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For the Module 1 SLP, we will continue our research into why good organizations resist change. To this extent, please visit the library, and find the following text:

Brown, B. B. (2002). Easy step by step guide to managing change. Havant: Crimson eBooks. Retrieved from EBSCO eBook Collection.

Read the chapter entitled “Organization barriers to change.” In this chapter, you will note several key barriers that cause organizations to resist needed change. Namely, these are:

1. Unclear objectives;
2. Inappropriate structures; and
3. Poor communications.

It is important to note the author’s emphasis that any one of these factors create organization-wide resistance to change because they have become part of the organization’s status quo.

After reading the chapter “Organization barriers to change,” respond to the following in a well-written, 3-4-page paper:

Part One: Description

Think of an experience you have had with an organization that failed to change when change was needed. Describe the change and explain why the organizational change you identify was needed. Describe what negative consequences (or outcomes) resulted from the organization’s failure to enact the needed change. What were the costs to the organization (e.g., poor employee morale, loss of customers, poor company image, financial losses, etc.)?

Part Two: Application and Analysis

Apply Brown’s (2002) perspective to demonstrate how unclear objectives, inappropriate structures, or poor communications contributed to the resistance to change in this organization. In other words, explain how Brown helps us understand why the barrier you have selected caused organization-wide resistance to needed change (keep in mind that we are focused on organization-wide – and not on individual – resistance to change).

Part Three: Solution and Recommendations

Finally, as a leader, what could you have done to avoid or minimize this resistance to change? Be specific, and be sure that your recommended actions target the barrier you identified in Part Two (e.g. unclear objectives, inappropriate structures, or poor communications). Be sure that you “connect the dots” by making a clear argument regarding how these specific recommendations would have helped the organization implement the needed change without resistance. If the resistance to change is ongoing, what suggestions do you have for resolving this problem going forward?

Write a 500 word essay based on one of the writing prompts below, citing the Hine & Faragher text at least 5 times. Your citation should come from a broad range of pages within Hine & Faragher, not merely one or two pages near each other.

Choose one person from this lesson’s readings. Discuss this person’s impact on the period and regions covered in this lesson. Think about the decisions and actions this person took. Examine the reasons and motives behind those decisions and actions, and the effect this person had on this period and the following periods.

As you write, think in terms of cause and effect, explaining why things happened as they did. Why did people do what they did?

Make an argument and back it up with evidence. You may use the primary sources to bolster your essay. Just be sure that at least 5 of your citations come from a broad range of pages from Hine & Faragher.

Citation: Use of evidence from Hine & Faragher is worth up to 40% of the score. Citation can be simple parenthetical citations. I simply need to be able to find what you are citing. For example, the following provide the textbook’s author and the page number. This is sufficient:

• (Hine & Faragher, 16)
• (Hine & Faragher, 25)
• Always quote any words that are taken verbatim (word for word) from Hine & Faragher or anyone else in order to prevent plagiarism. Citations go within the essay immediately after the sentence they support. For example, I might say:
  • The Civil War had a dramatic effect on the West in many ways, including an outward migration of African Americans from the South. (Hine & Faragher, 370-373) For example, Hine & Faragher describe “yet another mass exodus to the western promised land” in 1879 when free black Americans moved to western lands. (Hine & Faragher, 370-371)

  This is a formal essay. Formality means that you should write in the third person. You may use first person for the Primary Source Essay, but the Textbook Essay is more formal affair. Spell words out completely so that there are no contractions. For example, write “would not” rather than “wouldn’t.” Use proper grammar, and avoid informal terms such as “cool” or “crazy.” Remember:

  • 500 words
  • Cite the Hine & Faragher text at least 5 times.
  • Cite from a broad range of pages in Hine & Faragher, not from only a few of pages right next to each other.
  • Connect events, movements, innovations, etc. by showing cause and effect, explaining why people did what they did.

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Choose a business issue such as conflict, organizational structure,
performance evaluation etc. from your own professional work experience
or peer-reviewed journal articles. Apply 2 concepts from chapters 15–19
in the Robbins & Judge textbook (such as conflict intensity
continuum, matrix structure, inter-group development, etc.) in your
discussion of that problem. Keep in mind that chapters 15–19 deal with
conflict, organizational structure and culture, human resource policies,
and organizational change, so find a scenario that is most applicable
in those regards. Discuss the scenario and apply 2 core concepts from
chapters 15–19.

(Must have this textbook)

Robbins, S. P.,
& Judge, T. A. (2009). Organizational
behavior (Custom ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall. ISBN:
9780555012277.

You are a member of a major metropolitan police department and assigned in a covert narcotics operations unit. Often, while working undercover, you are required to simulate the use of drugs without actually taking them. You have a partner who has always treated you well and taken care of you. On at least one occasion, he pulled you out of the line of fire of a drug dealer just before the offender shot at you. The two of you have been highly successful over the past 18 months. During the last three months, he has been seeing a woman that had acted as an informant on one case. You believe that she has gotten him to use cocaine with her. His performance is falling off, and you are worried that he might be abusing cocaine and compromising his position in the police department.

Respond to the following in discussion:

• Why is it important to you that your partner is possibly using drugs?
• Explain at least 2 courses of action you could take about this situation and why you would consider taking them.
• What are the dangers to the unit, your other fellow unit members, and yourself if your partner is actually using cocaine?

APA style, 3 paragraphs and 2 to 3 references for this assignment.