Due Week 6 and worth 140 points

Using the company that your instructor previously approved, apply  Kotter’s eight (8) steps of change management to an HR situation you  have selected for change. You will address all eight (8) of the Kotter  steps, developing an action plan for each step. Use a tablet,  smartphone, laptop, desktop, or traditional video recorder to record a  maximum of a five to seven (5-7) minute dynamic video on the topics  detailed below. Alternatively, you may submit a four to six (4-6) page  paper instead of the video submission.

Note: If you are using a tablet or smartphone you  will need to email the video file to yourself, then save it to a  computer in order to upload to Blackboard. You may want to upload your  video to a file sharing service, such as Dropbox, if your email will not  let you send a large video file. Dropbox is accessible from all  smartphones and tablets from the Dropbox app.

Please use the following naming convention in the popup window for your video once it is finished uploading:

Title: Your First Name, Your Last Name – Managing Organizational Change

Tags: HRM560, Organizational Change

Description: First Name, Last Name – HRM560 Assignment 3 (Date Uploaded ex. 11-14-2014)

Prepare and present a video that is a maximum of five to seven (5-7) minutes OR write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Ascertain how each of the steps applies to your specific organization.
2. Develop a strategy that illustrates how you would address each of the eight (8) stages of change:
   1. Establishing a sense of urgency
   2. Creating coalition
   3. Developing vision and strategy
   4. Communicating the vision
   5. Empowering broad-based action
   6. Generating short-term wins
   7. Consolidating gains and producing more change
   8. Anchoring new approaches into the culture
3. Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other similar Websites do not qualify as academic resources

Note: If you choose to submit a video presentation, please also submit a one (1) page summary of your presentation.

If you choose the written paper, your assignment must follow these formatting requirements

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with  one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA  or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional  instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the  student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.  The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required  assignment page length.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Compare theories of change management and select an appropriate theory for an organization change.

• Analyze diagnostic models relevant to various aspects of the change management process.
• Use technology and information resources to research issues in managing organizational change.
• Write clearly and concisely about managing organizational change using proper writing mechanics.

• Identify organizational changes that link to vision. 

Directions: Answer the following questions on a separate document. Explain how you reached the answer or show your work if a mathematical calculation is needed, or both. Submit your assignment using the assignment link above.

In your own words, complete the Mini-Case on Page 562 of your textbook.

Suppose you decide (as did Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg) to start a company. Your product is a software platform that integrates a wide range of media devices, including laptop computers, desktop computers, digital video recorders, and cell phones. Your initial market is the student body at your university. Once you have established your company and set up procedures for operating it, you plan to expand to other colleges in the area and eventually to go nationwide. At some point, hopefully sooner rather than later, you plan to go public with an IPO and then to buy a yacht and take off for the South Pacific to indulge in your passion for underwater photography. With these issues in mind, you need to answer for yourself, and potential investors, the following questions.

1. What is an agency relationship? When you first begin operations, assuming you are the only employee and only your money is invested in the business, would any agency conflicts exist? Explain your answer
2. If you expanded and hired additional people to help you, might that give rise to agency problems?

1. Suppose you need additional capital to expand and you sell some stock to outside investors. If you maintain enough stock to control the company, what type of agency conflict might occur?
2. Suppose your company raises funds from outside lenders. What type of agency costs might occur? How might lenders mitigate the agency costs?
3. Suppose your company is very successful and you cash out most of your stock and turn the company over to an elected board of directors. Neither you nor any other stockholders own a controlling interest (this is the situation at most public companies). List six potential managerial behaviors that can harm a firm’s value.

1. What is corporate governance? List five corporate governance provisions that are internal to a firm and are under its control.
2. What characteristics of the board of directors usually lead to effective corporate governance?
3. List three provisions in the corporate charter that affect takeovers.
4. Briefly describe the use of stock options in a compensation plan. What are some potential problems with stock options as a form of compensation?
5. What is block ownership? How does it affect corporate governance?

1. Briefly explain how regulatory agencies and legal systems affect corporate governance.

Using the organization that your instructor preapproved, diagnose the  organization’s level of resistance and construct a solid communication  plan. Use a tablet, smartphone, laptop, desktop, or traditional video  recorder to record a maximum of a five to seven (5-7) minute dynamic  video on the topics detailed below. Alternatively, you may submit a four  to six (4-6) page paper instead of the video submission.

Note: If you are using a tablet or smartphone you  will need to email the video file to yourself, then save it to a  computer in order to upload to Blackboard. You may want to upload your  video to a file sharing service, such as Dropbox, if your email will not  let you send a large video file. Dropbox is accessible from all  smartphones and tablets from the Dropbox app.

Please use the following naming convention in the popup window for your video once it is finished uploading:

Title: Your First Name, Your Last Name – Managing Organizational Change

Tags: HRM 560, Organizational Change

Description: First Name, Last Name – HRM560 Assignment 4 (Date Uploaded ex. 11-14-2014)

Prepare and present a video that is a maximum of five to seven (5-7) minutes OR write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you:

1. Diagnose the reasons for resistance to change.
2. Interpret the potential causes of resistance in the organization.  Identify and describe three (3) potential causes of resistance to your  change plan. Identify and describe three (3) potential sources of  resistance to your change plan.

1. Create a plan for minimizing possible resistance to your change management plan.

1. Elaborate on the relationship between resistance to change and communication.
2. Evaluate three (3) communication strategies.
3. Recommend one (1) communication strategy that would be applicable to  your organization. Diagnose why this communication strategy is best for  your organization.
4. Create a solid communication plan for your change initiative.
5. Use at least four (4) quality academic resources in this assignment. Note: Wikipedia and other similar Websites do not qualify as academic resource

Note I you choose to submit a video presentation, please also submit a one (1) page summary of your presentation.

If you choose the written paper, your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with  one-inch margins on all sides; citations and references must follow APA  or school-specific format. Check with your professor for any additional  instructions.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the  student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.  The cover page and the reference page are not included in the required  assignment page length.

Identify a problem you face regularly in your clinical setting.

Next, identify how this problem could be framed as a policy issue.

What is in the Law? Discuss 5 things that are listed in the Affordable Care Act.

 Discuss Congenital Immunodeficiency 

Discuss Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and clinical manifestations 

What are The Effects of a Major Burn?

One way of relating sociocultural theory to your life is to think of the bridges you have crossed to get where you are. People, both past and present, can be bridges in that their efforts make it possible for you to do the things you do. Oprah Winfrey talks about the bridges in her life: Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Fannie Lou Hammer, and others. Which people have been bridges for you? Why?