Managing Change Creativity And Innovation 3rd Edition Patrick Dawson , Constantine Andriopoulos - Solutions

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Discuss why it is not always desirable or even possible to use output-based pay.
Read the “Plastco Packaging” case in the Appendix. The Plastco machine operators appear to be suffering from low job satisfaction and motivation. Develop a plan for solving these problems by redesigning these jobs to add more intrinsic rewards. Besides these changes to job design, can you
Analyze the “Henderson Printing” case in the Appendix. Why do you think there is a high turnover of new employees? What concepts may help explain employee reactions to the compensation system? Do you think the compensation system is fair? Is it effective? What principles for effective reward
Using a diagram, show the linkages (with arrows) between an organization’s strategy, reward systems, employee attitudes and behaviours, and employee productivity. Acceptable file types: PDF and Image (PNG, JPEG, or JPG).
This chapter contained two examples of auto companies—Toyota (Compensation Today 3.1) and CAMI (Compensation Today 3.2)—that apparently wanted to adopt a high-involvement managerial strategy. Adopting high involvement was not successful at CAMI but was very successful at Toyota. Are there any
In a group of four to six people, discuss situations in which employees experienced reward dissatisfaction. What caused that dissatisfaction? How did people react to it? What were the consequences for the organization? Were they serious consequences? Why or why not?
Go to Queendom and browse through the free personality and values tests. Identify at least one test that would be relevant to employee motivation, and take that test. Discuss what it tells you about your own motivation pattern, and how it might relate to the reward strategy that would best motivate
Discuss the key aspects of expectancy theory. What are the practical implications of this theory for managers?
Discuss how reward systems can be used to generate task behaviour, membership behaviour, and citizenship behaviour.
Discuss how employee job attitudes serve as the link between reward systems and employee job behaviour.
Discuss the main types of reward problems. Have you ever encountered any of these problems?
Read the “Multi-Products Corporation” in the Appendix. Which managerial strategy would be most effective for this firm? What reward and compensation strategy would fit this managerial strategy? What problems might you encounter in using this managerial strategy?
Read “The Fit Stop Ltd.” case in the Appendix. Which managerial strategy would be most effective for this firm? Given what you know about Susan Superfit, which managerial strategy do you think she would prefer to use? Does this match your choice?
Read the “Achtymichuk Machine Works” case in the Appendix, Achtymichuk is having a lot of trouble motivating and retaining its cleaners. To get as many ideas as possible for solving this problem, management have hired three different consultants. One is an adherent of the classical managerial
Take an organization that you know well, such as a current or former employer, and apply the template in Compensation Notebook 2.2 to determine the most appropriate managerial strategy for that firm. Does this match the managerial strategy actually in use? If not, why not? Do you agree with what
Go to the website for the Canadian HR Reporter and click on Payroll. From the stories that have been published in recent months, what seem to be the key themes and concerns in relation to compensation?
Discuss recent trends in compensation practices taking place in North America and explain what may be causing those trends.
Using the concept of fit, discuss the types of compensation and rewards that would work best for each of the three managerial strategies.
“If a compensation system works well for one business, that same compensation system should also work well for other businesses.” Discuss whether this statement is true, and why or why not.
Read the “Henderson Printing” case in the Appendix. What is your assessment of the compensation system in place? Do you think it meets the criteria for an effective compensation system as set out in Compensation Notebook 1.1? Which criteria does it meet, and which does it violate?
In a small group, discuss your experiences (or those you know) with an internship. Was it for free? Do you believe that the unpaid internship met the legal criteria for identified in Compensation Today 1.2? What are your thoughts on unpaid internships?
Using Salary Wizard, what conclusions can you draw about variations in pay level in different parts of Canada? Pick two or three different jobs to make your comparisons across the country?
Discuss the five steps in designing an effective compensation system.
1. What industry conditions lead to the revolution in audio distribution described above? Which stakeholders stand to benefit most (or least) from this revolution? 2. Why did the music stores created by the record labels fail to attract many subscribers? What, if anything, should the record labels
Pick a company you are familiar with. Can you identify some of its core competencies?
