Choose your own assignment: please choose one of the two assignments below to complete for this week’s discussion. Option #1: Review the story box at the beginning of Chapter 14. Answer the questions raised using the text. You may want to review chapter four’s discussions of ethical theory. Please limit your comments to 500 words or less.Option #2: Research on-line auctions using the Internet. Using your research, Chapter 14, and the lecture for Chapter 14, answer the questions: why should you beware of "kid-bids" (bids by children)? What are other drawbacks to on-line auctions? Please limit your comments to 500 words or less and list websites you quote or cite at the bottom of your comments.

Part 1: Complete the Organizational Change Evaluation Tool Kotter’s 8 Steps to Organizational Change Model Chart Consider a past or current professional experience where a culture change was needed (Brookfield Properties Retail). Download the Organizational Change Evaluation Tool, and use this spreadsheet to outline information about the experience and organization following Kotter’s 8 Steps to Organizational Change Model as a guiding line. Step One: Create UrgencyStep Two: Form a Powerful CoalitionStep Three: Create a Vision for ChangeStep Four: Communicate the VisionStep Five: Remove ObstaclesStep Six: Create Short-Term WinsStep Seven: Build on the ChangeStep Eight: Anchor the Changes in Corporate CulturePart 2Propose a Change Management Plan Create a 7- to 10-slide presentation that shows your proposed improvements for the leadership of the organization you assessed in Part 1. Complete the following in your presentation: Assess the current culture within the organization at the time of your experience. Develop the Change Management Plan using Kotter’s 8 Steps to Organizational Change Model. Determine the desired outcome as a result of the proposed change. Analyze the alignment between the organizations, mission, vision, values, strategies, and the proposed Change Management Plan. Include detailed speaker notes. Ensure that your slides contain only essential information and minimal text.

Select a topic–Using your textbook’s table of contents as a guide, select a topic to research for the template. Choose a topic that is interesting to you and that may be useful and benefit you. It must, however, be directly relevant to this course’s content. Also, it MUST deal with a specific ethical, legal and business practice issue and not a broad philosophical category of thought. For instance, choosing the topic of “business ethics” is way, way too vague. Template Length–After you supply the appropriate information under each heading, your work will probably be 3–6 pages; more than that will be cumbersome. The intent is to be concise and to provide the most relevant, highest quality information possible. References–When addressing “Publications,” a few web sites will be good to have, but the main idea is to have some resources that you could mention in an interview. For example, if someone was to ask you where more information could be obtained about your topic, you would be able to rattle off several books or journal articles and their authors. This would make you seem very knowledgeable about it (and hopefully, you would be). Formatting–Use APA format for your printed references. For each section in the template, items should be written in bullet point format, not paragraph form. If need be, use a citation for each bullet point, unless information from a source is being used for more than one bullet point.Submission–Your assignment, when completed, should be sent to as a Microsoft Word document. You will submit your completed template through the course link in Module/Week 7. Also, provide a cover sheet for your template with your name, BMAL 560 class name, class number, and section.