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  1. ASHFORD MGT 435 Entire Course For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 5 Times, Rating: A+ ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 1 DQ 1 Examples of Organizational Change ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 1 DQ 2 Implementing Organizational Change ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 1 Quiz ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 2 DQ 1 Innovation ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 2 DQ 2 Change Models ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 2 Quiz ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 3 DQ 1 Tools of Organizational Change ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 3 DQ 2 Changes at the Top ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 3 Assignment Change Model ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 3 Quiz ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 4 DQ 1 Personal Experiences ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 4 DQ 2 Failures of Change ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 4 Quiz

  2. ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 5 DQ 1 Patnerships ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 5 DQ 2 Organizational Learning ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 5 Final Assignment Kotter’s 8 Step Approach ASHFORD 435 Week 5 Quiz ============================================== ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 1 DQ 1 Examples of Organizational Change For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 5 Times, Rating: A+ Examples of Organizational Change. View the Social Media Revolution video. We have all watched organizations around us change in response to technology, legislation, consumer demand, and other factors. Provide an example of an organization that has changed for the better and how this transition benefited its customers, employees, and investors. Review several of your peers’ posts. Discuss how and why these changes have occurred, with at least two of your peers. ==============================================

  3. ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 1 DQ 2 Implementing Organizational Change For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 5 Times, Rating: A+ Implementing Organizational Change. This post should be at least 200 words in length. Select one of the following approaches to understanding or implementing organizational change. Summarize this approach. Provide an example of how this information could be useful to an organization. Review several of your peers’ posts. Discuss any similar or opposing perspectives you have, with at least two of your peers. Take care to be professional and polite even if your beliefs or viewpoints differ. Dunphy and Stace’s Four Levels of Change Balogun and Hailey’s Change Model Proactive vs. Reactive Changes Strategic Change versus Tactical Change Tichy’s 3 Types of Change Open-systems Framework Balanced Scorecard The Stakeholder Approach ============================================== ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 1 Quiz

  4. For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 5 Times, Rating: A+ Week 1 1. Question: Which of the following is not the case with regard to climate change issues and company competiveness? 2. Question: Compared to reactive change, proactive changes initiated by organization leaders . . . 3. Question: Which of the following is a key factor in allowing a small business to remain competitive? 4. Question: Which of the following frameworks of effective organizational change focuses on the ethical behavior of organizational members and groups? 5. Question: Which of the following techniques might organizational development specialists utilize in their work? 6. Question: True or false? The field of change management studies is relatively new and such courses were not offered in most universities only three decades ago. 7. Question: Which of the following types of change consists of an implementation to achieve a known desired state that differs from an existent one?

  5. 8. Question: Which of the following is a Type 1 error that managers sometimes make in response to their perceptions of external e change? 9. Question: Which of the following is an example of proactive change? 10. Question: Which of the following most accurately characterizes the general goal of planned organizational change? ============================================== ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 2 DQ 1 Innovation For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 5 Times, Rating: A+ Innovation. View the Seth Godin video about innovation, Ideas that Spread, Win. Think of an innovative company and explain how its ability to adapt has enabled the organization to remain competitive in its industry. Review several of your peers’ posts. Discuss with at least two of your peers how these changes impacted employees or other organizational stakeholders. ==============================================

  6. ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 2 DQ 2 Change Models For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 5 Times, Rating: A+ Change Models. Select and compare two of the following change models: environment-industry-organization contingency, organizational life-cycle, action research model, eight-step approach, appreciative inquiry. Identify the pros and cons of the two models you selected. Review several of your peers’ posts. Discuss any similar or opposing perspectives you have, with at least two of your peers. Take care to be professional and polite even if your beliefs or viewpoints differ. ============================================== ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 2 Quiz For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 5 Times, Rating: A+ 1. Question: “Organizational Inertia” refers to

