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In your response to two peers, address the following:

· Compare your experiences related to organizational change management with those of your peers. Do you share the same experience of what worked well and what didn’t?

· Do you think any of the organizational changes in your peers’ examples could have been handled better? How?

Peer 1:

Some professional and functional skills I have acquired in my MBA journey are marketing skills and creating financial reports. I have learned a multitude of things during my MBA journey but, those two skills have stood out in this learning journey.

I have been impacted by strategic decisions that led to organizational transformation in my current workplace. My department reorganized and switched everyone's team due to business needs. This transition was not the best. The leadership I transition to expected productivity and quality to be at a 100% 3 weeks after the transition. No training was provided and none of my peers were familiar with all payers we were required to review. On top of that our manager went on a medical leave for 3-4 months. The team's morale declined, and no one was motivated. Our manager came back from leave of absence and those who were newly hired prior to her leaving had their probationary period extended for 30 days as no one was meeting productivity. This included myself.  This transition took months to cope with because no help was provided. My peers and I began working together and helping one another out the best we could. Hoping for the very best. It is just now getting better. 

I look forward to an awesome term and to learning something new :-)!

Peer 2:

Strategic change and organizational change are things that don't coexist in my organization. There are too many fathers and not enough sons to make the job easier, but we work every day because we have to and we want to. Working for veterans is fulfilling, but leadership is not helpful at times. 

I have been impacted twice by change. First was training on a system that would be defunct by the time we graduated training, and second, they introduced a new production recording system, and we can no longer trust the old one. In a production-based job, that is critical. Organizational change is being driven by those who no longer work but make policy, hence the issues. Transitionally, we are in a 90-day window for error reporting, so hopefully, we are situated and ready to move forward by the end of the day.