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SEA TREASURES ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE 1 Sea Treasures MGT 435 Organization Change Kelvin M. Spencer Ashford University Forbes School of Business April 3, 2016 Dr. Lisa Toler SEA TREASURES ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE 2 As Sales and Marketing Director for Sea Treasures, I recognize a need to increase revenue by implementing an internet website ordering system to sell the large inventory of aquarium decorator items (currently gathering dust in a costly warehouse). The company is dangerously clo...

RUNNING HEAD: CHANGE MODEL Change Model Name MGT 435 Organizational Change Change Model The company I would like to discuss today is XYZ, Inc. This company is trying to move overseas to open up for the expansion of their business that can bring success or be a disaster. I would like to discuss how using organizational life-cycle model for short-term and small-scale change for opening stores in Shanghai, China and for long-term I would like to use Kotter’s This study source was downlo...

GT.435 Week 5 Discussion Question 1 – Partnerships: View the Malcolm Gladwell video, Malcolm Gladwell on Innovation, about today’s customers desiring partnerships. How does employee empowerment aid in building partnerships between companies and their customers? Describe why the structure of an Agile Organization might meet the goal of empowerment and partnership. Provide an example from your experience as an employee or customer. Construct your answer from the theories you’ve learned. Revi...

Long-Term, Large Scale Change In the long-term, we at Sea Treasures are looking to offer our live sea creatures to be offered for sale online. Once we begin to move enough of the product from our warehouse, we will have the means to begin sales of our live sea creatures through our Website. In this change we will be using Ackerman and Anderson’s road map for change. There are nine steps in this road map, but it allows us to go back and assess our progress and continue to make changes nee...

MGT 435 / MGT435 ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE WEEK 3 - Quiz Due Oct 20, 2019 at 11:59pm Points 10 Questions 10 Time Limit None Instructions This quiz consists of 10 questions and is worth 5% of your course grade. Attempt History Attempt Time Score LATEST Attempt 1 39 minutes 9 out of 10 Score for this quiz: 9 out of 10 Submitted Oct 11, 2019 at 1:40pm This attempt took 39 minutes. Question 1 1 / 1 pts For which company did Alan Mulally previously work that prep...

Question 4 Under what category does “external stakeholders” fit when diagnosing types of change and level of intervention? Correct! people culture strategy structure

MGT 435 WEEK 2 QUIZ WITH ANSWERSMGT 435 WEEK 2 QUIZ WITH ANSWERS Which of the following is an especially critical factor for diagnosing, planning, and implementing organizational change? the change model the organization selects Correct! the expertise and experience of the organization’s leaders, managers, and change specialists the expertise and experience of the leaders of competing organizations the expertise and experience of the organization’s legal staff The cor...

MGT 435 WEEK 2 QUIZ 2MGT 435 WEEK 2 QUIZ 2 Question 1 1 / 1 pts Which of the following is NOT a step in the action research model? collect data Correct! articulate trigger questions formulate preliminary diagnosis identify the problem or opportunity The correct answer can be found in Section 2.5 under the heading “How to Change Using Action Research” in Organizational Change, Second Edition. Question 2 1 / 1 pts Organizational inertia refers to the tendency of organizations to...