1. What are some of the challenges and opportunities of competing in the hotel industry? How do you think the hotel industry (or travel industry more generally) has changed over time?2. Can you identify different customer groups in the hotel industry? What are some of the ways that hotels attract
1. Why did the first social networking sites fail? Is there anything they could have done to survive?2. What factors made MySpace more successful than Friendster and SixDegrees.com? What factors enabled Facebook to overtake MySpace?3. Are there significant switching costs that lock users into a
1. What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of mobile payment systems in a) developed countries and b) developing countries?2. What are the key factors that differentiate the different mobile payment systems? Which factors do consumers care most about? Which factors do merchants care most
1. Is the Tesla Model S a radical innovation or an incremental innovation? Competence enhancing or destroying, and from whose perspective? Is it a component or an architectural innovation?2. What factors do you think influence the rate at which consumers have adopted (or will adopt) the Tesla Model
=+4. What did it do to create its reputation? (As a tourist destination and/or place to work/live)
=+3. How does it attract and retain creative talent?
=+2. Is it important to have an arts district?
=+1. What are the key elements of their chosen creative city?
=+9. Will the new creative epoch benefit the few at the expense of the many, or are these developments likely to improve the economic and social well-being of people in society?
=+8. To what uses should ordinary people – those often viewed as merely consumers – put their expanding digital access to use in developing and experimenting with their own creative opportunities?
=+7. Who are the creative class? Why is it important to encourage diversity and openmindedness in our cities?
=+6. What do you feel are the key ingredients required to support and nurture the development of creative cities and regions?
=+5. What role does creativity play in innovation in contemporary cultural and economic life?
=+4. What is organizational ambidexterity? Why is it important to pursue both incremental and radical innovation?
=+3. Why is the creative economy important to the health of a nation’s economy and, in your opinion, what factors account for the increased policy attention given to these creative sectors?
=+2. Do you think that there are other sectors that should be included? Use examples to illustrate your points.
=+1. Do you agree with the classification of creative sectors? Why or why not?
=+3. Evaluate the extent to which Handy’s notion of the elephant and flea usefully captures the experience of Preneur, and then assess whether you consider this to be an increasing phenomenon of our time.
=+2. How far can we use Florida’s 3-T model of Technology, Tolerance and Talent to explain the emergence of forms of nomadic entrepreneurship?
=+1. Reflect and then note down the elements of this case that: (a) suggest that this is an example of a new form of creative entrepreneur; or (b) simply indicate the continuity of entrepreneurial activity in cities like London; or (c) suggest a mixture of the two. Explain your answer.
=+3. If incremental and radical innovations are both important, what percentage of resources should be allocated to developing each of these avenues, and how can your successfully manage and adjust strategies and plans for a future that is as yet unknown?
=+2. Apple is well positioned, well resourced and a financial giant but it also needs to build on strengths and opportunities. Which strategic direction would you recommend and why?
=+1. Reflect on whether the 2016 decline in market share price is a one-off or more serious issue, and consider whether it is possible to identify any future threats or challenges that should be addressed?
=+3. In your opinion, what are the major potential pitfalls to the continuing success of this company, and how would you set about making sure that strategies were in place to accommodate such eventualities?
=+2. How exemplary is Amazon to this new creative era, and what are the characteristics of Amazon that mark the company as a truly innovative and creative company of the twentyfirst century?
=+1. How important is Jeff Bezos (the founder and CEO of Amazon.com) to the spectacular success of this company?
=+creating and sustaining a culture of change, creativity and innovation.
=+Assess the importance of creative places (cities, regions, communities, organizations) to
=+Explain Florida’s 3-T model and discuss the issues and debates around the rise of the creative class.
=+Understand the changing need for more adaptive forms of organizing and ambidextrous firms.
=+Appraise whether the current focus on the industrial and commercial aspects of creative industries is undermining essential creative processes through downplaying the importance of the more artistic and cultural dimensions.
=+Evaluate the importance of creative industries to national economies and explore the number and type of people who are involved in them.
=+Outline and describe the different creative industry subgroups that constitute the new creative economy.
=+Debate the nature of these developments and their implications for work, employment and society.
=+Identify and discuss the range of factors that are driving developments towards a new age of creativity.
