The goal of your Final Paper is to describe how you would implement a major program of organizational change as if you were a senior leader of the company, using the following approach:
- Six Sigma
Additionally, the Final Papers purpose is to draw upon as much of the course material as possible, but specifically from Units 5 -7.
In this assignment, you will create a draft of your final paper.
Instructions:
The requirements for your paper are:
Research the initiative of Disney:
o What is at issue here?
o How will it affect large scale organizational change?
o What is the company you selected doing in this regard?
Answer/address these questions:
o What is meant by organizational change approach selection (i.e. Six Sigma.)?
o What specific goals do you hope to achieve with this program? For example, improve Return on Investment, Market Share, reduction in errors, etc
o How will these goals be measured?
o How will the program be implemented?
o How will the company be structured to achieve these results? o How will buy-in by the employees be gained?
o What is the role of leadership/management in the implementation of your selected organizational change approach selection?
o Discuss the implications for organizational culture
It is important that you are as specific as possible and that you use terms and information gleaned from the text and from research! All research citations must be in APA formatting.
Your draft will include all of the required elements of your Final Paper:
Requirements:
Specific, real world examples are preferred where possible (discovered by research). For example, how did a company like Continental Airlines restructure themselves? How do these examples reflect concepts we are studying? If you
must make assumptions to supplement the material you find, if insufficient real world examples exist, then please identify when you have done so.
You are expected to review the feedback left for you and incorporate it into your final Paper that you wuill submit in Unit 7. The Final Draft will receive a grade of 0 if any of the preceding deliverables are not turned in as directed.
- APA formatted using double spaced, 12 point Times New Roman font.
- APA formatted title and reference pages.
- The page length should be at least 8 pages, excluding title, abstract, or reference
pages. - Use normal headings.
- Use of bullets acceptable, where appropriate, however, the entire work should
not be bullets. - Graphics are fine, but no more than three which do not take up more than 14 of
the page. - A minimum of 3 separate citations is required.
- In addressing the questions posed, it is preferable that your paper flow as a
coherent narrative, rather than organizing your paper around the questions; embed your responses to the questions in the paper.
