Change Initiative Assessment: Outline Assignment

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Overview

Assessing the success or failure of a major change initiative is a necessary skill for any budding change agent or change manager. For this assignment you will research a major transformational effort of a target organization you select. The target organization may be a private, government, or non-profit organization with which you are familiar. Remember that you will need to select an organization for which you are able to collect considerable information in order to create a comprehensive case.

Instructions

Types of change might include mergers, acquisitions, downsizing, new strategic direction, globalization, public image failures (BP, Toyota, Facebook, Goldman Sachs), macro-economic change, political/legal shifts, or some other type of organizational change.

The following information must be included: 

1) A title page;
2) The name and a description of the target organization (industry, location, income/budget, number of employees, etc.);
3) A description of the change process the group will explore(150–250 words); and
4) An initial list of at least 5 peer-reviewed sources you expect to use on a separate reference page in current APA format. (You may use more; this is just an initial list.)