Models of Organization Change Paper (Post in Assignments)
LO 1: Understand and explain classic and contemporary concepts, perspectives, and theories of leadership as they relate to organization change (Assignment needs to identify, describe, explain, compare, and/or discuss).
LO 2: Associate, analyze, and assess leadership and organizational change theories in the context of practical situations involving change initiatives (Assignments should evaluate, challenge, criticize, and/or recommend).
LO 3: Understand why it is important to manage change well (Assignment needs to identify, describe, explain, compare and contrast, and/or discuss).
LO 5: Analyze competing perspectives and the contributions of several important scholars regarding leadership, diversity, and organizational change (Assignments should analyze, compare and contrast, modify, and/or examine).
LO 7: Link conceptual material to practical situations to enhance analytical, managerial, and problem solving skills (Assignments should combine, analyze, identify assumptions, formulate, and/or modify).
LO 8: Write at a graduate level, including clear and coherent structuring of ideas and the communication of those ideas, sentence and document structure and APA formatting.
LO 9: Develop critical thinking. (Assignments should create, model, theorize, plan, prepare, and/or design)
Purpose of the Assignment: The purpose of the assignment is for students to develop an understanding of theoretical perspectives and to learn to analyze them and apply the knowledge to identify existing theories. Learning the components of theories will help students evaluate theories and may help them develop their own. Learning the different theories related to change will help students understand and effect change in organizations.
Skills: the purpose of this assignment is to help you practice the following skills
Identify different leadership and organization change theories
Understand relationship between leadership and change theories
Analyze components of theories
Classify existing development theories
Knowledge: This assignment will help students to become familiar with the following important content knowledge in this discipline
Knowledge of the theoretical foundation of organization change
Knowledge of classic and contemporary leadership theories involved in organization change
Knowledge of how to analyze theories
Knowledge of theories and components of theories.
Knowledge of classification of theories
Tasks:
Write a 1,250 to 1,500 words paper that addresses the following:
a. Describe classic and contemporary theoretical foundation of organizational change (such as closed and open systems) AND of leadership (such as traits, contingency, transformation, etc.) as they relate to organization change. Support it with relevant research: use several relevant sources.
b. Compare and contrast the different perspectives about the relationship between leadership and organization change. Explain the importance for leaders of organizations of planning, implementing, and managing change effectively. Support it with relevant research: use several relevant sources.
c. Identify the different assumptions for developing theories and analyze two leadership theories according to the assumptions of Peter Drucker.
d. Analyze the theoretical classification of organization development of life cycle, teleological, dialectical, and evolutionary theories. Briefly describe each of them, and provide a specific example of a theory under each of the classifications. Note: the textbook does not provide examples. You need to analyze each classification and compare popular change and development theories to determine where each theory would fall under the four classifications of Van de Ven and Poole (Ch 8).
The number of words are provided as a guide and not as a strict requirement. Focus on meeting content requirements rather than word count. Research peer-reviewed documents from Google Scholar and professional journals. Use at least five sources and as many as needed to support your work. Do not use poor quality sources such as Wikipedia, dictionaries (all types), encyclopedias, answers.com, and similar sources. Paper should have an introduction and closing paragraphs/sections. APA format. Write in third person for appropriate academic tone. Use headings to organize your paper by following each of the assignment requirements shown as a, b, and c above. Examples of headings are Leadership Theories and Classification of Theories. Each assignment requirement above must be supported with several relevant research sources as acknowledged with in-text citations, and those citations listed with the full information in References.
Criteria for Success: The paper is expected to be supported with citations from several scholarly and high-quality sources. The basic format for supporting work with citations is to make specific statements and supporting that main statement with one or more citations. Each assignment requirement shown above as a, b, and c should be supported with relevant citations. Assignment requirements that are not supported with relevant research may earn a maximum of 70% of the points for that assignment requirement. See assignment rubric for specifics and allocation of points and weights. See assignment example in Resources.
