Chapter 15: Review Essay

Assignment Instructions:

In order to ensure that you are truly grasping the assigned readings, each week students are required to submit (approximately) a 150-word essay on:

Each of two chapter Review Essay questions.

Since this is an introductory course in business & management, I do not expect students to submit elaborate essay responses. However, I do expect you to follow all of the (critical thinking and writing rubric) guidelines provided and to make an honest attempt at responding to a question to the best of your ability. In general, responses are expected to be (approximately) 10 to 12 sentences in length. Please realize that I can clearly tell when students just throw an answer together at the last minute so please take proper care in preparing your answer.

Essay Question assignments will be graded manually using the attached rubrics, within 7 days of due date. Writing skills will be evaluated using the attached Writing rubric, and Critical Thinking skills will be evaluated using the attached Critical Thinking rubric. The professor may choose to send back the assignments with notations and comments using the assignment submission box. Thus, it is students' responsibility to download the assignment submission after they have been graded in order to review any comments and recommendations the professor may have given.

CHAPTER 15 REVIEW ESSAY QUESTIONS 1. As you think about your own personal history, how difficult has it been for you to make behavioral changes? If you were being interviewed for a job and were asked to describe an incident that demonstrates your ability to change, what you say? 2. Think about a recent organizational change at school, at work, or someplace else that you were part of. Would you rate it a success for failure? In either case, based on the concepts in this chapter, what do you see as the strengths and weaknesses of the change effort?

3. If you were to look back on change efforts you lead or helped manage, what do you think you did well? In retrospect, what would you do differently and why?

4. As you think about potential change efforts that you may have to manage in the future, what aspects of change management do you think you need to strengthen and why? What aspects do you believe will be strengths that you can leverage?

5. Think of the last organizational change that affected you. Maybe your university, for example, recently changed some policy on major curriculum requirements or something similar. Were you a supporter of or resister to the change? What mistakes did the organization make? What could it have done differently to facilitate the change?

6. The exact outcomes of change programs are often not evaluated, why do you think this is the case?