Topic Selection Pick out your two companies and their change. In 1 double spaced page, please submit your company selections, with a brief write-up on the changes you will be comparing in the two companies. Pick two companies which have undergone some type of fairly substantial change in the recent past. Find the company and the change information online, using EBSCO, or using a company's case described somewhere in our textbook. (See page 388 of the textbook index for page numbers and names of each of the cases described in the textbook.) Other ways to find information: utilize Google or Yahoo Finance, or Reuters, and look up Annual Reports of companies which interest you. Often reading the first sections of these reports (i.e. letters from CEO's) will give you ideas about changes they have gone through in the past year(s). Be sure that: a. Your companies are publicly traded so that their information will be easy to research and find b. Your change in the two companies are comparable (i.e. don't compare a new CEO to a change in HRIS - DO compare two changes in CIO) and c. The changes happened in the recent past so that you will find plenty of online information about how they were handled, but not so recent that the information about the change \"results\" is still up in the air. Your topic will be graded/approved and returned to you so that you know your topic will work for the course. You must get approval to move forward with your project. This section will be worth 25 points and must have at least two references. How this will be graded: Item Total points Topic includes two companies which have undergone a somewhat similar type of change over the past 10 years (or longer if you have plenty of information about it) 5 Write up sufficiently tells the instructor the names of the companies, the information you have found about the changes, and why you find this project topic interesting 15 Item Total points Includes at least two references to articles or items about the companies and the change 5 Total Points 25 Part 2: The Change Analysis - Images of Change The \"Images\" section focuses on the six different images of managing change and how each \"approach\" to change effects all that follows in its implementation and continued support. Download the \"Week 2 Project Images Grid\" from doc-sharing. Pick three of the \"images of change\" explained in the Week 2 lecture from the grid, and analyze how those particular \"images\" would affect the ensuing diagnosis and implementation in your two selected companies on their change plans. Here's what to do: 1. Working with the information that you provided in your topic proposal, and any feedback you have received from your Professor, flesh out the facts and information from your original proposal. 2. Review the changes in each company and describe them thoroughly in a word document. Explain how the change impacted the companies, and who it impacted. Compare some of the similarities and differences between the change in the two companies. 3. Look at your grid and pick three images of change from your grid. Fill out the empty blocks on the grid for those three images using outlines, bullet points, and rough ideas for both company's change. 4. Now, in a Word document, analyze, compare and contrast the three images and explain how the behaviors of those images would be different or the same during your companies' changes, and how those differences could (or did) impact the success (or failure) of the change, comparing and contrasting the results at both companies. 5. Explain which image (or combination of images) you feel would have best facilitated the described change and why. 6. Based on the information you actually read about the results of this change, state which image you think the leader of the change actually resembled the most. You may speculate here on which image you feel best represents the \"change agent\" at either or both of the companies. This will depend on how much information you found about the internal workings of the company during the change. This paper should focus on evidence that demonstrates how the management of the organization integrated one or more of the six images of managing change (Chapters 2 and 3) how effective the change was and what management could have done differently to increase the probability of successfully implementing the strategic change initiative. Again, this is a compare and contrast paper - so include information about both companies in your report. Grading rubric for paper #2 - Change Images Item Total points Properly filled out and submitted change grid showing your initial analysis and notes. 