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ORG4801 ASSESSMENT 2 2024 As a BCom Honours student at the University of South Africa (Unisa), your Change Management module lecturer, Dr A Pinduko, has asked you to write a 3 000-word essay on organisational change based on the DBS Bank case study. To w$5.68
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ORG4801 ASSESSMENT 2 2024 As a BCom Honours student at the University of South Africa (Unisa), your Change Management module lecturer, Dr A Pinduko, has asked you to write a 3 000-word essay on organisational change based on the DBS Bank case study. To w
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The Management of Organisational Change and Renewa (ORG4801)
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University Of South Africa (Unisa)
ORG4801 ASSESSMENT 2 2024
As a BCom Honours student at the University of South Africa (Unisa), your Change Management module lecturer, Dr A Pinduko, has asked you to write a 3 000-word essay on organisational change based on the DBS Bank case study. To write and submit an academically sound essa...
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Question 1 [35]
As a BCom Honours student at the University of South Africa (Unisa), your Change
Management module lecturer, Dr A Pinduko, has asked you to write a 3 000-word
essay on organisational change based on the DBS Bank case study. To write and
submit an academically sound essay that blends theory and practice, Dr Pinduko
has asked you to use the prescribed study materials as your primary source of
theory as well as publicly available information to connect theory and practice.
However, to expand your knowledge and understanding of the phenomenon you are
writing about, Dr Pinduko has asked you to identify and make use of relevant
supplementary material that can be accessed and downloaded from the Unisa
Library. In your essay, identify and critically discuss the following:
(i) The sources of change at the bank
Many of the opportunities and threats that trigger change can be found in an
organization’s external environment, but some originate from within the system itself.
This chapter reviews a range of external and internal sources of change and
explores some of the issues that affect an organization’s ability to recognize the
opportunity or need for change.
External sources of change
Some managers appear to be better than others when it comes to identifying
opportunities and threats in the external environment. Successful entrepreneurs
seem to be particularly good at this and use intuition to identify opportunities in
situations where many others see only chaos, contradictions and confusion (Allinson
et al., 2000). There are, however, some useful analytical tools that everybody can
use to help them search the external environment for opportunities and threats. The
acronym PEST refers to an analytical tool that focuses attention on political,
economic, sociocultural and technological trends that managers need to be aware of:
Political factors: include new legislation in areas such as environmental
management, consumer protection and employment; regulation of markets in areas
such as banking, telecommunications and broadcasting; fiscal policies and so on.
Organizations that operate in international markets need to be aware of how
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