Day: August 18, 2019

Tasks:

 

Locate a suitable subject organization for your course project. The organization can be your current organization or one that you are familiar with. Contact your instructor early in the week if you need assistance selecting an organization. For your paper, provide a summary of the organization. Include the following details in your summary:

 

• What is the organization?
• What does it do?
• Who does it do it to/for?

 

In organizational diagnosis, one of the first steps is an initial assessment of potential areas of concern. If you were contracting with an organization as a consultant, the CEO would likely share in the early conversations why you are being hired. As part of the process, you would make observations, look at some organizational documents, and even have some informal conversations with organizational members to get a sense of where issues might be located so that you can determine how you will gather necessary data for diagnosing problems and recommending solutions.

 

In your paper, provide an initial assessment of some organizational problems that are evident in your case study organization. In an actual consulting scenario, you would do your assessment on the basis of your full range of organizational and leadership theory knowledge; however, for this course project, focus on individual OB themes.

 

• What are the symptoms of the problems?
• What is the evidence that problems actually exist?
• What are the relevant individual OB themes that might explain the problems (and not just the symptoms)?

 

Remember, individual OB themes revolve around two questions:

 

• Why do people say what they say and do what they do?
• How do we enhance individual performance to achieve organizational goals?

 

On the basis of your initial assessment, one of the first things you will need to do is determine the additional information required for fully assessing the situation. In other words, what resources do you need to better understand the themes and assess the organizational difficulty? For your paper, provide an annotated reference list of at least five peer-reviewed sources that are relevant to your case study. Most of the references should relate to individual OB themes. However, at least one resource must relate to methodology (e.g., how to do organizational diagnosis). Remember, for APA, every reference must have at least one corresponding in-text citation. For this paper, the annotated reference list is your reference list, and entries need to be part of your research and support in the paper.

 

An annotated reference list means that each reference is followed by a brief (usually about 150 words) descriptive and evaluative paragraph. The purpose of the annotation is to inform the reader of the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources cited. Annotations are descriptive and critical; they expose the author’s point of view and authority.

 

Submission Details:

 

• Complete your analysis in a 5- to 6-page Microsoft Word document, using APA style.

 

*** OB- Stands for Organizational Behavior  

How well do you know your future role in advance practice?

 

 

 

The elevator door opens; you step on and find yourself face to face with a known skeptical colleague, who inquires “what are you doing in your profession”? It’s your chance to share, define and possible persuade this person about your chosen role of nursing in advance practice. You have 10 floors, roughly 90 seconds to make an impression. Draft an “Elevator Speech” (approximately 300 words) reflecting the conversation about your future role in your program of study.  In three detailed paragraphs, address why you have chosen this role (your passion) and define steps to ascertain the role including certification criteria and how the role will impact patient outcomes (how you will make a difference).

 

Support your work with evidence based research. For example, in conversation you tell the person A recent study by Taylor in 2016 showed that NPs were efficient as MDs at treating primary care problems.

Review the Harvard Business School reprint, Leading Teams. Consider the criteria for successful teams and the factors needed to ensure teams are structured for success.

 

Create a plan (800-900 words) describing the steps necessary to create more successful teams at various levels within your organization. Include the following in the plan:

 

Define the characteristics and structure of successful teams within your organization. How are independent teams vital to the success of your organization?

 

1. What are important factors to consider when leading teams within the various levels of the organization?
2. What factors are important to consider when leading teams at the executive level?
3. What aspects are essential in identifying appropriate members for teams and ensuring the teams are successfully launched?
4. What factors are important to ongoing team dynamics? Describe guidelines to evaluate the function and productivity of teams.
5. Compassion is a significant attribute of many religions and philosophies, including a Christian worldview, as well as being important for both authentic and servant leadership. As a leader, how would you empower your teams through compassion to honor diversity and support equality for all members as they work toward a common goal?

Assignment Content

 

1. Urban and rural health care organizations throughout the industry are working together to coordinate care for Medicare patients. Accountable Care Organization (ACO) programs were established by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to help facilitate this cooperation.

   Select a type of health care organization that would accept Medicare patients (e.g., family practice, hospital, urgent care, or nursing home).

   Write a 700- to 1,050-word executive summary that discusses the purpose of joining an ACO and the funding available through one. Ensure your summary does the following:

   • Describe the organization you selected and the general services that would be offered to Medicare patients.
   • Describe the types of ACOs recognized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
   • Evaluate industry dynamics that would influence your organization’s decision to participate in an ACO.
   • Identify the steps needed to participate in an ACO.
   • Justify participation in an ACO for your organization.
   • Cite 3 reputable references to support your assignment (e.g., trade or industry publications, government or agency websites, scholarly works, or other sources of similar quality).

