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Change management
Assignment
Part 1: For an organization that you know well, what are the main reasons why it has attempted to make changes to products, services, systems and/or structure?
* When you completed Activity 1.1, did you list anything that falls under any of the following headings?
– changing customer requirements and changing demand for products/services;
– regulatory changes;
– trade union activity;
– actions by competitors;
– business performance (falling incomes or revenues);
– economic climate;
– advances in technology that affect production systems or products;
– production costs (materials, labor);
– the growth of e-commerce and use of the Internet;
– competition from other countries.
Take the list you made when doing Activity 1.1 and categorize each factor according to whether you consider it to stem from political, economic, technological or socio-cultural forces.
2/ To what extent are Dunphy and Stace's four types of change helpful in working with ‘real-life' examples of change? Illustrate your answer with examples from organizations you know well.
Part2:
QUESTIONS:
1/ Give examples of environmental forces for change that are likely to affect significantly, the way organizations operate over the next ten years. Justify your choices.
2/Define the following terms:
- Smooth incremental change,
- Discontinuous change,
- Frame-breaking change
- Convergence change
3/Identify the different characteristics of Greiner's phases of growth (change)
4/Discuss the relationship between strategy and structure,
5/ determine the dimensions of structure
6/explain how cultural differences impact upon organizational change
Attachment:- Assignment.rar