Management Assignment - Due in 24 hours

Assignment 1 - Critical Essay

35 marks, 2000 words

Session four of this course discusses nine different change tools. Your task is to choose two, and critically evaluate their usefulness to effect change for BOTH a manufacturing company and a service company. Note: you are NOT to investigate Lewin's Classical Model.

The available change tools to evaluate are:

 Socio-technical system approach

 The organisation development school

 The learning organisation

 Lean production

 TQM

 Business process re-engineering

 Best practice

 The high-performance work organisation.

Your evaluation should resolve the question “Are these change tools appropriate, not

appropriate, or partially appropriate to change both a manufacturing company, and a

service company?” along with an explanation of how you reached that conclusion.

Notes:

For a 2000 word essay such as this, we expect at least 10 peer-reviewed academic

journal article references.

The layout of the essay should follow the structure in the flier titled “Writing an

Essay”, available from the Learning Centre at: http://our.murdoch.edu.au/Student-

life/Study-successfully/Study-Skills/Writing-assignments/

You are to use Chicago 16 referencing, following the requirements described at the

official Murdoch Library page: http://libguides.murdoch.edu.au/Chicago

A marking rubric for this assignment is in the “Assessments” section of Moodle.

All other information regarding assessments, including this one, can be found in the

Unit Guide.