Assignment #1: Types of Change

Part 1: Discuss a planned organizational change in your current or previous place of employment. In your paper, answer the following questions related to that change. Use concepts and theories from the lesson to support your responses.

• How was the change process utilized?
• What change strategies were implemented?
• How were you involved in the process?
• Was the change easily accepted by you and others?
• What feelings among the individuals affected by the change were generated before and after the process of change?
• Was the change maintained or did the organization return to the previous state of being?  Why?
• Apply a change theory to this change, i.e., compare steps of the theory to the process you observed.

Using Word, write a one-to-two page paper on Planned Organizational Change. Be sure to address each of the questions above. Once you have written your paper, submit it to the Types of Change - Planned Organizational Change Assignment Drop Box.

Assessment: This assignment is worth 25 points. This assignment will be manually graded by the instructor. Once you submit your answers, allow approximately 1 week from the due date for your feedback and grade to be available.

Part 2: Discuss an unplanned organizational change in your current or previous place of employment. In your paper, answer the following questions related to that change.

• How was the change process utilized?
• What change strategies were implemented?
• How were you involved in the process?
• Was the change easily accepted by you and others?
• What feelings among the individuals affected by the change were generated before and after the process of change?
• Was the change maintained or did the organization return to the previous state of being?  Why?
• Apply a change theory to this change.

Using Word, write a one-to-two page paper on Unplanned Organizational Change. Be sure to address each of the questions above. Once you have written your paper, submit to the Types of Change - Unplanned Organizational Change Assignment Drop Box.

Assessment: This assignment is worth 25 points. This assignment will be manually graded by the instructor. Once you submit your answers, allow approximately 1 week from the due date for your feedback and grade to be available.