     Format your assignment according to APA guidelines.

“That’s not my job!” “My boss won’t let me.” “Let me go ask my supervisor.” “That’s outside my authority.” We’ve all heard reasons why we are unable to complete a task. Chances are, they are very real reasons that are impeding our progress toward change. To make our change efforts effective, we must be sure we are supporting and empowering the individuals in our group to actually do what we are asking them to do.

 

 

 

Specific questions or items to address:

 

Read Step 5 “Empower Action” from Kotter and Cohen’s The Heart of Change. First, review the feedback from your instructor on Part 5. Use any new information you gained from the discussion and feedback from your instructor to revise and improve Part 5 of your project. Next, compile Part 6 of your project, explaining what actions you and your team will take to empower people to take action. How will you remove boss barriers, system barriers, information barriers, and barriers of the mind? How will you ‘retool’ the boss? You may find the area under “Empower Action” helpful in reviewing the key points of what to do and not do when empowering action. Be sure your paper touches on the key elements of each as they pertain to your organization.

 

Be sure to include at least three scholarly references to support your assertions written in your own words. Do not copy word for word from the course text or any other sources. Your submission this week is Part 6 of the final project.

 

The requirements below must be met for your paper to be accepted and graded:

 

 

 

 You should have more than one citation in a paragraph 

 

• Write between 1,000 – 1,250 words (approximately 4 – 6 pages) using Microsoft Word in APA style.
• Use font size 12 and 1” margins.
• Include cover page and reference page.
• At least 80% of your paper must be original content/writing.
• No more than 20% of your content/information may come from references.
• Use an appropriate number of references to support your position, and defend your arguments. The following are examples of primary and secondary sources that may be used, and non-credible and opinion based sources that may not be used.
  1. Primary sources such as, government websites (United States Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Census Bureau, The World Bank, etc.), peer reviewed and scholarly journals in EBSCOhost and Google Scholar.
  2. Secondary and credible sources such as, CNN Money, The Wall Street Journal, trade journals, and publications in EBSCOhost.
  3. Non-credible and opinion based sources such as, Wikis, Yahoo Answers, eHow, blogs, etc. should not be used.
• Cite all reference material (data, dates, graphs, quotes, paraphrased words, values, etc.) in the paper and list on a reference page in APA style.

“Cracking the Code of Change”

 

Change is not a one-size-fits-all concept. There are many different approaches to change and each one has its own strengths and weaknesses. Some change strategies work well in some situations but not well in others. The key is finding the right method for your situation or perhaps even a mix of more than one, taking the best of each approach and making it fit your needs.

 

 

 

Initial Post Instructions

 

Search for a company whose leader used Theory E to drive the changes and another company whose leader used Theory O to drive the changes. Compare and contrast the two companies, including profitability. Which of the two theories would you use to drive the change? Why? Is effective communication more important in one theory than the other? Why or why not? Use and cite a minimum of three scholarly references beyond the texts used in the course to defend your reasoning.

 

 

 

Follow Up Posts

 

After your initial post, read over the items posted by your peers and your instructor. Select at least two different posts, and address the following items in your responses:

 

i. What insights did your peers share on Theory E and Theory O that will help you better understand and implement these theories?

 

ii. Do you agree with your peer’s assessments of Theory E and Theory O? Why or why not?

 

  

 

Sylvester Lloyd 

 

  

 

The biggest challenged organizations face today is managing of corporate change, and change is a must if any business expects to remain competitive. But businesses have a tendency resisting change which leads to businesses failing because of changes. In order to perform this challenging task of bringing the desired change, the two most famous approaches are Theory E and Theory O. But there is nothing wrong trying both theories.

 

Theory E is the hard line approach bringing about change, and using this method toward restructuring downsizing, layoffs, and economics incentives and in this structure the shareholders the more successful as well.

 

Companies that use Theory E for change are Amazon to maximize the economic values and Wal-Mart used this theory for restructuring to compete with Amazon.

 

Theory O is not as strong when bringing about changes because it emphasis on developing culture and human capability to focus on organization learning, behavior, commitment, input, and employee conduct. Companies that used Theory O to drive change are Richard Branson Virgin and Hewitt Packard.

