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• BUS 661 Change at DuPont
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• Read the case study Change at DuPont from the end
  of chapter 7 in your text. Answer the following
  questions in a three- to four- page APA style
  paper include outside sources to support your
  answers.
• a. To what extent are the following approaches
  to change embedded in the DuPont story (justify
  your answer, providing specific examples)
• OD
• Appreciative inquiry
• Sense-making
• b. In your opinion, how compatible are these
  three approaches? Why? What evidence is there in
  the DuPont story to support your

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• BUS 661 Change Initiatives
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• Find an article that identifies at least one
  reason why organizational change
• initiatives fail in organizations. Summarize the
  article then present your
• opinion. Be sure to provide a complete APA
  citation of the article. Respond to
• at least two of your classmates postings.

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• BUS 661 Change Intervention
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• Complete the following exercise (Exercise 7.2 in
  your text) Choose a current issue in your local
  neighborhood. You will figure out how you would
  design a
• large-scale change intervention program in
  relation to this issue. Answer the following
  questions and respond to at least two of your
  classmates postings.

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• BUS 661 Change Leader
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• What skills are appropriate for a leader of
  change in a modern organization? How do you
  cultivate them? On reflection, what skills do you
  possess and how do you
• compare with your list of skills? What can you do
  to improve your skills? Respond to at least two
  of your classmates postings.

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• BUS 661 Change Rationales
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• Find two articles about organizations going
  through change. Provide a
• complete APA citation for each article. Answer
  the following questions and
• respond to at least two of your classmates
  postings.
• What is the rationale presented for the changes?
  What are the internal and
• external pressures considered in the change?
• Compare and contrast the rationales from each
  article. What are the
• commonalities presented? Are some presented as
  more legitimate than others?

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• BUS 661 Change Stories (Green Mountain Resort)
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• Read the case study Green Mountain Resort
  (Dis)solves the Turnover Problem from the end of
  Chapter 2. Answer the following questions in a
  three page APA
• style paper include outside sources to support
  your answers.
• a. Which of the six change images discussed in
  the chapter can be identified in the assumptions
  about changing turnover that were held by
• Gunter?

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• BUS 661 Change Stories
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• Briefly reflect upon an important change you have
  experienced in your
• life. Compare your change to the change stories
  from the beginning of Chapter
• 1.Compare the change stories from the beginning
  of Chapter 1. Answer the
• following questions and respond to at least two
  of your classmates' postings.
• What are the common issues across each story?

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• BUS 661 Entire Course
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• BUS 661 Change at DuPont
• BUS 661 Organizational Change Report- Bridgepoint
  Ed.
• BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Assignment
  NESTLE
• BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Assignment
  British Airways
• BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Final Paper
• BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change ( Tyco )
• BUS 661 Change Initiatives

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• BUS 661 Force Field Analysis
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• Find at least one significant article related to
  either downsizing,
• implementation of a new technology, or a merger
  or acquisition. Provide a
• complete APA citation of the article.
• What are the key driving forces? What are the key
  restraining forces?
• Prepare a force field analysis graph (see Figure
  5.9 from your text).

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• BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change (Tyco)
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• Read the case study Tyco from the end of chapter
  11 in your text. Answer the following questions
  in a three page APA style paper include outside
  sources to support your answers.
• a. Describe how the turnaround team may have used
  Gerard and Teurfs transformation skills to
  overcome the frustration of employees.
• b. Tyco used vignettes to communicate changes in
  ethical behavior. Write a vignette that could be
  used by Tyco to assist in overcoming the cultural
  change barriers that companies like Tyco faced.
  What international issues might need to be taken
  into account in writing these vignettes?

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• BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Assignment
  British Airways
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• British Airways
• Read the case study The British Airways Swipe
  Card Debacle from the end of chapter 8 in your
  text. Review the swipe card story, drawing on
  each of the following change perspectives
  discussed in chapters 7 and 8 organizational
  development, sense-making, change management,
  contingency, and processual. Answer the following
  questions in a three page APA style paper
  include outside sources to support your answers.
• a. From each change perspective, what are the key
  issues to understanding the wildcat strike?

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• BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Assignment
  NESTLE
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• Nestlé
• Read the case study Nestlé from the end of
  chapter 4 in your text. Answer the following
  questions in a three page APA style paper
  include outside sources to support your answers.
• a. Did Nestlé undergo either first-order and/or
  second-order change according to the case? Answer
  listing examples of types for change from the
  case.

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• BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Final Paper
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• Final Paper
• The final assignment for this course is an
  Organizational Change Report.The purpose of the
  Organizational Change Report is for you to
  culminate the learning achieved in the course by
  describing your understanding and application of
  knowledge in the field of organizational change.
• Focus of the Final Project

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• BUS 661 Organizational Change Report Bridgepoint
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• Focus of the Organizational Change Report
• 8-10 page paper (excluding appendixes, cover
  page, abstract, and references). The paper should
  focus on Bridgepoint Education.
• Writing the Organizational Change Report
• The Organizational Change Report
• Must be eight to ten double-spaced pages in
  length and formatted according to APA style.
  Must include an abstract after the title page
  according to APA style in the approved style
  guide.

