3.1: Change Management1.Planning and Executing Change Effectively.pdf
As you read this section, pay very close attention to the material on Kurt Lewin’s three-stage model of planned change. This will be an important base of knowledge for you to have in this unit. After reading this section, critically evaluate the reasons why concepts like “unfreezing” and inclusion can help to bring about change in an organization. Write your response in your journal in the form of an essay of 350–500 words.

2.Boundless Management-Managing Change for Organizations.pdfRead this section. Then, thinking back to what you read about Kurt Lewin in the previous resource, discuss why Lewin’s research on change is applicable today. You should be picking up on a theme in this course about how the ways our concept of leadership has evolved over time and differed among various professional environments, such as national politics, professional athletics, and of course, business.

3.Kentucky State University-Charles R Nichols-The need for communicating change.pdfRead this article. Can you think of a time when you felt left in the dark about a change? How did it make you feel, and how did you react? Respond in your journal, and consider posting your reflection in the discussion forum.

4.Colin Prices-Encouraging Organizations to Change-The Influence Model.pdfRead this article. Colin Price describes a square with four quadrants that represents how management is able to introduce change. Read this information carefully and make a pictoral representation of the model Price describes in your journal.