ORGANIZATION CHANGE MIDTERM 1

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Director

Believe change can be planned and controlled

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Navigator

Managers guide change but cannot fully control all outcomes.

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Caretaker

  • Managers have limited control because outside forces (powerful internal and external forces) are stronger

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Coach

developing employee skills and capabilities

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Interpreter

Managers create meaning and help people make sense of change.

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Nurturer

Managers nurture conditions that allow positive change to emerge.

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External Pressures

Forces outside the company causing change EX Competition ,Demography, Technology, Reputation

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Internal Pressure

Forces inside the company causing change. Growth, New CEO, Corporate identity

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Gap Analysis

A tool that asks: Where are we? Where do we want to be? How do we get there?

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PESTLE

A framework used to analyze external environmental factors.

Political
Economic
Social
Technological
Legal
Ecological

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Force-Field Analysis

A tool that identifies forces helping and resisting change.

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Stakeholder Analysis

A tool used to identify stakeholder power, interest, and influence.

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CW 3-Level Framework

A model that analyzes organizational, group, and individual factors.

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Organization Level

Examines strategy, structure, culture, and organizational effectiveness.

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Group Level

Examines team goals, norms, and effectiveness.

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Individual Level

Examines Single employee. skills, autonomy, feedback, and performance.

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First-Order Change

Small improvement that improves existing systems. EX Changing store hours.

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Second-Order Change

Major Transformational change that fundamentally changes systems or structures. EX Switching from paper scheduling to digital scheduling.

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Third-Order Change

Changes beliefs and assumptions that changes underlying ways of thinking

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Product Innovation

The development of new or improved products and services.

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Operational Innovation

The introduction of new methods or processes that improve operations.

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Sustaining Innovation

Makes existing products better

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Disruptive Innovation

Innovation that creates a new industry or transforms an existing one.

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Organizational Culture

The shared values, beliefs, and norms that influence behaviour

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Vision

A desired future state that guides organizational change

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Mission

A statement describing what the organization does and why it exists.

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Effective Vision

A vision that is possible, desirable, actionable, and clearly articulated.

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Vision Components

What makes up a vision.

  • Why change is needed

  • Future goal

  • Actions required

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Why Visions Fail

Visions fail when they are vague, unrealistic, irrelevant, or overly complex.

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Six Images Framework

Management Style + Change Outcomes = Image of Change Manager

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Controlling Images

Director
Navigator
Caretaker

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Shaping Images

Coach
Interpreter
Nurturer

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Intended Outcomes

Director
Coach

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Partially Intended Outcomes

Navigator
Interpreter

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Unintended Outcomes

Caretaker
Nurturer

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Systems Approach

Organization viewed as a system of:

  • Inputs

  • Transformation Process

  • Outputs

  • Feedback

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Open System

Interacts with and responds to its environment.

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Closed System

Little interaction with the external environment

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Images of Managing

  • Controlling

  • Shaping

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Change Outcomes

  • Intended

  • Partially Intended

  • Unintended

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Controlling

Management focuses on directing and controlling activities.

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Shaping

Management focuses on developing capabilities and participation.

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Intended Outcomes

Planned change outcomes are achievable.

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Partially Intended Outcomes

Some outcomes occur as planned, others do not.

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Unintended Outcomes

Many outcomes are beyond the manager's control.

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Economic Perspective

Focuses on shareholder value and organizational performance.

Associated with:

  • Director

  • Navigator

  • Caretaker

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Organizational Learning Perspective

Focuses on developing capabilities and adaptability.

Associated with:

  • Coach

  • Interpreter

  • Nurturer

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External Pressures

Forces outside the organization that drive change.

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Internal Drivers

Forces within the organization that drive change.

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Threat-Rigidity

Pressure causes organizations to become more rigid instead of adapting.

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Bridging

Adapting to changes in the external environment.

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Buffering

Protecting the organization from environmental changes.

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7-S Framework

Structure, Systems, Style, Staff, Skills, Strategy, Superordinate Goals

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Six-Box Model

Purpose, Structure, Rewards, Helpful Mechanisms, Relationships, Leadership

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Star Model

Strategy, Structure, Processes, Reward Systems, People Practices

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Four-Frame Model

Structural, Human Resource, Political, Symbolic

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Receptive Organizational Context

Measures how ready an organization is for change.

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Absorptive Capacity

Ability to acquire, understand, transform, and use new knowledge.

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SWOT

Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats

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Porter's Five Forces

Supplier Power, Buyer Power, Threat of Substitutes, Threat of Entry, Competitive Rivalry

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Planned Change

Change that is intentionally designed and implemented.

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Emergent Change

Change that develops naturally over time.

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Incremental Change

Small, gradual improvements.

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Transformational Change

Large-scale fundamental change.

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Five Habits of Disruptive Innovators

Associating, Questioning, Observing, Experimenting, Networking

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Digitalization Opportunities

  • Enhance interaction

  • Improve decisions

  • Create new business models

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Vision Components

  • Why change is needed

  • Desired future

  • Actions required

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Characteristics of Effective Vision

  • Possibility

  • Desirability

  • Actionability

  • Articulation

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Vision Failure

Too vague, specific, unrealistic, complex, or irrelevant