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• BUS 661 Preventing Resistance
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• Listed below are a number of reasons why people
  may be resistant to a
• change. For each of the reasons, identify at
  least one action that could be
• taken by management to reduce the prospect that
  it will be a significant source
• of resistance (Exercise 6.2 from your text).
  Respond to at least two of your

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• BUS 661 Productive Failure
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• Sometimes things go wrong and it's not always a
  bad thing. Discuss a time in your organizations
  history when a change process failed. Explain
  what happened
• and what was learned in the process. Respond to
  at least two of your classmates postings.

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• BUS 661 Restructuring
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• Imagine that you are an employee of a large
  organization about to go through a restructuring.
  Discuss the following issues and respond to at
  least two of your classmates postings.
• What information would you like?
• From whom would you prefer to get this
  information? Why?
• In what format would you prefer to get it
  individually, in a group, through an office memo
  or email, other?

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• BUS 661 The Vision Wow Factor
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• Find the vision statement of five different
  companies that you are interested in. You can get
  these from either annual reports or from online
  searches. You may also use the vision statements
  listed in Table 9.4 of your text. to the
  following and respond to at least two of your
  classmates postings.
• Choose and paraphrase two different frameworks
  from Table 9.3 in your text.
• Assess the vision statements in relation to the
  two frameworks.

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• BUS 661 Toxic Handlers
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• Read Table 11.5 from your text about toxic
  handlers. Select one of the following discussion
  focuses (a, b, or c) depending on your own
  experiences.
• A. Have you ever been or observed a
  toxic handler? If so, compose your discussion
  around these questions
• How did this emerge?
• How long did it last?
• What were your/their greatest challenges?
• How did you/they manage the burnout factor?

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• BUS 661 Vision and Organizational Change
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• Locate one journal article that discusses vision
  in relation to specific companies going through
  organizational change. The change could be
  growth, decline, or some form of restructuring.
  Provide a complete APA citation of the article.
• How does each commentator link vision to the
  change?
• Is vision an explanatory variable for
  understanding why a change succeeded or failed?

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• BUS 661 Week 1 Assignment Change Stories
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• BUS 661 Week 1 Assignment Change Stories
• Change Stories. In a three- to four- page paper
  (excluding the title and reference pages),
  reflect on an important professional change that
  you have experienced. Compare your change story
  to one of the stories from the beginning of
  Chapter 1 of the text. Answer the following
  questions and support your thoughts with at least
  two scholarly sources.

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• BUS 661 Week 2 Assignment Force Field Analysis
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• BUS 661 Week 2 Assignment Force-Field Analysis
• Force-Field Analysis. Describe the concept of
  force-field analysis and the forces that either
  drive or restrain the change process. Using the
  force-field analysis model, discuss a change
  initiative that you are familiar with, and define
  the key driving forces and key restraining forces
  that impact the change.

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• BUS 661 Week 3 Assignment Mitigating the Chaos of
  Change
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• BUS 661 Week 3 Assignment Mitigating the Chaos of
  Change
• Mitigating the Chaos of Change. Change managers
  play an active role in the way change occurs
  within the organization. There are specific
  foundational approaches associated with the
  change process and the coach and interpreter
  images. Evaluate and discuss the Organizational
  Development (OD) approach as associated with the
  coach image. Evaluate and discuss the sense
  making approach as associated with the
  interpreter image. Compare and contrast the steps
  of each evaluated framework.

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• BUS 661 Week 4 Assignment Successful Change
  Versus a Dismal Failure
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• BUS 661 WEEK 4 Successful Change Versus a Dismal
  Failure
• Successful Change Versus a Dismal Failure. Using
  the University Library, locate a scholarly
  article that describes a successful change
  initiative within an organization. Next, locate a
  scholarly article that describes a failed change
  initiative within an organization. Compare and
  contrast the implementation theories used for the
  change events discussed in the two articles.
  Provide a summation of what could have been done
  to make the failure a successful initiative.

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• BUS 661 Week 5 Assignment Preparing to
  Communicate
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• BUS 661 Week 5 Assignment Preparing to
  Communicate
• Preparing to Communicate. When change is imminent
  in an organization, there are specific steps that
  must be taken to develop the proper communication
  procedures and guidelines for the change process.
  Assume that you have been assigned the role of
  toxic handler. In your paper
• Describe the toxic handler concept.
• Explain how you will prepare to effectively
  handle the role.

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• BUS 661 Week 5 DQ 1
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• Week 5 Discussion 1.
• Imagine that you are the liaison between the
  decision makers and the followers and that your
  role is to communicate potential personnel change
  initiatives. Using the communication strategies
  found in the text, what actions will you take to
  format the conversation with employees regarding
  the restructuring process?

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• BUS 661 Week 5 DQ 2
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• Week 5 Discussion 2
• There are specific qualities required to
  successfully communicate change initiatives
  within an organization. Drawing from this weeks
  lecture and readings, discuss some of the most
  important leadership skills required to develop
  employee ownership and acceptance of change
  initiatives within an organization.

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• BUS 661 Week 6 Final PaperLeading Organizational
  Change
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• BUS 661 Week 6 Final Paper
• Focus of the Final Paper
• We have determined that change is inevitable and
  subject to a number of variables attributing to
  the success or failure of the change process. The
  Final Paper is an exploration of a change
  initiative that you have personally experienced
  or researched. The paper should demonstrate your
  knowledge of the change process through a
  comprehensive analysis and discussion of the
  following aspects of organizational change. Your
  paper must include

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