Second submission: project outline
In this week’s activity, you will design an expanded change management framework to support your intended change process.
In your first submission to the Project requirements of this module, you produced a proposal that would identify a relevant change driver impacting upon an organisation with which you are familiar. The proposal would:
• Suggest a suitable change process that would appropriately respond to that change driver
• Identify likely stakeholder reactions to the change process you advocate
• Describe how an existing organisational design might be amended to best accommodate the planned change
In this activity, you will design an expanded change management framework to support your intended change process. This will, in turn, function as a base for the final change management project plan, due LATER ON.
Scenario reminder
Your role in this project is to identify a specific change driver that you consider especially relevant to an organisation of your choice. You are challenged to apply the theoretical principles discussed in this module to the specification of an appropriate process that will successfully respond to the demands of that change driver.
JETTLY WAS THE ORGANIZATION CHOSEN
• Review the material studied during the first weeks.
Prepare and submit a preliminary outline version (approximately 1,000 words) of what will eventually be your final Module Project report due later on.
Your outline version this week should contain the following sections:
• Organisational Profile: what is the name of the organisation you propose to use, where is it located, what is its primary business and approximately how many staff does it employ? (If there are any concerns about any aspect of commercial sensitivity, it is permissible to use an assumed name for the organisation you select).
• Organisational Structure: how are human and other resources arranged within this organisation, what levels of seniority exist and how are those levels of seniority connected through formal reporting lines? (A structure diagram would be useful here.) To what extent is the decision process centralised in the senior management team, and to what extent is it devolved to lower levels in the organisation?
• Change Drivers: to what extent does this organisation currently align with the principle of punctuated equilibrium? What are the factors in either or both of the external or internal operating environments that suggest a significant element of change is needed to the way in which this organisation works? Each change driver you identify should be categorised according to the criteria presented in relation to the Week 2 Deseret News case.
• Key Stakeholders: who are the individuals, groups and organisations who will be most directly affected by the type of change that is indicated by change driver analysis? To what extent do you expect each stakeholder’s reaction to be positive or negative? What are the primary ‘unanswered questions’ that you expect to receive?
• Change Initiative Overview: what is the primary aim of the change initiative that you recommend be introduced, and how could this initiative be classified in terms of the parameters suggested by Nasim & Sushil? How will success or failure in this initiative be measured? What ethical considerations need to be taken into account as the initiative is designed?