Assignment #5 – Develop a Change Management Strategy and Critical Path (35%)
This assignment relates to the following Course Learning Requirements:
CLR1 – List the key features of organizational behaviour
CLR2 – Analyze the individual behaviours and processes as they apply to you in an organizational setting
CLR3 – Develop team skills and processes
CLR4 – Learn organizational processes
Objective of this Assignment: Develop a change management strategy that applies the concepts and tools learned relating to organizational behaviour and engaging workplace teams. Establish a critical path for the change strategy, ensuring that outcomes can be achieved while maintaining team buy in.
Step 1:
For this assignment, read the following scenario:
After working for your company, Gold-diggers Mining Corp. for nearly 5 years, you discover that your team is only interested in their own needs, desires and wants with little regard for the success of their peers, the values and culture of the company or the successful progression of the firm in support of sustainability. You approach the President of the company with your concerns and although he understands your perspectives, he is less than concerned because he is making lots of money. You leave his office frustrated because your personal values are not in-line with what seems to be a top-down problem. Nonetheless, you are not one to give up and begin to explore what can be done to turn things around.
As the senior leader in charge of organizational development, behaviour and culture you embark on a planning process to change the attitudes, norms and organizational behaviour of the company from its current state to one that embodies a culture of productivity, safety, support for one another and personal growth. Your task is clear but is an uphill battle because the change will have to start with the President. Your plan must be succinct, well defined and actionable as well as timely, because you fear burn-out of the few positive people left in the organization including yourself. You will be presenting your plan to the President first, which carries some risks so you know that you have to develop something that builds buy-in from the start.
Step 2:
Your role is to design a start-to-finish change management strategy for the organization which should include key topics such as: how the plan will build and maintain organizational culture, how you will structure the plan and organization to achieve results, how the plan will motivate employees and measure success and how you will steward the plan as the senior staff member in charge of its design and implementation. Include a timeline with goals and outcomes for each stage of the plan. You must design the program from the scenario provided. If there is information that you require that is not noted in the scenario just make your own assumptions but ensure to note them in your assignment.
Step 3:
1. The assignment details should be captured in no more than 1250 words (not including cover page and reference pages – see below). It will be marked based on the rubric below.
2. Your assignment is to be submitted in MS WORD format. It should be submitted with the following guidelines:
· Include a cover page with the course code and course name, the assignment number, the title of your assignment, your student ID, your name, the instructor’s name, and the date the assignment is created.
· Ensure the first page of your assignment has the title at the top of the page and the sections of your report have headings and subheadings to chunk your paper into sections for each of the topics you are writing about.
· Font should be either Calibri or Arial, 11pt. Text must be double spaced but tables may be single spaced.
· You must cite all your sources of information using APA formatting.
· Create a separate reference page that lists all of your sources that you have cited in text. Sources include software used. Also, personal communications from a professional in the field count as a reference source. For citation and referencing examples, see https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/
Assignment Grading Rubric (35%)
Criteria
Excellent
80-100%
Good
50-79%
Requires Improvement
<50%
Points
Assignment Quality
The assignment content demonstrates an exceptional understanding of the concepts and themes regarding the creation of a change management strategy and critical path
All ideas are clearly developed, organized logically, and connected with effective transitions
Explores ideas, supports points fully using a balance of evidence, uses effective reasoning to make useful distinctions
All relevant course and topic links are made
The assignment content demonstrates a good understanding of the concepts and themes regarding the creation of a change management strategy and critical path
Some unified and coherent ideas are developed with effective transitions
Supports most ideas with effective examples, and/or references, and details, makes key distinctions
Most relevant course and topic links are made
The assignment content demonstrates some understanding of the concepts and themes regarding the creation of a change management strategy and critical path
Develops and organizes ideas that are not necessarily connected. Some ideas seem illogical and/or unrelated
Presents ideas in general terms, most ideas are inconsistent/unsupported, and reasoning is flawed or unclear
Some or no relevant course and topic links are made
/15
Comments
Assignment Knowledge and Skills Demonstration
Clear, concise synthesis of course content to demonstrate understanding of topic
All ideas are clearly developed, organized logically, and connected with effective transitions
Explores ideas, supports points fully using a balance of evidence, Uses effective reasoning to make useful distinctions
All relevant course and topic links are made
Evidence of some synthesis of course content to demonstrate understanding of topic
Some unified and coherent ideas are developed with effective transitions
Supports most ideas with effective examples, and/or references, and details, makes key distinctions
Most relevant course and topic links are made
Lack of evidence or weakness in the synthesis of course content to demonstrate understanding of topic
Develops and organizes ideas that are not necessarily connected. Some ideas seem illogical and/or unrelated
Presents ideas in general terms, Most ideas are inconsistent/unsupported, and reasoning is flawed or unclear
Some or no relevant course and topic links are made
/15
Comments
Assignment Structure
Formatted as per assignment details
Structure and format enhances delivery of the information
Clear language is used which leads to easy readability
Correct grammar and spelling is consistently used
No issues with APA using citations or references.
Formatted as per assignment details in most components
Structure and format fits well with the delivery of the information
Mostly clear language is used with minor readability issues
Few or no spelling and/or grammatical errors
Minor issues with APA citations or references
Formatting has not been followed
Structure and format is unclear and impedes delivery of the information
Language used is often unclear which impedes readability
Many spelling and grammatical errors
Incorrect use of APA formatting for citations and references[1]
/5
Comments
Total Points
/35
[1] If there is evidence of missing citations or references, this could constitute plagiarism and will receive a grade of ‘0’. The regulations of academic dishonesty will apply.
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