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Reading – HRB’s On Change Management:
Cracking the Code of Change pp. 137-154
Harvard Reflection Papers: Each week (except Week 8) students are to submit a two-three page reflection paper on the Harvard reading that was assigned for that week. Each reflection paper will require outside research on the author(s) as it relates to educational background and experience and how their background and experience is relevant to their work in the Harvard reading.
Please note that title and reference pages do not count toward the two-three page requirements. The readings will all come from HBR’s Must Reads: On Change Management.
Each paper must address EACH of the following questions:
- After conducting outside research, what have you learned about the author(s) and how is/are the author(s) education and experience relevant to what the author(s) wrote?
- What did you learn about change management?
- How did ethics/values/faith play a role?
- How can you apply what you learned to change initiatives?
Note: Each paper must be two-three pages in length with Times New Roman font, 12-point in type size. Title and reference pages do not count toward the two-three page requirement.
Explanation & Answer
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Running head: CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Change Management
Student’s Name
Institutional Affiliation
Harvard Reflection
Lessons learned from the Author
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CHANGE MANAGEMENT
I learned that leaders are responsible for initiating a code of change. The authors
highlight the roles of leaders as being vital in change management. Their experience and
education are relevant to their writing by the analysis of the expertise that fails leaders in
implementing change management. They both discuss how leaders lose focus from getting
outside advice, which mesmerizes them. According to Beer & Nohria (2000), the
recommendation from on-line and in-print available misleads the leaders by creating muddles,
which affects their human and economic effort. The authors thus emphasize the importance of
leaders understanding the process and nature of corporate change and the need to improve on
their ways of initiating change effectively to reduce human carnage.
Change Management
Change management, according to the article, requires drastic layoffs, restructuring, and
even downsizing of the organization. Organizations can undertake projects that aim at addressing
crucial matters as well as...
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