UOP MGT426 All Weeks Discussions Latest

MGT426 Managing Change in the Workplace

Week 1 Discussion

Change Agent

What is a change agent? How does a change agent affect the change process?

Why Change

Why is change necessary? What about change is disruptive? How can meeting the challenge of change become organizational opportunities?

A Learning Organization

What are some characteristics of a learning organization? What are some benefits of becoming a learning organization? What is the relationship between organizational change and a learning organization?

Management Perspective

Describe the major components of the classical and modern management perspectives. How is modern management different than past management perspectives?

Influences

What are some of the external and internal forces that influence change in an organization?

Management Styles

Summarize how historical forces influence the practice of management. Are past management styles conducive to implementing change?

Global Economy

How does the global economy affect change within today’s organization? What challenges do leaders face today that were not present in the past?

 

MGT426 Managing Change in the Workplace

Week 2 Discussion

Your Organization

What type of structure does your workplace have? Is it conducive to change?

Downsizing Intervention

What are the steps to the downsizing intervention?

Organizational Culture

How does organizational culture affect the change process?

Your Workforce

What type of job structure does your workplace use? How would you enrich your current job position?

Core Dimensions

What are the five core dimensions of a job? How do these dimensions affect job outcome?

Job Enrichment

What are the basic steps for job enrichment? What are some barriers to job enrichment?

Work Design

What are the different approaches to designing work? Which approach is used in your workplace?

A Learning Organization

Define a learning organization and explain how this type of culture influences the change process?

Dynamic Strategy

What is the Dynamic Strategy process? Hoe does this process differ from traditional OD intervention?

 

MGT426 Managing Change in the Workplace

Week 3 Discussion

Readiness for Change

How do you create readiness for change?

Effective Change Management

What activities contribute to effective change management?

Contingency Planning

What is contingency planning and how does it benefit the change process?

Importance of Entrepreneurship

Describe the importance of entrepreneurship to the global and U.S. economies.

 

MGT426 Managing Change in the Workplace

Week 4 Discussion

Women in the Workplace

Summarize the factors that affect women’s opportunities, including the glass ceiling, the opt-out trend, and the female advantage.

Global Influence

Describe the pervasive demographic changes occurring in the domestic and global marketplace and how corporations are responding.

Workplace Issues

Identify the complex attitudes, opinions, and issues that people bring to the workplace, including prejudice, discrimination, stereotypes, and ethnocentrism.

Coaching

What are the goals of coaching? What is the basic four step process of effective coaching?

Career Planning and Career Development

What is the difference between career planning and career development?

Innovation in the Workplace

What is innovation? What type of innovation can affect the workplace? How does innovation influence change within an organization?

Leadership

What is management and leadership development intervention? What are the four steps of the intervention process?

Managing Diversity

Explain the goals and framework for managing diversity.

 

MGT426 Managing Change in the Workplace

Week 5 Discussion

Employee Productivity

How does employee involvement affect productivity?

Employee Involvement

What is employee work involvement? What are the key elements that promote worker involvement?

TQM

Explain how Total Quality Management (TQM) affects employee involvement?

Employee Empowerment

What is employee empowerment and how does it affect the change process?

Goals

How do you set performance goals? What are the characteristic of goal setting?

Goal Setting

What are the application stages of goal setting?

Performance Model

What is a performance management model?