps
in Ackerman and Andersons roadmap for change,
Cummings and Worleys five dimensions of leading
and managing change, or the three components of
organizational change. Explain how a leader could
use this tool in guiding an organizational
change. Review several of your peers posts.
Respond to two peers who did not choose the same
tool as you. Discuss the similarities and
differences between the tools.
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MGT 435 Week 3 Quiz
MGT 435 Week 3 DQ 2 Changes at the Top
  View this video about Apples leadership, Steve
Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO. Explain what impact
you think the loss of Steve Jobs will have on
each the companys primary stakeholder groups
customers, employees, and investors. In what ways
to you think Tim Cooks leadership might change
Apple? Review several of your peers posts.
Discuss any similar or opposing perspectives you
have, with at least two of your peers. Take care
to be professional and polite even if your
beliefs or viewpoints differ.
Week 3 quiz 1. Question True or false? The
type of intervention that will be most effective
is dependent upon the particular organizational
dimensions. 2. Question According to the
Stakeholder Matrix, if the stakeholder is
assessed as Non-Supportive, which of the
following strategies should be used? 3. Question
When undertaking stakeholder analysis for
preparing to manage the political dimensions of
change, involving different individuals across
the organization serves to make the process
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MGT 435 Week 4 DQ 2 Failures of Change
MGT 435 Week 4 DQ 1 Personal Experiences
  View the video You Can Be Good at Change. Think
of an organizational change that you experienced.
Describe how you were impacted by the change.
What could the leadership have done to make the
transition more successful? Cite one or more
change models to support your assertion. Review
several of your peers posts. Compare your
experiences with at least two peers and identify
lessons you can apply to future organizational
changes.  
Organizational change is not always successful.
Identify factors that can cause change
initiatives to fail and the five pillars that can
cause them to succeed. Highlight an organization
that failed to adapt and evaluate which of these
factors and pillars were demonstrated by this
organization. Review several of your peers
posts. Discuss any similar or opposing
perspectives you have, with at least two of your
peers. Take care to be professional and polite
even if your beliefs or viewpoints differ.
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MGT 435 Week 5 DQ 2 Organizational Learning
MGT 435 Week 4 Quiz
1. Question Needs-based positioning refers
to 2. Question Airline companies that attempt
to improve customer relations by training their
flight attendants, but not ticketing agents, are
specifically guilty of 3. Question The skills,
knowledge, and experience of individuals or a
workforce with regard to their value and costs as
invested by an organization is known as
  Evaluate the importance of organizational
learning. Provide examples of how learning and
change can impact one another. Review several of
your peers posts. Discuss any similar or
opposing perspectives you have, with at least two
of your peers. Take care to be professional and
polite even if your beliefs or viewpoints differ.
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MGT 435 Week 5 Quiz
MGT 435 Week 5 Final Assignment Kotters 8 Step
Approach
Think of an organization you have worked for or
one with which you are very familiar. Diagnose
the need for change and present a plan to
transform the organization, utilizing Kotters
8-Step Approach. Include the following sections
headings and additional sections as needed 1.
Introduction 2. Company Overview 3. Diagnosis
4. Kotters 8-Step Approach 5. Conclusion The
Final Paper for the course must be submitted to
the instructor by 1159 p.m. of the time zone in
which you reside on the last day of the class.
1. Question Of the following, which is one of
the most serious liabilities of the traditional,
hierarchical organizational structure, as opposed
to the modern, more decentralized approach?
2. Question Which of the following represents a
soft dimension of change? 3. Question In
Rowdens (2009) four traits of learning
organizations, continuous planning, reflection,
and adjustment exemplifies
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