{"id":227373,"date":"2018-09-17T08:26:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T08:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/17\/mgt-3002-week-5-assignment-2-siemens-simple-structure\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:45:42","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:45:42","slug":"mgt-3002-week-5-assignment-2-siemens-simple-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/mgt-3002-week-5-assignment-2-siemens-simple-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"MGT 3002 Week 5 Assignment 2 Siemen&#8217;s Simple Structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do Kleinfeld&#8217;s efforts at Siemens tell you about the difficulties of restructuring organizations?\tWhy do you think L\u00f6scher&#8217;s restructuring decisions have generated less controversy than did Kleinfeld&#8217;s?\u00a0\tAssume a colleague read this case and concluded &#8220;This case proves restructuring efforts do not improve a company&#8217;s financial performance.&#8221; How would you respond to this statement?\u00a0\tDo you think a CEO who decides to restructure or downsize a company takes the well-being of employees into account? Should he or she do so? Why or why not?\u00a0\tWhat were the forces for change?\u00a0\tWhat were the restraining forces? How would you overcome them?\u00a0\tUse Kotter&#8217;s Eight-Step Plan for implementing change and explain how you would implement this change at Siemens. Be sure to include any organizational development tools that you might use (Davidson, 2008; Esterl &#038; Crawford, 2007; Ewing, 2007; Frey, 2008).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do Kleinfeld&#8217;s efforts at Siemens tell you about the difficulties of restructuring organizations? Why do you think L\u00f6scher&#8217;s restructuring decisions have generated less controversy than did Kleinfeld&#8217;s?\u00a0 Assume a colleague read this case and concluded &#8220;This case proves restructuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/mgt-3002-week-5-assignment-2-siemens-simple-structure\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}