=+6. From the change models and frameworks that you have examined and discussed in Chapters 7, 8 and 9, identify your preferred approach and explain your reasons why.
=+5. Assess whether the hybridization of ideas and the fusion of concepts in new and emerging change models are enabling greater insights into processes of change or simply undermining the principles of established schools of thought.
=+4. Critically appraise the pros and cons of a processual approach to understanding change.
=+3. Evaluate the statement that change agents ‘will often be forced by necessity to act treacherously, ruthlessly and inhumanely’ (Skinner, 2000: 43).
=+2. How useful is storytelling and narrative analysis for understanding and making sense of change processes?
=+1. Reflect on the importance of time for understanding change and discuss whether distinctions between objective and subjective time are useful or unhelpful in making sense of change processes.
=+3. Do you agree with Buchanan and Badham (2008) that managing change is a ‘blood sport’and that change agents should shed any pretence of innocence, ‘play the turf game’ and aim to win on their own terms?
=+2. What are the ethical issues that arise from this brief example?
=+1. Explain why, or why not, you feel that management were justified in their decision to sack the night shift?
=+Dawson’s processual perspective on organizational change
=+Buchanan and Badham’s political entrepreneurial approach to change management.
=+Identity and change as a multi-story political process.
=+The importance of temporality and non-linear time as lived experience.
=+The centrality of context, culture and history.
=+The historical development of the processual–contextual school of thought.
=+The difference between sequential models and process-oriented approaches to change.
=+9. Reflect on the notions of objective and subjective, then consider whether there is a clear division between the two or whether the boundaries blur.
=+8. In drawing on a familiar change example, evaluate which of the frames or models discussed in this chapter would best align and explain the reasons why.
=+7. Provide a critical assessment of appreciative inquiry, setting out the advantages and disadvantages of the approach for: (a) understanding processes of change; (b) planning processes of change; and (c) enabling improvisational and emergent change to occur.
=+6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of Jabri’s model that combines Lewin’s three stages of change with a more process-oriented dialogical approach?
=+5. Outline the key components of the change kaleidoscope framework and evaluate the practical value of the approach for managing organizational change.
=+4. Explain what you understand by the term ‘the art and practice of the learning organization’ and outline some of the main strengths and weaknesses of this approach.
=+3. Construct a table that compares and contrasts the similarities and differences between diagnostic and dialogical OD.
=+2. Identify and discuss the key underlying principles of the ‘new’ dialogical organizational development approach to organizational change.
=+1. In a foreword to Bushe and Marshak’s (2015) Dialogic Organization Development, Edgar Schein (2015) claims that: ‘Dialogic Organizational Development (OD) could not have arrived at a better time. The assumptions underlying it and some of the goals for social change and improvement that it
=+What do you see as some of the advantages and disadvantages of these strategies and are there other options you can identify from your reading of the case?
=+2. Reflect on the following three potential strategies for managing successful transition, namely: providing disability day service programmes within an aged care setting; providing periods of respite to build trusting relationships; and providing cluster residential options to encourage
=+These and other questions should be considered in individual and group discussion on the theory and practice of managing complex change.
=+ Should change be initiated across the relevant organizations and how could this be accomplished and managed?
=+Will the external drivers for change with growing demand for more integrative services force governments to take action?
=+ Should attention be placed on political lobbying and strategies for policy change?
=+1. How would you set about trying to manage change?
=+Debate the key challenges faced by OD with the growing diversity of approaches and the implications of these for maintaining a focus on developing practical OD theories.
=+Evaluate the change kaleidoscope and assess its theoretical orientation as a diagnostic tool that accommodates interpretive frames.
=+Provide an appreciation of Senge’s notion of the learning organization.
=+Understand how new OD approaches have not simply replaced conventional OD in the development of hybrid models.
=+Compare and contrast dialogical with diagnostic approaches to organizational change.
=+Summarize a number of interpretative OD models that view reality as multiple, emerging and co-constructed through the social negotiations that occur through stories and other forms of communication.
=+Outline the essential elements of the dialogical Organizational Development (OD) approach to change.
=+6. Provide a critical assessment of Kotter’s idea of a dual operating system for making change happen in an accelerating world.

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