Write an essay of 2,500-3,000 words on one of the following topics below, ensuring coverage of the following points:<\/p>\n
1. A literature review of the relevant academic and practitioner literature including at least five (5) academic references and three (3) practitioner references making a minimum of eight (8) references in total. (After a brief, indicative literature review, the student may choose to spread the analysis of the relevant literature throughout the paper).<\/p>\n
2. A discussion of the student’s relevant professional strengths and limitations regarding change management. What might be the challenges for the student in applying the insights she\/he has gained from the literature and classes? How could she\/he meet these challenges? Refer to the literature as relevant.<\/p>\n
3. A discussion which relates the literature to the student’s professional life and\/or work context. The work\/life context could be a past, current or possible future situation. How will the student apply the insights and learnings from the literature and classes in a current or future endeavours as a change agent (whether as an explicit change agent, a manager, or more generally managing change at work)?
\nStudents with limited\/no professional work experience should choose a relevant life change or event to write about for the essay.<\/p>\n
\u2022 What do you consider are the most important things to get right in a successful change process?<\/p>\n
\u2022 The theories and dynamics of change management<\/p>\n
\u2022 Organisational development as a theory and practice: does it work?<\/p>\n
\u2022 The role of IT in organisation development: how is it used; what are the possible traps of using IT in OD? What are the reporting mechanisms for ensuring successful use of IT in OD?<\/p>\n
Is OD really just a fancy idea that in practice amounts to brainwashing in which employees are conscripted into the organisation’s preferred type of groupthink at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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