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Appreciate the importance of political entrepreneurship in managing organizational change through examining the framework of Buchanan and Badham (2020).
Understand the significance of political processes in organizations.
Be aware that there is an association and difference between power and politics.
Gain an appreciation of the different conceptions of power and how there are different faces of power.
7. First, imagine an organization with a dysfunctional culture (behaviours and practices not acceptable and ethically dubious), then develop a strategy for managing cultural change in this organization.
6. Is organizational culture something an organization is or has?
5. Explain and evaluate the concepts of sensemaking and sensegiving.
4. What is non-verbal communication and how important is it to change processes?
3. Compare and contrast programmatic and participatory change communication strategies.
2. Summarize what you understand by the communication process.
4. Does this case illustrate that an organizational culture is something that simply is and not manageable or something that an organization has and something that we can manage?
1. What organizational culture does JPI exhibit, and how has this changed over time?
4. Itqan: To continuously search for self-improvement and perfection in the conscientious development of oneself.
3. Shura: To always seek out other opinions, views and advice (consultation)before making a final decision.
2. Taqwa: To engage and act in work as if your God is always watching over you, to self-monitor behaviours, to ensure honesty and at all times to fear God.
1. Amanah: This means in Arabic to be obligated to uphold one’s trusts and duties, a type of moral responsibility for fulfilling one’s obligations.
3. Is there a broader organizational culture? What is it, and how does it differ from the professional subcultures that exist within HCS?
3. Drawing on your own experience, identify and describe relevant examples of gossip and/or confidential gossip that illustrate the importance of these forms of informal communication in the workplace.
2. What makes gossip and confidential gossip significant as particular forms of informal communication?
1. What is informal communication and why is it important for organizational change processes?
4. Would you see this as a commitment, compliance or collaborative approach to change? Explain why.
Be aware that different subcultural groupings are common in organizations.
Understand the concept and debate on organizational culture.
Gain insight into the social processes and group dynamics by which people make and give sense to their experiences of change.
Recognize the significance of informal communication in shaping perspectives and the place of gossip and confidential gossip in the workplace.
Appreciate the importance of communication, especially with regard to leading change, gaining commitment and promoting employee involvement.
Discuss the notion of readiness for change.
4. How could you bring more or your authentic self to work?
3. What are the cost of these masks for your personal life, well-being and effectiveness as a leader?
Appreciate the contradictions of change through reflecting on the choices that face companies and the concerns that face scholars.
Identify the main elements of a changing business context that often drive change and shape strategic choices on the future direction of organizations.
5. Are Palmer and colleagues’ (2017: 52) six images (ideal types) of managing change useful for understanding the changes that happened in this case study? Explain your answer based on the case material, the literature and your own experiences at work.
4. Discuss the management style of the Managing Director and evaluate the effects that this may have had on change at MyBank.
Recognize the convergence and fragmentation that have arisen in the movement from conventional approaches to postmodern developments.
Be aware of the four foundational theories that underpin change models and frameworks.
Comprehend the difference between positivism and interpretivism, and the meaning of ontology and epistemology.
2. Compile a list of current and future challenges – drawing on any examples with which you are familiar – then write one or two sentences on each explaining the nature of the challenge and their link (if any) to innovation, creativity and change.Once the work is completed form into groups and
7. What are the three major implications for the future given technology developments and digitalization, the greater interconnectivity and networked nature of business operations, the volatility of markets and the growing income and wealth divide between those at the top and the remaining
3. The market environment, technology and the social aspects of work are all equally important in the effective design of organizations – do you agree?
3. In drawing on this chapter and your own knowledge and experience, compare and contrast future potential scenarios and evaluate the evidence that supports optimism or pessimism in formulating your own view on the changes that may eventuate and become a reality in 2030.
2. What are the alternatives in the future development of business and management and are there opportunities from these trends for wider participation in more innovative and creative ventures, and in activities that are more fulfilling and engaging?
1. Are the trends depicted of growing wealth and income inequality likely to be of long-term significance and if so, what are their major implications for business and society?
Recognize the importance of history and context in the generation of new ideas, concepts and theories. Also to identify and clarify the key drivers that shape management practice and theory development.
Examine contextual trends and prospective scenarios that raise future challenges in a transitional digital world where jobs are becoming increasingly precarious and the disparities in income and wealth are widening.
Outline the rise of consultant and guru management literatures and the promotion of popular ideas including best practice recipes and the need to upturn conventional assumptions in the reinvention of management.
Overview the historical movement between more mechanistic approaches to management and more human-oriented approaches including scientific management, human relations, socio-technical systems and contingency theory.
Appreciate the importance of the Industrial Revolution to the growth in international trade and the emergence of contemporary business organizations.
Understand how theory is historically located and links with practical business problems.
