Course Project Expectations

With a small group, discuss the following questions. Choose someone to read the question out loud, and direct the discussion so that each person can offer his/her opinion on the topic. Have another student record the group’s response and choose a third student to report the information gathered to the class in a discussion.

2. To introduce students to the process of problem identification and potential solution analysis that will be used in case discussions throughout the semester.

Answer the following question: How would possible changes in the industry’s market structure impact your chosen company’s business strategy in the future? Keep your company’s current business strategy in mind in your response.

In order to successfully and effectively implement change all of the employees should have a good understanding of how the changes will benefit the organization, their positions, and how it might impact their routines. To many employees the implementation of change is not always properly communicated, and the process of change on paper as it is being implemented can be threatening as well as confusing. Also, the people behind the scenes making the changes may not have taken specific details into consideration regarding effective changes that perhaps the employees

3. Your project should be presented in report format and should contain an Executive Summary and a Bibliography. Use of Appendices would be appropriate.

Complete your Research Project 2 in a Word document, APA formatted, and then submit it in the Assignment section of the classroom by midnight, EST, Day 7.

Each week, the student will have a specific portion to submit (hereunder) as described in the modules. Prepare each assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.

o Submit your own work on time. No credit will be given if the assignment is submitted after the due date. o Note that the completed assignment should be submitted in .doc, .docx, .rtf or .pdf format only.

Week 3, the lecture on Managing Change describes organizational changes that occur when a company makes a shift from its current state to some preferred future state. Managing organizational change is the process of planning and implementing change in organizations in such a way as to decrease employee resistance and cost to the organization while concurrently expanding the effectiveness of the change effort. Today's business environment requires companies to undergo changes almost constantly if they are to remain competitive. Students of organizational change identify areas of change in order to analyze them. A manager trying to implement a change, no matter how small, should expect to encounter some resistance from within the organization.

The following critique is written for the reflection review of change management. The report proceeds with a review of each question that was assigned as well as presents a brief exploration of my experience and ideas that were acquired from taking change management classes.

5. Is change needed in its long-term direction? its objectives? strategy? its approach to strategy

The change is managed through developing a detailed analysis of current and prospective situations within an organization. It is necessary to address all relevant aspects of change in order to develop a plan for incorporating change in

to the topics to be discussed in class. We will proceed on the assumption that you have done the

1. Discuss the primary reasons why Haier moves from a single and dominant business strategy to a diversified strategy.

1.1 The analysis must include consideration of two current schools of thought on change management and how they have contributed to organizational change