Reference no: EM133143169 , Length: word count:2500
Question: You are required to identify an organization, including the one you are familiar with, which is facing significant ongoing change because of the disruption caused by an external threat such as COVID-19. Prepare a report for your CEO analysing the leadership challenges facing the chosen organization. Your report should:
a) Explain and quantify the impact of the disruption to their old business model.
b) Discuss the leadership and management challenges the organisation faced in dealing with the threat.
c) Describe and critically evaluate how the leadership in the organisation responded.
d) Detail the impact on staff and the strategies to deal with the problems identified
e) Seen as a change project explain why and how the leadership should prepare for the next twelve (12) months.
You will be provided with report templates andthe marks will be allocated to the formatting of your submission.
Criterion 1 Identify a possible organisational change and justify why it is needed.
Criterion 2 Discuss the current organisational conditions including but not limited to the following areas of interest including staff engagement, drivers of change and resistance to change.
Criterion 3 Recommend strategies for the implementation and management of the change including strategies to successfully set up, execute and sustain the change, teamwork, leadership actions to overcome resistance and organisational design and structural considerations.
Task length 2500 words ± 10%
Harvard Referencing style.
Assignment Template
1. Title:
2. Contents
3. Executive Summary
4. Introduction
5. Background
6. Explain and quantify the impact of the disruption to the old business model.
a. Describe old business model
b. Explain impact
c. Quantify (if possible)
7. Discuss the leadership and management challenges the organisation faced in dealing with the threat.
a. Categorise challenges by type of challenge and discuss
8. Describe and critically evaluate how the leadership in the organisation responded.
a. Set out responses
b. Discuss the success or otherwise
9. Detail the impact on staff and the strategies to deal with the problems identified
a. Items 6 and 7 above will provide the base detail for this section - expand
10. Seen as a change project explain why and how the leadership should prepare for the next twelve (12) months.
a. Provide a structure for a change project
b. Discuss what is needed to make the project successful
c. Set out the leadership actions to action a. and b.
11. Conclusions
A summary of items 4- 11 above
12. References