1. Who are the major players in this industry? (Reflect on your findings, for example, do the companies that dominate align with those you thought of initially?)2. What is the size of the market?3. How many people work in the industry?4. What potential difficulties do you see for existing companies
6. Compare and contrast Tidd and Bessant’s process model of innovation with Bower and Christensen’s explanation of disruptive innovation.
5. What are the main types of innovation? Identify relevant examples.
4. Do you agree with the main myths that surround creativity? Why or why not?
3. Reflect on your own view on creativity and comment on the strengths and weaknesses of the definition that we put forward.
2. Identify and discuss the main drivers to change. Which ones do you feel are most important under current conditions? Explain your answer.
1. Summarize the key dimensions of organizational change.
5. Jack Nicklaus came up with a new golf swing from a dream, which improved his golfing position following a downturn in 1964.
4. Robert Louis Stevenson conceived the classic novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde through a dream.
3. Elias Howe resolved a problem he had been thinking over for some time through a dream. A group of natives who had spears with holes near their tips took him prisoner. On awakening and locating a hole at the top of a needle, he invented the sewing machine in 1945.
2. In her introduction to Frankenstein, Mary Shelley describes how she dreamed of a ‘hideous phantom’ that terrified her and realized that she could use this material to create a character that would haunt her readers and this inspired her to write the book.
1. Paul McCartney has recounted how he dreamed of the tune ‘Yesterday’whilst sleeping in an attic room of his family’s house in London.
3. Think of a problem before going to bed. In the morning try keeping your eyes shut first thing when you wake and try to process any dreams –often when we get straight up we forget our dreams. Did they have anything to do with the problem or issue that you were thinking about before you went to
2. Reflect on the suggestion that problems at the forefront of our mind may continue to be processed and resolved within our dreams.
1. Consider the experience of dreaming over the past 12 months and the extent to which this has stimulated new ideas and ways of thinking.
Broaden your knowledge of the complex and processual nature of organizational change, creativity and innovation.
Gain greater awareness of the key theories, concepts and models of innovation.
Appreciate the debates around creative process and creative thinking.
Identify the key dimensions and triggers to organizational change.
Understand the concepts of change, creativity and innovation.
1. Consider and discuss the nature of the relationship between our three key concepts of change, creativity and innovation. Do this by first providing and discussing examples of each; and second, by using these discussions to evaluate and reflect upon the interconnections of our concepts and the
2. The gig economy is detrimental to a fair distribution of income in society and likely to further wealth inequalities and heighten divisions.
1. The gig economy provides job opportunities with greater freedom to pursue other activities outside of the restrictions imposed by the time commitments of full-time employment.
Be aware of the challenges and opportunities of a rapidly changing environment for people in organizations and the gig economy.
Provide an understanding of change, creativity and innovation that enables you to differentiate between these three terms whilst recognizing that they overlap and interconnect.
Explain why change, creativity and innovation are essential for survival and growth.
1 A pply the change capability framework to your own organization or one with which you are familiar. How does doing so help you identify how much change the organization could handle now and how its change capability might be enhanced?
4 H ow would you characterize the culture of your organization? What implications does this carry for successful organizational change?
3 D o corporate politics play a positive role in change?
2 H ow was the politics of this merger resolved and worked through?
1 T o what extent and in which ways does corporate culture provide a meaningful way of looking at the case study?
3 W hat is the role of the leader in change as far as promoting learning and development is concerned?
2 T o what extent do crisis and turnaround generate special change characteristics and demands?
1 W hat now is your assessment of the approach to change adopted by ABF? To what extent is ABF really f ocused on mind- set c hange?
3 C omplete the s elf- a ssessment exercise. What issues arise for your own development of change management skills?
2 C omplete the implementation exercise on that change situation. What key implementation issues emerge?
1 C onsider a change situation with which you are familiar. Analyse it using force field analysis.
2 Apply them to the BBC case study.
1 A pply the various methods introduced in this chapter to change situations with which you are familiar.
3 C an you apply the coping cycle model to any change you have experienced?
2 H ow important is the corporate culture? To what extent does corporate culture affect innovation?
1 C an you identify any means by which the method for implementing change in company B(page230) took account of the coping cycle model?
4 H ow authentic do you think the diagnosis of Health Service Trust and of ABF Ltd would be?
3 C ritically evaluate the five options presented to Health Service Trust.
2 W hat are the three or four most important issues which International Engineering must focus on if it is to increase its effectiveness?
1 T o what extent could International Engineering be said to be efficient?
3 W hat management styles might promote more effective change in the case of ABF Ltd?
2 H ow important is benchmarking as a component of change strategy?
1 W hat do you think are the key features of ABF’s change strategy?
3 How does your company seek to ‘capture’ knowledge?
2 C an you identify an example of tacit knowledge – about product, processes or customers – in your own situation?
1 I s your own organization a learning organization? Explain.

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