Assessment 2: Consultant’s Report and Simulation 50% TMM individual submission (1200 words +- 10% maximum, simulation role discussion)

The Individual Assessment for this module consists of two assessments. You will be paired with a fellow student to undertake the second assignment.

Assessment 1 is focused on optimising the operations of a simulated business from the perspective of a business leader who specifies the requirements for change. Within this assessment Assignment 1 involves contextualizing and specifying this requirement for change, including the need for change and the readiness for change, in the form of a written Leader’s Programme Journal which should be critically supported through the application of appropriate organizational change theory. This Journal is both uploaded to turn it in and delivered to your paired student colleague to brief them for their assessment 2 task.

Assessment 2 is focused on you as the consultant change project manager responsible for delivering a sustained change that addresses the need for organizational optimisation that your fellow student has specified in assessment 1. Within this assessment you will deliver Assignment 2 which will specify your change approach in the form of a written Consultant Programme Journal, again critically supported through the application of appropriate organizational change theory. This Journal is uploaded to turn it in.

The presentation simulation is a role play that supports Assessment 2. This involves two reflective critical discussions between yourself and your paired student colleague about the challenges you faced, firstly in your role as Organistional Leader in Assessment 1 and secondly as Consultant Change Manager in assessment 2. Each discussion should take no longer than 4 mins, the conversation will be stopped after 8 mins. In the absence of a paired student, a single student can talk directly to their tutor.

Acting as a consultant change manager you will develop a plan to deliver and sustain the optimisation of the operations of a simulated business as has been specified in the assignment 1 Leader’s Programme Journal of your student colleague. Referring to the specification of requirements in your colleagues assignment 1 your Consultant Programme Journal will: Introduce the organisation and proposed change; address the education of employees (learning plan); the informing of pertinent stakeholders (communication plan); For each of the above illustrative plans you will provide a written context that will leverage appropriate change management theories and models that you have covered within the course or through you own independent research. Finally, you will critic how you are to address the culture of the simulated organisation in terms of its resistance to change.

A draft format for the Consultant Programme Journal might include:

Journal 1 Introduction – the organisation , need for change and required outcome – 200 words (inc strategy and vision)

Journal 2 The education plan, model and justification 200 words ( inc learning contracts, loop model and organisation learning)

Journal 3 The stakeholder communication plan, model and justification – 300 words ( inc comm plan- stage messages and media)

Journal 4 Critic of the challenges associated with overcoming cultural resistance to change 500 words ( inc Change agency; kotter 8 step v emotional resistance)

References

Optional Appendices – NOTE: Complete Models can be placed in the text as diagrams

Note: this is a critical plan so there is no requirement for a conclusion

Marking Rubric

Marks

allocated

criteria:

Implementing change learning plan

20%

Communications plan

20%

Highlight the middle managers role in dealing with the implications and

30%

consequences of the results of a collision of change forces with organisational

culture.

Demonstrated level of research (in terms of perceived use of relevant change

15%

management theory)

Reflective contribution during the two simulation role play discussions to extract

5%+ 5%

the maximum learning and benefit for self and others.

Grammar , proper use of the Harvard System of referencing

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