Part 2: The Change Analysis – Images of Change (Due Week 2)
The “Images” section focuses on the six different images of
managing change and how each “approach” to change effects all that follows in
its implementation and continued support. Download the “Week 2 Project Images
Grid” from doc-sharing. Pick three of the “images of change” explained in the
Week 2 lecture from the grid, and analyze how those particular “images” would
affect the ensuing diagnosis and implementation in your two selected companies
on their change plans.
Here’s what to do:
1. Working
with the information that you provided in your topic proposal, and any feedback
you have received from your Professor, flesh out the facts and information from
your original proposal.
2. Review
the changes in each company and describe them thoroughly in a word document.
Explain how the change impacted the companies, and who it impacted. Compare
some of the similarities and differences between the change in the two
companies.
3. Look
at your grid and pick three images of change from your grid. Fill out the empty
blocks on the grid for those three images using outlines, bullet points, and
rough ideas for both company’s change.
4. Now,
in a Word document, analyze, compare and contrast the three images and explain
how the behaviors of those images would be different or the same during your
companies’ changes, and how those differences could (or did) impact the success
(or failure) of the change, comparing and contrasting the results at both
companies.
5. Explain
which image (or combination of images) you feel would have best facilitated the
described change and why.
6. Based
on the information you actually read about the results of this change, state
which image you think the leader of the change actually resembled the most. You
may speculate here on which image you feel best represents the “change agent”
at either or both of the companies. This will depend on how much information
you found about the internal workings of the company during the change.
This paper should focus on evidence that demonstrates how the
management of the organization integrated one or more of the six images of
managing change (Chapters 2 and 3) how effective the change was and what
management could have done differently to increase the probability of
successfully implementing the strategic change initiative. Again, this is a
compare and contrast paper – so include information about both companies in
your report.
