MGMT5904 Managing Oganisational Change-Information technology and Journal Articl

 

Why is the need for organisational change increasing?

 

Defining organisational change

 

Examples of organisational changes

 

Success of change efforts?

 

Factors that influence change success

 

Change Agent Models

 

Internal vs external change agents

 

Process facilitator / consultant (vs technical expert)

 

Change champion (Warrick, 1999)

 

Change strategist, change implementer, change recipient (Kanter, Stein, & Jick, 1995)

 

Cummings & Worley (2009) identified three major trends that have resulted in a need to implement more and larger-scale organisational changes on an ongoing basis

What is a change agent?

 

Change in discussions of change agents over time

 

Change agent models

 

Internal vs external change agents

 

Process facilitator / consultant (vs technical expert)

 

Change champion (Warrick, 1999)

 

Change strategist, change implementer, change recipient (Kanter, Stein, & Jick, 1995)

 

Instructions to students

 

There are two sections in the exam. 

 

The first section of the exam – Section A – involves a case study. Students will be required to answer four questions about the case study.

 

The second section of the exam – Scetion B – involves two essay questions.

 

 

It is expected that your response to the case study question should be approximaely 4-5 pages (single-spaced).

 

Your responses to the questions in Section B should be between 2-3 pages in length (single-spaced).

 

You should draw on lecture materials from Organisational change and the journal articles or other academic materials that we reviewed in classwhen answering the questions.

 

You need to ensure that you reference any academic material using the APA 6 ^th edition referencing style.