You are working with your project sponsor to decide on the optimal project management structure for an upcoming complex project that will involve more than 100 members. The project is similar in complexity to the Marriott Hotel headquarters relocation project, described in the Marriot International Headquarters Headquarters and Hotel Project on the Montgomery County MD … Read more
From the article, When Does Voice Lead to Exit? It Depends on Leadership, analyze the three characteristics that demonstrate readiness to lead change. Conclude which characteristics or behaviors tend to increase employee turnover and/or demonstrate the manager’s inability to properly lead change.
Conclude whether or not Kotter believes that all individuals who are resistant to change can gradually be “won over” in cases of significant change based on this week’s video, John Kotter – Resistance to ChangeLinks to an external site.. Discuss the implications, according to Kotter, of resistance to the change process.
Suggest three ways a mentor and an employee orientation program can assist new employees with their career development. Identify which of the three you value most and explain why. Share your experience with mentorship and how it supported your career progression.
Prepare Review, Creating Cultural Change in a 115-Year-Old R&D Organization, and be prepared to discuss. Respond It’s important to build a guiding coalition for your change. How did the organization in the discussion preparation article create a guiding coalition? Think about the change you are developing in your extended project. How will you create … Read more
From the video, John Kotter – Communicating a Vision for ChangeLinks to an external site., assess the means of communication that are available to us as leaders. Review Kotter’s comments regarding communication, and efficient and effective communications. As the leader of a large organization implementing a change, develop a strategy for communicating your vision of … Read more
Week 5 Discussion Discuss the effects of employee layoffs. Identify: Three ways that layoffs can affect other employees in the organization. Two additional ways that layoffs can affect the organization as a whole. At least two ways to retain remaining employees after a layoff. Two ways of ensuring that you are abiding by the … Read more
Health care faces critical staffing shortages. Imagine you are part of the executive management team researching health care shortages. Outline some of the staffing shortages in the market where you live. Are they consistent with national trends? Design a strategy that describes how your organization would alleviate some staffing shortages, including whether you would hire … Read more
Businesses achieve competitive advantage in recruitment through concerted strategic planning efforts. Propose and discuss at least three ways HR can use competitive advantage in the marketplace to recruit new, qualified applicants. Explain how technology has hindered or enhanced this process.
From readings in the textbook or peer-reviewed journal articles, analyze Michael Porter’s technique for a competitive analysis. Determine one factor for each of Porter’s five forces of an environmental analysis that would apply to a health care organization. Compare and contrast the answers to a competitor of the pediatric health care organization that you chose … Read more