Organizational Change

Prepare a paper describing the essential tools and/or elements you would use to combat resistance to organizational change. Be sure to address:

• The role of shared diagnosis
• The importance of mutual engagement
• The use of consultant’s/change agents

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be 3-5 pages in length, which does not include the title page, abstract, or required reference page, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.
• Use academic writing standards and APA style guidelines.
• Support your submission with course material concepts, principles and theories from the textbook, and at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles.
• It is strongly encouraged that you submit all assignments into the Turnitin Originality Check prior to submitting it to your instructor for grading. If you are unsure how to submit an assignment into the Originality Check tool
• Review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment.

References:

Required

• Chapter 3 in Implementing Organizational Change
• Apostolopoulos, C., Halikias, G., Maroukian, K., & Tsaramirsis, G. (2016). Facilitating organisational decision making: A change risk assessment model case study. Journal of Modelling in Management, 11(2), 694-721.
• Sidani, Y., & Showail, S. (2013). Religious discourse and organizational change. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 26(6), 931-947.

Recommended

• Yeo, R. K., & Marquardt, M. J. (2015). Think before you act: Organizing structures of action in technology-induced change. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 28(4), 511-528.