Reference no: EM132319717

Assignment: Your task individually is to find and interview two people who have managed organizational change, or who have been directly involved in change implementation. Design a "topic guide" for your interviews.

This should cover, for example, the organizational context; your interviewees' roles in relation to change; the nature of the changes in which they were involved; why those changes were significant; how the changes were implemented, covering key decisions, actions, turning points, crises; how your interviewees would describe their personal management styles; the outcomes of those changes-successful, or not.

If possible, choose to interview managers from different organizations and sectors, to provide contrast. Once you have collected this interview evidence, consider the following questions:

• Which images of change did those two managers illustrate?

• How did those images affect their change management decisions and actions?

• Where they drew on more than one image, to what extent were those related to the type of change?

• context of change?

• phase of change?

• Their involvement in more than one change at the same time?

• What other factors did you identify?

• What conclusions can you draw from your analysis of the effects of images and mental models on the way that your interviewees approached their change management roles?