MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE
Assignment Instructions

For the ASSIGNMENT, consider a major organizational change that occurred in your workplace. Think carefully about the steps taken by management during the change process, and the organizational change processes and concepts that you read about in the background materials. Then write a 2- page paper addressing the following issues:

Describe the change that occurred in your workplace.

Was the change successful?

Were a lot of employee resistance to this change?

What steps and processes did management take to implement this change?

Was it similar to Lewin’s three steps, Kotter’s eight steps, or the five steps used in action research?

In retrospect, do you think the change process would have gone better if management used Lewin’s three steps, Kotter’s eight steps, or the five-step approach of action research?

Carefully explain your reasoning for each of your three answers using specific examples from your personal experience and the concepts from the background materials.

Assignment Expectations
Follow the assignment instructions closely and follow all steps listed in the instructions.
Stay focused on the precise assignment questions. Don’t go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to general background materials.