  7. 2. Question: Which organizational change model stresses the importance of applying a historical analysis of changes occurring over the course of a company’s development? 3. Question: Stage 5 of “The Development Life-Cycle of Organizations” is known as 4. Question: Second-order (discontinuous) changes are 5. Question: According to Lewin’s “Force-Field Analysis “to change resistance, change is the result of 6. Question: The task of preparing people for organizational change typically falls upon 7. Question: Resistance to organizational change can 8. Question: Which organizational change model asserts that there is no one right or best strategy that can predict organizational success? 9. Question: According to McKinsey and Kotter (1996), approximately what percentage of large organizational changes fails? 10. Question: In the “The Organizational life-Cycle Model,” growth through delegation typically occurs ============================================== ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 3 Assignment Change Model (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit

  8. www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 5 Times, Rating: A+ This Tutorial contains 2 Different Papers Change Model Assignment. Imagine that you are an executive for XYZ, Inc., a high-end retail chain that sells luxury watches, jewelry, and hand bags. You’ve just been put in charge of the company’s first international expansion, opening a store in Shanghai, China. This will be a short-term, small-scale change for the organization. After one year, you will be expected to begin opening additional stores in Brazil, Russia, India, and China (also known as the BRIC countries). This will be a long-term, large-scale change. In 3-5 pages, explain which change model you would follow for the short-term change and which you would follow for the long-term change. Provide rationale for your decision and discuss the effects that these changes would have on the employees, managers, and executives within the organization. Include at least two references and follow standard APA formatting for your paper. Carefully review the Grading Rubric for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment. ============================================== ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 3 DQ 1 Tools of Organizational Change

  9. For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 5 Times, Rating: A+ Tools of Organizational Change. Select one of the following tools: the nine steps in Ackerman and Anderson’s roadmap for change, Cummings and Worley’s five dimensions of leading and managing change, or the three components of organizational change. Explain how a leader could use this tool in guiding an organizational change. Review several of your peers’ posts. Respond to two peers who did not choose the same tool as you. Discuss the similarities and differences between the tools. ============================================== ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 3 DQ 2 Changes at the Top For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 5 Times, Rating: A+ Changes at the Top. View this video about Apple’s leadership, Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO. Explain what impact you think the loss of Steve Jobs will have on each the company’s primary stakeholder groups:

  10. customers, employees, and investors. In what ways to you think Tim Cook’s leadership might change Apple? Review several of your peers’ posts. Discuss any similar or opposing perspectives you have, with at least two of your peers. Take care to be professional and polite even if your beliefs or viewpoints differ. ============================================== ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 3 Quiz For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 5 Times, Rating: A+ 1. Question : True or false? The type of intervention that will be most effective is dependent upon the particular organizational dimensions. 2. Question : According to the “Stakeholder Matrix,” if the stakeholder is assessed as “Non-Supportive,” which of the following strategies should be used? 3. Question : When undertaking “stakeholder analysis” for preparing to manage the political dimensions of change, involving different individuals across the organization serves to make the process

  11. 4. Question : True or false? The “Functional Hierarchy” organizational structure was most prevalent in the technological era (1960’s-1980’s) 5. Question : In “Assigned Change Leadership Roles & Relationships,” the sponsor is typically 6. Question : At which of the following levels does aligning the organization to a new vision begin? 7. Question : Which American motor company did CEO Alan Mulally join to implement major change in 2006? 8. Question : In “Assigned Change Leadership Roles & Relationships,” the executive team is typically made up of 9. Question : The highest position on both axes of the “Stakeholder Matrix” is held by which of the following stakeholder types? 10. Question : HP’s Leo Apotheker’s bid to move the company entirely out of the PC business resulted in most stakeholders assuming which position on the “Stakeholder Matrix”? ============================================== ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 4 DQ 1 Personal Experiences For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com

  12. Tutorial Purchased: 5 Times, Rating: A+ Personal Experiences. View the video You Can Be Good at Change. Think of an organizational change that you experienced. Describe how you were impacted by the change. What could the leadership have done to make the transition more successful? Cite one or more change models to support your assertion. Review several of your peers’ posts. Compare your experiences with at least two peers and identify lessons you can apply to future organizational changes. ============================================== ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 4 DQ 2 Failures of Change For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 5 Times, Rating: A+ Failures of Change. Organizational change is not always successful. Identify factors that can cause change initiatives to fail and the five pillars that can cause them to succeed. Highlight an organization that failed to adapt and evaluate which of these factors and pillars were demonstrated by this organization. Review several of your peers’ posts. Discuss any similar or opposing perspectives you have, with at least two of your peers. Take care to be professional and polite even if your beliefs or viewpoints differ.