 

Comparing Amazon and Hewitt Packard brings me determine Amazon applies the approach based on economics incentives and profits and Hewitt Packard was based on organizational capabilities.

 

Theory E requires directional approach whereas, theory applies consultation and full participation, Theory E communication is applied top-down and theory O is bottom up communication is applied.

 

Out of the two theories in my opinion, Theory O seems to be the best chose because communication and the power it carries and its importance.

 

https://twitter.com/amazon?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor

 

Nohria Nitin &Beer Michael. Cracking the code of change. 2000. / Change management, Harvard business Review, May-June 2000 Issue

 

Biech Elaine, Thriving  Through Change: A Leaders Practical Guide to change Mastery. 2007. ASTED, pg. 23

 

 

 

Chad Watkins 

 

  

 

There are two primary theories of change that are utilized by businesses.  The theories revolve either around principles of increasing economic value, or to improve organizational capability.  Theory E changes emphasize the economic value that is measure purely by shareholder return (Beer, 2000).  Theory O is an approach that focuses on investing into the organization to develop corporate culture and capability of employees thru teamwork and communication.  Both strategies have benefits, but a successful approach typically utilizes a mixture of both approaches.  An appropriate combination of both approaches are likely to achieve sustainability in the long run.

 

An example of an organization that has utilized the strategies of Theory E changes would be McDonalds.  Over the past several decades McDonalds has been a leader in maximizing the inputs of time, money, and resources to optimize outputs (Hughes, 2017).  They have incorporated automation in areas in which opportunities to improve performance outcomes were identified.  This has maximized operational efficiencies which has resulted in a significantly increased economic valuation.

 

Companies such as Toyota have utilize Theory O changes to strengthen the organization.  For example, Toyota focuses on maintaining a high level of motivation.  Toyota utilizes open forums and allow employees to have input on process decisions.  Toyota has a program that allows frontline employees to come up with and actually test new tools and ides on the assembly line (McGregor, 2015).  Even though Toyota focuses energy into Theory O changes, they also utilize the principles of Theory E by developing the Toyota Production System.  This is a manufacturing strategy that takes a logistical approach to reduce waste, improve productivity, and enhance the lean aspects of production (Spear, 2004).  This system has been utilized in the manufacturing arena globally.

 

I feel that an approach like Toyota’s is most appropriate because it is a combination approach.  It is important to focus on economic value for organizational growth, yet it should not be the primary or only focus.  It is equally important to focus on improvements in the culture or moral of a department.  A heightened morale of a department will create longevity which will also translate to increased economic value.

 

 

 

References:

 

Beer, M., Nohria, N., Cracking the Code of Change. Harvard Business Review. May/June, 2000.

 

Hughes, B., How Business Process Management Will Change Your Small Business. The Huffington Post. December 6, 2017.

 

McGregor, L., Doshi, N., How Company Culture Shapes Employee Motivation. Harvard Business Review. November, 25, 2015.

 

Spear, S., Learning to Lead at Toyota. The Harvard Business Review. May, 2004.

Assessments are used for many different purposes in the K‐12 educational setting. For example, assessments are used during classroom instruction to measure students’ learning related to the academic content, and different assessments are used to measure students’ overall cognitive, physical, or social‐emotional abilities. Regardless of the assessment type, there are specific terms that are often used related to assessments. It is often the responsibility of the special education teacher to explain assessment terminology to families.

 

Understanding the terminology used in the formal assessment of students who have or may have a disability is a vital first step for collaboration with families. Having such knowledge will assist families in understanding the uses and limitations of specified assessments. Teachers are then able to collaborate and consult with families in a productive manner to inform student‐based decision making.

 

Student assessment results from formal, standardized assessment tools are often statistically based and can be very difficult for families to understand.

 

Write a 500‐750 word article to post on the parent page of the school’s website explaining assessment methods and the basics of statistics used in formal adaptive behavior assessments. The article should be creative and accurately explain how to read and understand assessment results by including the following:

 

• Purpose, definition, and two examples of adaptive behavior assessments
• Definition of six specialized assessment terms both of a content and statistical nature including an explanatory example of each used in formal adaptive behavior assessments
• Explanation of at least two limitations of standardized assessments, such as bias in questionnaires, subjectivity, utility, psychometric support, etc.
• Description of the consultative role of the special educator in helping parents/guardians understand the process of assessments and related terminology

 

Use easy‐to‐understand language and examples of assessment results with graphs, diagrams, and pictures as needed.

 

Support your findings with 2‐3 scholarly resources.

 

Prepare this assignment according to the guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.