Day: January 7, 2021

Select one of the following approaches to understanding or implementing organizational change:
    Dunphy and Staces Four Levels of Change
    Balogun and Haileys Change Model
    Proactive vs. Reactive Changes
    Strategic Change versus Tactical Change
    Tichys 3 Types of Change
    Balanced Scorecard
    Contingency Alignment Framework
    The Stakeholder Approach
Summarize this approach and provide an example of how this information could be useful to an organization.
Your initial post should be at least 200 words in length. Support your claims with examples from required material(s) and/or other scholarly resources, and properly cite any references.

This assignment focuses on how the management practices of planning, leading, organizing, staffing, and controlling are implemented in your workplace. find three Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) that provide information on Amazon.coms business structure.

Here is the scenario and situation:

Assume you are an employee working in the Amazon warehouse, and you pack orders and categorize them into small, medium, and large batches. You are considered a packer. You have experience packing all sizes and have been with the organization for two years. You are considered one of their best employees, you have a solid reputation for being a hard worker, and all of your orders are packed correctly. You have also been busy; you recently completed Amazons management training program, and you have completed your BABA degree at the Forbes School of Business and Technology at Ashford University.

Congratulations: You have just been promoted to manager. You will be relocated to a new plant that is two hours away that employs 100 employees. You will oversee a team of 10 supervisors and 90 packers and will now oversee the entire warehouse operation. How will you work to use and apply the five functions of management?

Now lets apply the five functions. In your paper, include the following sections:

Planning: Examine the specific areas you will choose to manage that fall under the planning function.
For example, what might be some of the things you will plan to do and implement to build an effective team and culture? People are the most important resource in any business, what do you plan to do to build a positive team culture? What processes and systems do you plan to use?
Organizing: Assess if the present structure that Amazon has set up is working.
Do you need to make or suggest any changes to make it more efficient and effective? What structure will you use and implement? Explain how you will use departmentalization in your organizational structure.
Staffing: Analyze your staffing needs.
How do you intend to staff your organization and replace members that leave or are promoted? How does the HR process apply? What things (if any) will you suggest?
Leading: Justify the leadership theory and style you will follow to ensure efficiency.
Will you use transformational or transactional leadership? Why or why not?
Controls: Identify what controls and measures you will implement.
How will you apply the four steps of control (these are in Chapter 7; i.e., establishing standards, measuring performance, comparing performance, and making decisions)?
Be sure to integrate vocabulary learned throughout this course and citations from the text to support your analysis. The paper should be five to six double-spaced pages in length, must include at least three scholarly sources, in addition to the textbook, and be formatted according to APA style guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center.

The Team Management Activity and Reflection paper

Must be five to six double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style.

Must use at least three scholarly, peer reviewed, and/or credible sources in addition to the course text.
The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types.

Must document all sources in APA style.

Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style.

Meets word count requirement of 300 words, Relates to weekly reading assignment and course material, and uses Correct APA format (citations and references are in APA format)

Discussion Question #1.  What, in your view, is the difference between the terms management and leadership?

Discussion Question #2.  What, in your view, is meant by the term change management?

Summarize this week’s assigned reading in a 3-5 page paper.  See uploaded information for further guidance.  Also, include additional references and cite within the paper.

Be sure to include the following and use subheaders:

Title Page

Abstract Page

Introduction

Managing Change

Change Communication Strategies

Resistance to Change

Organizational Development and Sense-Making Approaches

Sustaining Change versus Initiative Decay
Personal Reflection                       

What you found most applicable

What you found not applicable

Summary

References