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Assignment: Change Management Proposal

Since the health care environment is constantly changing and transforming, the ability to manage and adapt to change is essential in health care organizations. Change, whether prompted internally or externally or perceived positively or negatively, can be unsettling, making it crucial that health care administrators understand the change process. From implementation planning to effectively communicating with employees and managing conflicts, administrators must be prepared to manage change within their organizations. For this Assignment, you examine an organization undergoing change and develop a change management proposal.

To prepare for this Assignment:

Locate and select an organization where change is currently taking place (or is scheduled to take place).

Analyze the organization to develop a change management proposal.

The Assignment

Prepare a proposal, address the following:

1) Describe the specific organization including size, mission, and location. Describe the change that is taking place (or is scheduled to take place) in the organization.

2) Analyze what is driving the change to take place.

3) Given the parameters of the change, summarize the resistance or conflict you might expect and why.

4) Evaluate change management theories and models and select one to apply to the change occurring in the organization. Support why you selected this theory or model.

5) Apply systems thinking to address the impact of the change throughout the organization.

6) Recommend strategies and innovations that could be implemented to effect the organizational change and provide rationale for the recommendations.