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Can you use Southwest airlines for this paper.
The purpose of this assignment is to display lessons learned about designing a change management plan and the implications for performance management promoting a high performance work environment.
In this assignment, you will apply lessons learned about the strategic management process in relation to performance and change management. Please refer to the resources below to assist with the assignment.
Assignment Steps
Resources: Human Resource Management, Supplemental Resources.
Choose your organization or one you know well to use for this assignment. You may use the same organization you used Week 1.
Interview a HR leader or another leader in a management position in your chosen organization about a recent change in the organization.
Consider the following for your plan:
- The purpose for the change;
- The people involved in the change;
- The change implementation methods;
- The budget concerns, timeline, and measurement of success/metrics;
- Recommend a follow-up plan to review impact of the change on the human resources function, additional personnel required, ways to recruit personnel, organizational alignment, and cost changes.
- Include a schematic diagram of your plan.
- Include how the change affected the human resources function.
Format your assignment and reference page consistent with APA guidelines
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Change Management Plan
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CHANGE MANAGEMENT PLAN
A change management plan and its performance implications in Southwest airlines
Introduction
Southwest airlines deal with the airline industry, and its revenue is obtained from the air
transportation services. The company faces competition from other firms in the air industry. To
gain competitive advantage over the other firms, the organization should provide best airline
services such as good customer care services. Southwest airline has been able to achieve the
competitive advantage through its lower prices and maintaining good customer relationship
through by improving travel services. To improve the critical performance of the organization,
there has been constant change initiated. The change that has been executed is the changes in
technical team leadership and the lineup. The CEO of the company was interviewed in the case
or the change, and he confirmed on the issue. He gave explanations on how the change was
executed and the benefits of it to the South West organization (Jones, 2015).
The purpose for the change
The goal of the change is to ensure effectiveness in operations of the systems of the
company. The key reason for the changes that were executed in technology leadership
department is to ensure the activities of the organization regarding its systems and technology
services are improved. Another reason for the change that was executed is to increase the
performance level of the team (Vowles, 2013).
From the interview with the CEO organizational crisis and performance gap in the
technological department was one of the reasons to execute changes in Southwest airline.
Performance of an organization is very important, and if there is performance gap in the
organizations, the profits of the company start to decline. It was, therefore, essential to execute
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the plan to solve the crisis within the organization and filling the performance gap as the change
will enable improved performance.
The people involved in the change
The people involved in the change include the shareholders of the company, the
leadership team of the company, other employees and the customers and clients of the
organization. The stakeholders will want to get assurance of wh...
