Instruction
Week 8: Challenges to Change: Resistance and Resilience
(2Pages)
Provide an explanation of how NASAs failure to respond to change, such as internal operating procedures, lead to the Columbia disaster. In your explanation, describe how resistance to change affected the outcome. Then, using the example of your own or another organization with which you are familiar, explain one strategy for overcoming resistance to change and building in resilience, and explain why you chose this strategy.
Be sure to support your postings and responses with specific references to the Learning Resources and other current literature in the Walden Library.
Readings
Entwhistle, T. (2011). For appropriateness or consequences? Explaining organizational change in English local government. Public Administration, 89(2), 661680.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Lewis, A. (2012). Finding a model for managing change. Training & Development, 39(5), 67.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Packard, T., Patti, R., Daly, D., & Tucker-Tatlow, J. (2012). Organizational change for services integration in public human service organizations: Experiences in seven counties. Journal of Health and Human Services Administration, 34(4), 471525.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Tummers, L., Steijn, B., & Bekkers, V. (2012). Explaining the willingness of public professionals to implement public policies, content, context, and personality characteristics. Public Administration, 90(3), 716736.
Retrieved from the Walden Library databases.
Howell, E. (2013). Columbia disaster: What happened, what NASA learned. Retrieved from http://www.space.com/19436-columbia-disaster.html