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BUS 661 Change at DuPont For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com 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.
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BUS 661 Change Initiatives For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com     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
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BUS 661 Change Intervention For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   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
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BUS 661 Change Leader For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com     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 For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com     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.
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BUS 661 Change Stories (Green Mountain
Resort) For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com     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
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BUS 661 Change Stories For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com     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.
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BUS 661 Entire Course For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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
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BUS 661 Force Field Analysis For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com     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?
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BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change (Tyco) For
more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com  
  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.
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BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Assignment
British Airways For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com     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
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BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Assignment
NESTLE For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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. b.
Brabeck-Letmathe emphasizes the need for an
incremental approach to change. Do you agree that
this is what he has done?
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BUS 661 Leading Organizational Change Final
Paper For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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
Ed. For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialra
nk.com   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. Must include an
introductory paragra
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BUS 661 Preventing Resistance For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com     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 For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com     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 For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com 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,
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BUS 661 The Vision Wow Factor For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com     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.
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BUS 661 Toxic Handlers For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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?
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BUS 661 Vision and Organizational Change For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Loca
te 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 For more
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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. In your paper you must
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BUS 661 Week 2 Assignment Force Field
Analysis For more course tutorials
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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 For more course tutorials
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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 t
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BUS 661 Week 4 Assignment Successful Change
Versus a Dismal Failure For more course tutorials
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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
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BUS 661 Week 5 Assignment Preparing to
Communicate For more course tutorials
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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 assi
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BUS 661 Week 5 DQ 1 For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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 For more course tutorials
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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
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BUS 661 Week 6 Final PaperLeading Organizational
Change For more course tutorials
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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 a
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