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Assessment Number
1
Assessment Type (and weighting)
Essay 4,500 words (100%)
Assessment Name
Leading Organizational Change to Sustain Competitive Advantage
Learning Outcomes Assessed:
LO1: Critically evaluate types of innovation/change and organisational and environmental inhibitors and accelerants.
LO2: Offer a balanced critical appraisal of relevant theory and concepts.
LO3: Apply relevant theory/concepts to a management scenario.
LO4: Offer a pragmatic evaluation, including routes to improve organisational management, with some originality and in an appropriate academic style.
Assessment Brief
Market-leading organizations habitually innovate, adjust quickly to new business conditions, and seize emerging opportunities before their competitors do. The critical question though, is not whether to change in response to their swiftly changing environment, but how to manage that change effectively.
The main discussion in this Assignment is to critically evaluate types of innovation/change and organisational and environmental inhibitors and accelerants, offer a balanced critical appraisal of relevant theory and concepts and apply relevant theory/concepts to a management scenario. Also, you must offer a pragmatic evaluation, including routes to improve organisational management, with some originality and in an appropriate academic style.
Reasoned and logical arguments should be developed and supported by appropriately researched literature. Reference should be made to the current accepted forms of Change Management theory which can be used to assist your explanation of the impact of rapid-fire change on contemporary organizations, and what managers must do to effectively lead the change process.
More specifically, students have to deal with the critical question confronting organizations today of how to manage change effectively. They have to consider questions like: what managers must do to effectively lead the change process, what does “organizational renewal” mean, how is evolution in the global economy affecting managerial roles and responsibilities, how is organizational design adapting to such evolutionary change, what are the greatest barriers to organizational change, what kind of programs are required to facilitate learning and the acquisition of new skills.
https://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/leading-change-and-organizational-renewal
References:
Essential. Tidd, J. (2013) Managing innovation: integrating technological, market and organizational change, Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, 5th Edition
A slightly older edition (of very similar content) is to be found online within Tidd, J., Bessant, J. and Pavit. K. (2005) Managing Innovation; Integrating technological, market and organisational change, Chichester, John Wiley, 3rd Edition.
See also Chapter 4 (on “N-Step Guides to Change”) of: Collins, D. (1998) Organizational change: sociological perspectives, Routledge, London Library reference 302.35/COL
Balogun, J. and Hope Hailey, V. (2008), Exploring strategic change Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2008 3rd ed
Journals: Harvard Business Review. Management Decision
Hayes, J. (2010) The theory and practice of change management, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 3rd ed.
The Science of Organizational Change and the Art of Changing Organizations
http://jab.sagepub.com/content/50/4/463.short
Organizational Culture, Leadership, Change and Stress
http://www.insead.edu/facultyresearch/research/doc.cfm?did=41924
Attitudes towards Organizational Change, Employee Relations
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=900541
The irrational side of change management – http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/organization/the_irrational_side_of_change_management