  13. ============================================== ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 4 Quiz For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 5 Times, Rating: A+ 1. Question : “Needs-based positioning” refers to 2. Question : Airline companies that attempt to improve customer relations by training their flight attendants, but not ticketing agents, are specifically guilty of 3. Question : The skills, knowledge, and experience of individuals or a workforce with regard to their value and costs as invested by an organization is known as 4. Question : True or false? According to Fisher and Taplan (2002), there is only one primary reason why organizational change programs fail 5. Question : According to Beeson (2011), “talent mindset companies” are firms that 6. Question : True or false? An organization cannot sustain change without first establishing a strong identity

  14. 7. Question : Which of the following organizations was guilty of failing to recognize the need for change? 8. Question : “Level 5 Leadership” style refers to leaders who tend to be 9. Question : True or false? “Data warehousing” refers to the high-tech analysis of a company’s data in order to make better strategic decisions. 10. Question : In order to facilitate the recruitment of the right talent, ”branding” is especially ============================================== ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 5 DQ 1 Patnerships For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 5 Times, Rating: A+ Partnerships. View the Malcolm Gladwell video, Malcolm Gladwell on Innovation, about today’s customers desiring partnerships. How does employee empowerment aid in building partnerships between companies and their customers? Provide an example from your experience as an employee or customer. Construct your answer from the theories you’ve learned. Review several of your peers’ posts. Compare your experiences

  15. with at least two peers and identify lessons you can apply in your future work ============================================== ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 5 DQ 2 Organizational Learning For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 5 Times, Rating: A+ Organizational Learning. Evaluate the importance of organizational learning. Provide examples of how learning and change can impact one another. Review several of your peers’ posts. Discuss any similar or opposing perspectives you have, with at least two of your peers. Take care to be professional and polite even if your beliefs or viewpoints differ. ============================================== ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 5 Final Assignment Kotter’s 8 Step Approach (2 Papers) For more course tutorials visit

  16. www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 5 Times, Rating: A+ This Tutorial contains 2 Different Papers Focus of the Final Paper Think of an organization you have worked for or one with which you are very familiar. Diagnose the need for change and present a plan to transform the organization, utilizing Kotter’s 8-Step Approach. Include the following sections headings and additional sections as needed: 1. Introduction 2. Company Overview 3. Diagnosis 4. Kotter’s 8-Step Approach 5. Conclusion The Final Paper for the course must be submitted to the instructor by 11:59 p.m. of the time zone in which you reside on the last day of the class. ============================================== ASHFORD MGT 435 Week 5 Quiz

  17. For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Tutorial Purchased: 5 Times, Rating: A+ 1. Question : Of the following, which is one of the most serious liabilities of the traditional, hierarchical organizational structure, as opposed to the modern, more decentralized approach? 2. Question : Which of the following represents a “soft” dimension of change? 3. Question : In Rowden’s (2009) four traits of learning organizations, continuous planning, reflection, and adjustment exemplifies 4. Question : The concept of a “learning organization” was introduced by 5. Question : The point of Senge’s “Parable of the Boiled Frog” is 6. Question : True or false? In the modern environment of effective organizational leadership, communication and collaboration take priority over dictatorial authority. 7. Question : Which of the following is true in organization with a “flattened” layer of management?

  18. 8. Question : An employee who fails to recognize that she is one part of the whole (organization) exhibits which of the following “learning disabilities”? 9. Question : True or false? “Shared vision” begins at the common worker level 10. Question : Which of the following is a typical quality of an “agile” organization? ==============================================

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