Assignment: Change
Management Proposal
Since
the health care environment is constantly changing and transforming, the
ability to manage and adapt to change is essential in health care
organizations. Change, whether prompted internally or externally or perceived
positively or negatively, can be unsettling, making it crucial that health care
administrators understand the change process. From implementation planning to
effectively communicating with employees and managing conflicts, administrators
must be prepared to manage change within their organizations. For this
Assignment, you examine an organization undergoing change and develop a change
management proposal.
To prepare for this Assignment:
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Review this week’s Learning Resources.
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Locate and select an organization where change is currently taking
place (or is scheduled to take place).
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Analyze the organization to develop a change management proposal.
The Assignment
In a
7- to 10-page proposal, address the following:
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Describe the specific organization including size, mission, and
location. Describe the change that is taking place (or is scheduled to take
place) in the organization.
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Analyze what is driving the change to take place.
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Given the parameters of the change, summarize the resistance or
conflict you might expect and why.
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Evaluate change management theories and models and select one to
apply to the change occurring in the organization. Support why you selected
this theory or model.
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Apply systems thinking to address the impact of the change
throughout the organization.
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Recommend strategies and innovations that could be implemented to
effect the organizational change and provide rationale for the recommendations.
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Explain the role that communication will play in your plan.
Analyze how communication could be used to handle concerns and doubts of
stakeholders.
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Recommend strategies you will use to motivate stakeholders and
prepare them to accept, embrace, and sustain the change. Categorize key groups
that you anticipate will require targeted motivation strategies.
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Recommend training and support required for the successful
implementation of the organizational change.
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Recommend strategies for sustaining an organizational change.
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Explain how stakeholders are involved in and held accountable for
the organizational change.
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Recommend ways to measure the success of the organizational change
and when transformational change has occurred.
Note: The change
management proposal should be 7–10 pages, not including the title and reference
pages. Include graphs or charts and a 1-page executive summary. Your Assignment
must be written in standard edited English. Be sure to support your work with
specific citations from this week’s Learning Resources and at least three
additional scholarly sources. Refer to the Essential Guide to APA Style for
Walden Students to ensure that your in-text citations and reference list
are correct. See the rubric for additional requirements related to research and
scholarly writing.
By Day 7
Submit your Assignment.
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