Student Name: _____________________________ Date: ________________________

Generic description of your work setting _____________________________________________

(i.e., long term care, hospital, school, etc.)

Part A) Use this Organizational Attributes Worksheet to evaluate your work setting. For this assignment you see a need to institute change to improve cultural diversity in your organizational environment. Complete this worksheet based on that objective. Do not provide identifying information, such as names, list only roles/titles/ initials. For the organization's name, replace it with intials as well.

This worksheet will help you think about your organization's culture and history, and help you complete an Organizational Attributes Assessmentthat will be a guide for developing your change management strategies and actions. Cape Regional Medical Center Cape may court house nj

1. Organization Change Culture

Would you consider your organization change resistant or change-ready? Why?

2. Employee Value Structure

Does the current employee value system allow change to be easily mandated from above, or is the value system resistant to top-down changes? Why?

Identify the institutions, policies or practices that reinforce this value structure.

3. Change Capacity

Describe the current changes that are already underway. Is the organization oversaturated with change or are only a few changes taking place?

List any key initiatives that overlap or interact with your change.

4. Leadership Style and Power Distribution

Does power and authority in your organization:

	Reside with a few key leaders (centralized)
	Spread among many managers (distributed; creates more difficult change management challenges)

Identify the key "power positions" in the organization (i.e. where does the true power reside).

5. Past Changes

Past changes were typically:

	Successful
	Failures

Are employees skeptical of change, perceiving initiatives as just the next "flavor of the month"? Why?

What key lessons did you learn from past changes?

What caused past changes to succeed or fail?

6. Middle Manager Predisposition

List any immediate and anticipated challenges presented by middle managers and supervisors.

Identify potential advocates, neutralizers, or renegades.

Part B) Environmental Assessment. Some of this information can be found on the company's website, other information can be searched using Google, or viewing company promotional information that is public document. Use this section of the worksheet to address:

1. Your Organization's History and Structure

Research the background. Define the administrative structure. (If you can find an algorithm of the corporate hierarchy structure, you can simply attach that.) Provide citations for your sources.

Organization's History:

Organization's Hierarchy Structure:

1. External Influences and Competition.

External influencesonbusinessinclude economic, financial, social, legal, political, institutional, technological, competitive situation and changes in the market.Who are your competitors? What is your company's niche? What is your competitor's niche (Your competitor is not always in the same state. Look out 50+ miles when finding your organization's competitor? Provide citations for your sources.

1. Sustainability and future strategies

This pertains to staying abreast of trends that affect the industry, planning for legislative changes (like healthcare coverage), capital investments (like real estate for growth), pro-active strategies to address change. How do you measure patient satisfaction? How does the corporation respond to outcomes? How are initiatives and goals communicated to employees? Provide citations for your sources.