Assignment 1
Primary Task Response: Within the Discussion Board area, write 400-600 words that respond to the following questions with your thoughts, ideas, and comments. This will be the foundation for future discussions by your classmates. Be substantive and clear, and use examples to reinforce your ideas.
The purpose of this discussion is for you to reflect on the personal relevance of your learning to your current and future professional success.
You have learned about leadership and management roles, ethical decision making, leading with values and a culture of integrity, developing a code of conduct through collaboration and communication, and leading change.
Identify and explain the value of at least 3 topics from the course to your current or future professional role.
Evaluate the effectiveness of any new behaviors or approaches you have applied.
Clarify, specifically, what new behaviors or approaches you plan to apply.
In your discussion, highlight at least 2 specific theories or models from the course that you find valuable to your professional practice.
Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 2 of your fellow classmates with at least a 100-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:
What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?
Assignment 2
Key Assignment
Deliverable Length: 1,200 words
Note: All character and company names are fictional and are not intended to depict any actual person or business.
Your work with UWEAR and PALEDENIM is coming to closure. You have sent an e-mail to the client requesting feedback on any final requests before you close the project. Teresa Tramlin, the chief executive officer (CEO), has sent you the following e-mail in response:
It has been a pleasure working with you on this project. For your final deliverable, we are requesting a comprehensive change management framework that we can use to build upon as we move forward. We realize that there is much to do to create the culture we envision and build allegiance to the merged organization. Mike and I need to fully understand our role as leaders as well as help our managers understand their role in building employee commitment. We look forward to your recommendation regarding strategies and tactics to successfully complete the merger, navigate through change, and align personnel, culminating in an effective, successful organization.
As you reflect on this final deliverable, you realize that the new values-driven culture, including the code of conduct, represents just part of the change faced by the newly merged organization. Other areas of change include, but are not limited to, work roles, reporting structure, and key business processes.
Assignment
Recommend a change strategy and process for Theresa and Mike to follow. Applying concepts from this unit and prior units in the course, create your recommendation for Theresa and Mike that addresses, but is not limited to, the following:
Overall change management model, such as Lewin, Kotter, or ADKAR
Explain the value of this model for the UWEAR-PALEDENIM scenario.
Recommend specific actions related to application of the selected model.
Managing the people side of change, including resistance
Key leadership and management behaviors for effective change
Identify topics about which you would like additional information to fully respond to the request for the change management framework. Research peer-reviewed journals in the library to learn more about those areas. Apply concepts from at least 2 articles that you researched to the development of your recommendation.
The materials found in the M.U.S.E. may help you with this assignment, such as the audio file Culture of Ethics. This file provides real-world experience that may help you with this assignment.