10 Two companies selected, \"briefed\Part 1: Topic Selection Pick out your two companies and their change. In 1 double spaced page, please submit your company selections, with a brief write-up on the changes you will be comparing in the two companies. Pick two companies which have undergone some type of fairly substantial change in the recent past. Find the company and the change information online, using EBSCO, or using a company's case described somewhere in our textbook. (See page 388 of the textbook index for page numbers and names of each of the cases described in the textbook.) Other ways to find information: utilize Google or Yahoo Finance, or Reuters, and look up Annual Reports of companies which interest you. Often reading the first sections of these reports (i.e. letters from CEO's) will give you ideas about changes they have gone through in the past year(s). Be sure that: a. Your companies are publicly traded so that their information will be easy to research and find b. Your change in the two companies are comparable (i.e. don't compare a new CEO to a change in HRIS - DO compare two changes in CIO) and c. The changes happened in the recent past so that you will find plenty of online information about how they were handled, but not so recent that the information about the change \"results\" is still up in the air. Your topic will be graded/approved and returned to you so that you know your topic will work for the course. You must get approval to move forward with your project. This section will be worth 25 points and must have at least two references. How this will be graded: Item Total points Topic includes two companies which have undergone a somewhat similar type of change over the past 10 years (or longer if you have plenty of information about it) 5 Write up sufficiently tells the instructor the names of the companies, the information you have found about the changes, and why you find this project topic interesting 15 Item Total points Includes at least two references to articles or items about the companies and the change 5 Total Points 25 Part 2: The Change Analysis - Images of Change The \"Images\" section focuses on the six different images of managing change and how each \"approach\" to change effects all that follows in its implementation and continued support. Download the \"Week 2 Project Images Grid\" from doc-sharing. Pick three of the \"images of change\" explained in the Week 2 lecture from the grid, and analyze how those particular \"images\" would affect the ensuing diagnosis and implementation in your two selected companies on their change plans. Here's what to do: 1. Working with the information that you provided in your topic proposal, and any feedback you have received from your Professor, flesh out the facts and information from your original proposal. 2. Review the changes in each company and describe them thoroughly in a word document. Explain how the change impacted the companies, and who it impacted. Compare some of the similarities and differences between the change in the two companies. 3. Look at your grid and pick three images of change from your grid. Fill out the empty blocks on the grid for those three images using outlines, bullet points, and rough ideas for both company's change. 4. Now, in a Word document, analyze, compare and contrast the three images and explain how the behaviors of those images would be different or the same during your companies' changes, and how those differences could (or did) impact the success (or failure) of the change, comparing and contrasting the results at both companies. 5. Explain which image (or combination of images) you feel would have best facilitated the described change and why. 6. Based on the information you actually read about the results of this change, state which image you think the leader of the change actually resembled the most. You may speculate here on which image you feel best represents the \"change agent\" at either or both of the companies. This will depend on how much information you found about the internal workings of the company during the change. This paper should focus on evidence that demonstrates how the management of the organization integrated one or more of the six images of managing change (Chapters 2 and 3) how effective the change was and what management could have done differently to increase the probability of successfully implementing the strategic change initiative. Again, this is a compare and contrast paper - so include information about both companies in your report. Grading rubric for paper #2 - Change Images Item Total points Properly filled out and submitted change grid showing your initial analysis and notes. 10 Two companies selected, \"briefed\Running head: COURSE PROJECT 1 HRM 587 MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE COURSE PRJOECT WEEK- 1 Poonam Rana 2 COURSE TOPIC Nokia and Microsoft VS Motorola and Google Few years ago, Nokia and Motorola had similar change. The purpose behind picking up these two organizations is that both mobile companies has taken by two biggest technology companies Google and Microsoft. Google has brought Motorola and approximately at same period Microsoft has brought Nokia. Microsoft rename Nokia's product for instance Nokia Lumia name has changed by Microsoft Lumia. That was the biggest changed with the Nokia. However, Google purchase Motorola then after few days it was sold to Lenovo. The main comparison is the both company has same management changes at same time. Google and Microsoft brought not only mobile operating system but its devices divisions. Nokia and Motorola had big business in china and India. Both technical companies has invested with mobile companies that make me do research of my course topic. Reference - Lerato raloobo, 2014 Goodbye Nokia, Welcome Microsoft Mobile retrieved from http://newstonight.co.za/content/goodbye-nokia-welcome-microsoft-mobile - Ali Farahani Rad, 2014 Why did Google sell Motorola and Microsoft buy Nokia? retrieved https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140612222340-204650083-why-did-googlesell-motorola-and-microsoft-buy-nokia-part-one