The Course Project is divided into three deliverables. This Course Project will assist the student in utilizing the concepts in this class, assignments, textbook, and instruction by your professor by doing a thorough analytical and in-depth review of organizational change. The first deliverable involves a comprehensive assessment of using images of change in a complete analysis. This assignment will give you the experience of working with change images, how to recommend and structure implementing a change in an organization, and how to apply human resource management competencies. The second deliverable will involve selecting a diagnostic model that can be used for the chosen organization. This part of the Course Project allows for demonstrating a strategic leadership perspective. The final deliverable will culminate in the art of communicating the change and how it aligns with the workplace environment and culture, along with how it will assist in exceeding the organization's goals. Be sure to reach each deliverable in its entirety.

Course Project deliverables are due by Sunday of Weeks 3, 5, and 7.

It is necessary to begin working on your project as quickly and as early as possible.

Guidelines

The following will be accomplished in these three deliverables for Weeks 3, 5, and 7:

• Each deliverable must have 3 to 5 pages not including title or references pages.
• Each deliverable must have at least four references (peer-reviewed).

Please note the following points related to the research component of this Course Project.

Utilize multiple references using online research, including the DeVry University on-site or online libraries. Also, consider using a public library or other area university or college library for print resources. Additional secondary research sources that would be appropriate for this project may also be used. The purpose of completing the research component for this Course Project is to include strong references to support your findings.

Week 3: Research a small to mid-size (up to 3,000 employees) publicly traded company along with their methods of handling a significant change in organization. Analyze and write about images of change in the selected organization in a Change Analysis Images of Change Paper (include at least four references). This deliverable due in Week 3.

Week 5: Determine the change in the company and the barriers and resistors by creating a Determining the Change Paper (include at least four references). This deliverable is due in Week 5.

Week 7: Analyze and create a customer or employee-facing communication based on the change in your researched company. This is the Communicating the Change Paper (including at least four references). This deliverable is due in Week 7.

Important Note!

DeVry librariansLinks to an external site. are a wealth of information and will help you find sources. Using the chat feature, you can talk to them about what you need to find, and they will teach you how to use the library!

Note: Do not use Wikipedia as a reference source. If you find helpful information from Wikipedia, triangulate your research, find other, more credible sources that provide the same (or better) information, and then utilize the information from that more credible source(s) in your paper and references page.

Deliverables

Analyzing the Change Paper (Due Week 3)

Determining the Change Paper (Due Week 5)

Communicating the Change Paper (Due Week 7)

Topic Selection

Select an organization that has experienced a substantial change in the past 5 years. Find the company and the change information online using EBSCO or another appropriate resource in the DeVry Library. Other ways to find information include utilizing Google, Yahoo Finance, or Reuters and looking up annual reports of companies that interest you. Often, reading the first sections of these reports (i.e., letters from CEOs) will give you ideas about changes they have gone through in the past year(s).

You will need to ensure the following:

1. Your organization is publicly traded so that information will be easy to research and find.
2. The changes happened in the recent past, so you will find sufficient online information about how they were handled, but are not so contemporary that the information about the change results still needs to be researched and published.

Here are some research examples. These are simply illustrative. You can research and find several companies and topics of change that could work for this Course Project, and you are encouraged to do so. Please ask your professor for assistance if you have questions or need more ideas

• Review an organization impacted by the pandemic. Furthermore, you can discuss how they handled these pressures (using a specific image of change management) and how a leader with a different image might have handled it differently.
• Organizations have needed help selecting a new chief executive officer (CEO) for their company. Review the last 10 years of CEO history and write a paper comparing the pressures (internal or external) and how they impacted the company's overall productivity.
• Review a company entering the airline industry, its entrance into (and possibly its completion of) bankruptcy, and how it handled the changes through management.
• Review a company that has recently been through mergers and acquisitions and how they handled the culture changes.
• Review a company that has had industry changes, how they have reacted to those changes, either successfully or unsuccessfully, and how their reactions perhaps resulted in their success or failure.