Creating Change in Individuals and Organizations, business and finance homework help

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Please use General Motors for each weeks assignments

Week 1 Key Assignment

Part 1- APA style 700-900 Words with at least 2 scholarly references

Part one of this week’s assignment: you will be profiling 1 organization and interpreting change as it applies to the organization and the individuals within that organization. Before you begin your assignment, choose the organization that you would like to profile for this course.

For this assignment, you will need to do the following:

  • Identify the organization that you have selected to profile throughout this course.
    • Include a brief summary of the organization (maximum 1–2 paragraphs).
  • Research the following 4 paradigms:
    • The economic paradigm
    • The individual differences paradigm
    • The human relations paradigm
    • The cognitive paradigm
  • Discuss each of the 4 paradigms. Discuss their early historical significance to the field of organizational change.

Part 2- APA style 700-900 Words with at least 2 scholarly references

Part two of this week’s assignment: your role will be an organizational change agent evaluating the organization that you have chosen to analyze in this course. To complete this assignment, research the 4 steps of strategic management change, identify a change that has occurred in your organization, and then detail the organization's progression through the 4 steps of strategic management change. In addition, identify some ways that your organization fosters learning and development, utilizes knowledge management, and utilizes strategic systems-oriented approaches to foster positive change.

The 4 steps of strategic management are as follows:

  1. Environmental scanning
  2. Strategy formulation
  3. Strategy implementation
  4. Strategy evaluation

The types of change that you may examine in your organization include the following:

  • Strategic: Sometimes, in the course of normal business operation, it is necessary for management to adjust the firm's strategy to achieve the goals of the company, or even to change the mission statement of the organization in response to demands of the external environments.
  • Structural: Organizations often find it necessary to redesign the structure of the company because of influences from the external environment.
  • People-centered: This type of change is aimed at altering the attitudes, behaviors, skills, or performance of employees in the company.

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Creating Change in Individuals and Organizations
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Part 1
Company Introduction
General Motors Company is also known as GM is an American multinational corporation
headquartered in Detroit, Michigan. The company designs manufacture sells and distributes
motor vehicle and motor vehicle accessories. The company was founded in 1908 by William C.
Durant and Charles Stewart. Currently, the company is listed among Fortune 500, and it is
among S&P 500 companies. The company stocks trade under the name GM in the New York
Security Exchange (GM.com, 2017). The company currently has over 250,000 employees
operating in six continents with 23 different time zones. General Motors provide a complete
range of vehicles that meets the customer needs and expectations in a global scale. Under the
General Motors corporate umbrella, the company manufactures ten different car brands including
Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, Opel, Wuling, Buick, Jiefang, and Vauxhall. The company
employs the finest workforce with a high level of diversity consideration (GM.com, 2017).
General Motors is founded on the idea that change is inevitable and people are the core to
organizational success. In this regard, GM is committed to treating its diverse employees and
customers with respect, appreciating customers ensuring their values and needs are integrated
into the design and manufacturing.
The economic paradigm
Economic paradigm was highly significant in the field of organizational change.
Fluctuations in the economies impacted either negatively or positively on the general operational
procedures of the organizations. Whenever the organization is not able to thrive within the harsh
economic environment, they are prompted to make desperate changes so as to maintain stability.

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The emergence of new economic paradigm at GM can be explained by two different but
interrelated phenomena. First, there has been a long-term decline in the global economic
environment promoting structural changes within th...


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