$4-3$: Learning from Change Failure

Purpose

This assignment is intended to help you apply learning from the analysis of organizational change failures.

Action Items

View the video

$"7$ Reasons Why Change Can Fail."Links to an external site.

View a counter video on the myths of change failure: $"$Do $70\%$ of Organizational Change Projects Really Fail?"Links to an external site.

Prepare a $1-$ to $2-$page paper that:

Discusses your thoughts about the objectivity of reported change failure research.

Describes an example from your own experience of an organizational change failure and what you learned from it$.$

Notes what lessons learned from the videos that might be applicable in your own work life.

Given what you have just learned about change failure, would you respond any differently to Assignment $4-2$ on Change Management? If so$,$ what would be different?

As a group $($as will be assigned by your instructor$),$ prepare a response on:

Three enduring lessons from looking at change failures that it would be useful for a Business Psychologist to know.

How can one become more resilient when facing change failure?

How might the learning be different between change successes and change failures?

By Thursday, post your response to Action Item $3$ on this discussion board.

By Sunday, post your group response to Action Item $4$ under the "Group Discussion for Learning from Change Failure" discussion board.