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LEAD 530 Term Project: Organizational Change Analysis

In addition to objective assessment (quizzes and tests), your ability to apply change leadership concepts studied in this class will be evaluated in a term project. You are asked to identify an organizational change, successful or not, where you have sufficient insight into the change process to complete the analysis. If you do not have personal experience to draw on, select a public organizational change where you can research the entire process. Your analysis will be submitted in the form of a term paper. The assignment is completed in two parts:

(1) a one-page proposal (50 pts.), submitted at mid-term

(2) the final paper (250 pts.), submitted near the end of the semester

Step 1: Identify an organizational change

This may be something from the news, historical, or from your personal experience as an organizational member. Please note this does not relate to your personal life, your interpersonal relationships, etc. – we are focused on organizational change leadership in this course. The organization may be governmental (including military), non-profit, or for-profit in nature. The change you select for this analysis should have occurred in the past so that you may apply all four phases.

Step 2: Write a 1-page summary of the organizational change and submit for approval

This should give some information about the organization (where located, what its focus is, number of organizational members, etc.). At least one paragraph should be devoted to an overview of the organizational change you will address. This submission also serves as the first page of the final paper. In addition to instructor approval of organization choice, this one page will be evaluated for any necessary revisions or corrections.

Step3: Write the analysis and submit

Once you receive the approval for your topic, begin to apply the four primary phases as outlined in the text (prelaunch, launch, postlaunch, and sustaining). Apply all of the phases in your review of the organization’s change process and leadership. You are restricted to one page per section as identified below. This will force you to revise and rewrite for clarity and conciseness. Your organizational change analysis should have the following structure when submitted:

Title Page

Page 1 – Summary of organization and the change experienced (this page submitted as proposal at mid-term)

Page 2 – Prelaunch phase applied to the change

Page 3 – Launch phase applied to the change

Page 4 – Postlaunch phase applied to the change

Page 5 – Sustaining the change as applied to this particular change

Page 6 – Summary

Reference Page

Please use APA style for this paper, including a title page (example follows). This purpose of this project is for you to demonstrate your understanding of and ability to apply the phases. This is not a research paper and you are not required or expected to introduce additional references if you have firsthand knowledge of the organizational change. If you opted to research an organizational change and apply the phases, then do include those references along with the reference of your textbook (example follows). Other APA helps can be found on our Links tab within Blackboard.

GE and Jack Welch

LEAD 530 – Organizational Change Cindy L. Ehresman November 3, 2018

Founded in 1892, the General Electric Company is one of the biggest multinational companies in the United States. This conglomerate has its headquarters in Boston but it was incorporated in New York. In addition, the company is owned by Charles Coffin and Thomas Alva Edison Schenectady who opted to merge their companies, the Thomson-Houston Electric Company and the Edison General Electric Company respectively to become the General Electric Company. Among the key areas that the GE Company operates include but not limited to venture finance and capital, aviation, healthcare, power and renewable energy, transportation, additive manufacturing, lighting, oil, and gas to mention but a few. The company also has not less than 300,000 workers with more than 134,000 working in the United States (Hess, A. E., 2013).

In the 20th century, the company managed to open up many branches or divisions because of its capability of specializing in everything ranging from vice radios to electric fans, plastics to airplanes among others. Through such a wide range of business, the GE Company is remembered for its first voice radio broadcast globally, a radio that was operating on the vacuum tubes. What followed was even huge. In between 1910-1920, the GE innovated airplane, refrigerators and significant electrical facility on the canal of Panama (GE, 2013).

Additionally, the company was not greatly affected by the Great Depression. It continued to innovate in other sectors particularly in the Consumer Finance System. This development enables the customers of the company to buy their home appliances during these difficult times. Besides, the company innovated not only radar technology but the first jet engine that greatly assisted in the World War II efforts. In the 1950s, the company continued to grow by investing its massive resources not only in the fields of technology but across every sector and tapping into emerging global markets.

In 1980, Jack Welch took the CEO chair of GE. The organizational method of conducting business when Welch took the CEO chair was outdated and no longer fit the needs of the organization and its future. The GE Company not only had a rigid structure but it was also resistant to change (Hess, A. E., 2013). Furthermore, the organizational decision-making structure and processes, and its information management were driving the organization to a loss in revenue and capital (General Electric under Jack Welch). One of the first steps Welch took was reorganizing the structure and administration of the company. Then he sought to invest and mergers most of the top market companies. In the 1990’s, a program known as the Six Sigma Welch was established. The program through minimized defective units of production maximizes the manufacturing processes efficiencies (Hess, A. E., 2013).

References

GE. (2013). About GE. Retrieved from https://www.ge.com/about-us/history/thomas-edison

General Electric under Jack Welch. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://lawaspect.com/general-electric-jack-welch-2/

Hess, A. E. (2013, August 22). The 10 largest employers in America. Retrieved from

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/08/22/ten-largest-employers/2680249/