Dy3001 personal and organizational change

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DY3001: Assessment Instructions

Review the details of your assessment including the rubric. You will have the ability to submit the assessment once you earn a score of 80% or better on all of the related sub-competency quizzes and engage with your Faculty Subject Matter Expert (SME) in a substantive way about the competency.

Overview

For this Assessment, you will respond to a series of short-answer questions regarding personal and organizational change.

Assessment Submission Length: 11 items, with responses ranging in length from 75–300 words (1–4 paragraphs) per item

Professional Skills: Written Communication and Information Literacy are assessed in this Competency.

Instructions

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Download and review the following case:

Askin, N., & Petriglieri, G. (2016, August 26). Case: Tony Hsieh at Zappos: Structure, culture and radical change. Harvard Business Publishing. Retrieved from http://hbsp.harvard.edu

Download the DY3001 Written Response Template and answer each question in the number of paragraphs indicated.

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All submissions must follow the Academic Writing Expectations. For each item, be sure to reference at least one scholarly source to support your answer. Properly formatted APA citations and references must be provided where appropriate. Submissions that do not meet these expectations will be returned without scoring.

This Assessment requires submission of one (1) document: a completed Written Response Template. Save this file as DY3001_firstinitial_lastname (for example, DY3001_J_Smith).

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Click on each of the following items to reveal details about Parts 1 and 2 of the Assessment.

Part 1: Personal Change

Examine the factors that can lead a person to change. In your response, provide at least two examples of personal change and include the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that contributed to those examples of personal change. (150–225 words, or 2–3 paragraphs)

Describe an aspect of yourself or area in your life in which you experienced a personal change for the better. Explain what motivated you to make this change and what the results were (negative and/or positive). (150–225 words, or 2–3 paragraphs)

Analyze the importance of change for individuals. In your response, weigh the pros and cons of having a change mindset. Include two examples of positive outcomes from incorporating personal change and two examples of potentially negative consequences, either from incorporating personal change or from failing to incorporate personal change. (150–225 words, or 2–3 paragraphs)

Part 2: Organizational Change

Explain what organizational change is and identify three examples of specific drivers, or causes, of organizational change. (150–225 words, or 2–3 paragraphs)

Explain the importance of change for organizations. How does change affect business outcomes, either in a positive or a negative way? (150–225 words, or 2–3 paragraphs)

Identify three causes of failure in organizational change efforts. (75–150 words, or 1–2 paragraphs)

Explain organizational culture and its importance to the success of a business or organization. (75–150 words, or 1–2 paragraphs)

Explain how organizational culture can affect the process for organizational change. (75–150 words, or 1–2 paragraphs)

For items 9–11, review the “Tony Hsieh at Zappos: Structure, Culture and Change” case study and do some research on your own to locate additional information and insights about Zappos’s corporate culture.

Analyze the elements of Zappos’s corporate culture that enabled successful implementation of the organizational change described. In your analysis, be sure to describe the culture at Zappos. (150–225 words, or 2–3 paragraphs)

Examine the forces that drove the organizational change at Zappos. (150–225 words, or 2–3 paragraphs)

Analyze how organizational change can impact both leaders and employees. In your response, consider the specific situation at Zappos. How would you have felt as an employee undergoing the change to a holacracy? How might your experience have differed if you were in a leadership role during this change? (225–300 words, or 3–4 paragraphs)