Question 4: Change
Management and Management Styles
Instructions: As economic times change, management styles
have changed
accordingly. New
concepts and issues of management styles have been
analyzed, synthesized, and evaluated to meet the changing
needs of the
marketplace. The
concept of change management has gained great
acceptance and/or disapproval by all sectors, including
civilian and
military.
Katzenbach (1995) wrote that “Real change leaders are the linchpins
connecting three critical forces for organizational change
and
performance: top
leadership aspirations (what are we trying to
become?); workforce energy and productivity (how will we
climb the
mountain?); and the marketplace reality (what do our target
customers
truly seek, and what can and will our potential competitors
really
do?) (pp. 8-9).
• Discuss 3 to 5
changes that have or are occurring in
organizational life or in your discipline today.
• Identify and
discuss the benefits and challenges of two or three
change management theories as proposed in the practice and
discipline
of management. .
• Using one of the
change management theories you discussed, analyze
two of the five changes you identified in your field to
determine if
there have been periods of time in which leaders in the
field, as well
as actual practitioners in the field, have had to address
the issue of
change management.
Specifically, this analysis should be based on a
synthesis of the current literature (and literature no older
than
1995) to demonstrate how leaders in your field of study have
addressed
the issue of change management – as well as any changes in
management
style.
• Relate these
specific changes to your own current, previous,
and/or future career paths.
This analysis should help to reveal how
you have seen changes occur over the past decade or so in
your field.
• Finally, what
possible changes, suggestions and/or recommendations
would you consider to be necessary in management in order
for
effective change of organizations in the future?
Submission: Note the Submissions Guidelines as listed in the
Syllabus:
The various assignments for this course should be submitted
as
Word.doc attachments in the Assignment section of our
virtual
classroom. Each file should be named in the following
manner: Last
name–truncated Week Number-Assignment name (abbreviated if
necessary)
For example: Smith-Wk05-Practice Question #4
