Polish previous assignments

Instructions select one learning outcome from your program of study. Then, select two graded artifacts (i.e., written assignments, projects, papers, discussion posts, or responses) that you feel best demonstrate your mastery of the selected program outcome.

When selecting a previous work sample, you can review and retrieve your Waypoint assignments from previous courses from within Waypoint itself.

Utilizing the feedback you received on these artifacts from your instructor as well as the things you have learned since submitting this work, revise and expand on these artifacts to create polished and corrected examples that you can add to your portfolio. 

· Utilize track changes to make additions, corrections, and changes to your work in order for the instructor to review the changes that were made.

· Add two additional professional and current resources to support and improve your artifacts. 

Submit

· Combine the two updated artifacts (include track changes) into one document and submit via Waypoint. (I will do the submitting portion of the assignment)

· Then remove the tracked changes from the artifacts and add the polished and corrected artifacts to your portfolio with the correct heading and description of the selected program learning outcome. Insert a link to your portfolio in a Word document and submit via Waypoint. If needed, review the Week 1 Folio resources. ( I will do the folio portion)

· Please have two documents one document to reflect track change one document to reflect polished work

Learning outcome: Apply best practices in the field regarding professional values, ethics, attitudes, and behaviors;

Two graded artifacts

Graded artifact 1: “Identity a recent successful change initiative that has been made in your organization or in an organization with which you are familiar”

A recent successful change that has been made in an organization that I am familiar with involved switchingpermanently to remote work by embracing full digital transformation at all levels of the organization.

“Discuss the specific challenges that led to the need for change and evaluate how leaders faced these challenges and used the as an opportunity to make improvements in the organization”

The major challenge that led to this transformation is the COVID19 pandemic. In an effort to contain the spread of the disease governments across the world announced lock downs which forced business to shut down in order to comply with the regulations put in place. Upon opening up there were still restrictions placed on the number of workers allowed in addition to social distancing guidelines that ought to be met. Leaders at the organization took this upon themselves to embrace the new reality and make a shift to fully remote in order to avoid interruptions. By pursuing such leaders improved their organizations and enabled them to bounce back from the effects of the COVID 19 pandemic compared to competitors who were not willing to embrace the new reality. Improvements realized by the organization due to full working remote included reduction in costs, time saving and improved productivity. Employers and workers both benefit from the cost advantages that remote work delivers. Employers have significantly cut the cost of corporate travel, while employees have avoided the expense of travelling to and from work (Toikka, 2021). Individuals discover that they have significantly more time for their jobs and their family because they no longer have to commute vast distances to work or go to other towns or countries. Increased productivity, more time with family, exercise, and relaxation may all be achieved by taking advantage of this "found time." Working from home has shown to be more productive for many people and their firms, which has shocked many people and their organizations alike (de Lucas Ancillo et al., 2020). Apart from the apparent benefit of saving time on commuting and flying, they also discovered that they were more productive when working away from the usual workplace distractions and noise levels were lower.

“Describe the specific change management leadership characteristics and behaviors you saw leaders display in leading the change effort and how these characteristics and behaviors led to the successful implementation of the change”

Specific change management leadership characteristics and behaviors witnessed involved adaptability, strategic thinking, decisiveness and communication. It through such characteristicsand behaviors that the organization was able to adapt to the new reality, formulate a strategy for fully shifting to working remote, openly communicate the changes and plan to shift to fully working remote before making the decision to make the shift.

 

References

de Lucas Ancillo, A., del Val Núñez, M. T., & Gavrila, S. G. (2020). Workplace change within the COVID-19 context: a grounded theory approach. Economic Research-Ekonomska Istraživanja, 34(1), 1–20. https://doi.org/10.1080/1331677x.2020.1862689

Toikka, L. (2021). People managers’ perceptions of changes during the shift to remote work. Aaltodoc.aalto.fi. https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/handle/123456789/110508

FEEDBACK GIVEN FROM ARTIFACT 1: Great work with your initial post. Implementing a remote work policy at your organization appears to have a huge impact on the business.

Graded artifact number two : Mr. Chan’s organization is facing critical leadership challenges. These challenges make it difficult for workers to be done in the required manner. For Mr. Chan to provide a conducive work environment he has to implement the following changes. The organization should change the mode of communication and information transfer within the organization, improve technology in the organization for information storage and have team meetings that will foster bonding within the organization. Change the communication system in the organization. Changing communication and transfer of information will help the organization in making information on the processes that are going on in the organization to be available for the team to access for easy operations. This will foster teamwork and collaboration between the different departments that Mr. Chan has in his organization (Krajcsák, 2019). This means the organization has information stored in one cloud that will help each department get updates and responses on the way forward in their operations. Improving technology and having the same informational system will help the organization solve the issue of a filling system that the employees were complaining about. There will be no loss of documents and retrieval if employee information will be made easier within the organization. Technology improvement can help in the marketing of the products and transfer of information between organizations hence reducing the cost of traveling. This includes emailing and social media platforms that can be advantageous to the organizations marketing strategies (Matosas-López, 2021). The organization should hold meetings for all staff to be able to create a conducive working environment. this meeting should be mandatory for all staff members to create a bond between the staff members in the organization. Having a team, the work, and coordination facilitates creativity and hard work within the organization (Krajcsák, 2019). By doing this the organization will be impressing employee contribution and involvement within the organization. An organization where employees are involved in decision-making processes always encourages the employees to have loyalty to the organization since they feel recognized by their fellow workmates.

References

Krajcsák, Z. (2019). Leadership strategies for enhancing employee commitment in TQM. Journal of Management Development, 38(6), 455–463. https://doi.org/10.1108/jmd-02-2019-0056

Matosas-López, L. (2021). The Management of Digital Marketing Strategies in Social Network Services: A Comparison between American and European Organizations. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity, 7(1), 65. https://doi.org/10.3390/joitmc7010065

FEEDBACK GIVEN FOR ARTIFACT NUMBER TWO: Do make sure you are supporting your peer responses with research and/or data, as well as meeting the length requirements. Use your research to support your thoughts and ideas being shared in the forum. As we have seen, leaders can take many different approaches to managing change. The fact is that change is inevitable, which means the right leaders are necessary to the success of an organization or in this case HCSC. I always find it interesting to see how many different viewpoints can exist on one topic. Keep up the hard work as we move forward.