8-10 Page paper on Business Change Process. Select a substantial change effort that you are involved in currently, or have recently experienced (or, if necessary, can find substantial written material about), and analyze it. I will provide the writer with detailed instructions from my course syllabus The assignment is due February 9 @ 6pm Pacific Standard time

8-10 Page paper on Business Change Process. Select a substantial change effort that you are involved in currently, or have recently experienced (or, if necessary, can find substantial written material about), and analyze it. I will provide the writer with detailed instructions from my course syllabus The assignment is due February 9 @ 6pm Pacific Standard time

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Change Process Paper



The Change Process Paper is the major deliverable for the course. Select a substantial change effort that you are involved in currently, or have recently experienced (or, if necessary, can find substantial written material about), and analyze it on the basis of the materials covered in this class. One reason to consider a change in which you are or have been involved is that it allows you a better understanding of the psychological ups and downs involved in a change process, thereby providing a greater appreciation for how difficult real change is.

The paper should follow this outline:
Introduction: What is the situation, organization, and context for the change? Also, it is important that you convey clearly from what perspective you will be writing the analysis. Did you lead the change? Were you a participant in the change? Are you reporting on information that you received second-hand or through secondary sources? If so, what are those sources?
Analysis according to class materials: Analyze the approach taken by the change agent(s), and write separate sections for each of the following: a) the image of the type of change held by the change agent(s), b) the culture of the setting that is changing and the role culture played in the change, c) the diagnosis of the change, d) the extent to which the (envisioned and actual) change was first or second order/adaptive or transformational/tectonic, e) the method(s) for implementing change, f) the vision for the change, and g) how the change was communicated.

Overall Evaluation: Evaluate the quality of the change agents work based on class readings. You should also evaluate outcomes from a process and outcome perspective (i.e. some change efforts follow good process but do not yield good outcomes, and vice versa.)
Recommendations: Include a list of recommendations suggesting what steps could have been taken to increase the success of the project.
Criteria for grading the paper will include:
Use of materials from the course. I expect that your paper will make a number of references to class readings and discussions. While you do not need to footnote, you should cite the reading by putting the authors name and the date of the publication in parentheses following the reference. Where quotes are used directly, put the page number the quote appears on. A list of all readings you referenced in the paper should appear at the end of the paper.
Use of supplemental material to support the paper: Please include graphs, process flow diagrams, organizations charts, survey results, etc. that help tell the story more vividly.
The rigor of your analysis of the change process on a step-by-step basis

The use of supporting data. If you make an assertion such as Morale at my company was at an all-time low, on what do you base this? Or, if you suggest, This project has had an enormous impact on customer satisfaction, how do you know this to be true? While it is acceptable to occasionally insert some subjectivity into the analysis be clear to identify what is subjective opinion and what is based on more objective data sources.
The quality of your conclusions and recommendations
The final papers narrative should be about 8 - 10 pages (attachments not included.)