Organizational Change Intervention Proposal
To begin, go to the Week 6 Final Assignment and read it all the way through. The Organizational Change Intervention Proposal is the culmination of what you will learn in this course. You will be working toward finalizing this assignment every week. This week you will select a company that needs change intervention and draft a 1 page overview of the company, and include the resources used to compile the overview. Search for a company that you have read about either in the newspaper or online that you feel should undergo an organizational transformation (Examples: Apple, Bank of America, Wal-Mart, Comcast, Chevy, Wachovia Bank, Aetna, etc.). You will research the organization and propose a change intervention later in this course. This process will help you to understand how the organizational change process works. The University of the Rockies library is a good place to start researching. Keep track of your resources as you collect them. You will be required to assemble an annotated bibliography as part of the final assignment submission. Review the assignment rubric for grading criteria of the deliverables for this week.
This week you will submit the following:
Point Value: 10 Points
Weekly Learning Outcome Alignment: 1, 2
Course Learning Outcome Alignment: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Carefully review the Grading Rubric (Links to an external site.) for the criteria that will be used to evaluate your assignment.
Week 6 – Assignment
Organizational Change Intervention Proposal
The Organizational Change Intervention Proposal is your final project. It is a research study in which you plan a change intervention for an organization of your choice. Consider yourself a strategic business partner in constructing and implementing an organizational intervention. Research a company that you have read about either in the newspaper or online that you feel should undergo an organizational transformation (Examples: Apple, Bank of America, Wal-Mart, Comcast, Chevy, Wachovia Bank, Aetna, etc.) Through research, you will gather information and insights that will help you develop a strategic change intervention for the company. The change intervention may attempt to affect change and improve areas such as human resources, marketing, finance, the organizational structure, or its decision-making processes of the company. This project will help you to understand how the organizational change process works and will give you some relevant experience analyzing and planning change for an organization. You are expected to submit a complete bibliography of scholarly resources to support your findings in the proposal. Do not rely solely on your textbooks for content, although they are a good starting point. Leverage the Ashford University Library and Writing Center resources for instructions and guidance when conducting research and organizing the proposal.
Some scholarly sources from the school library for you!!!
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Walmart is among the largest retail stores in the US, and it has branches in other countries globally. The company was initially based in Arkansas, where Sam Walton founded the company, but it has since revolutionized the retail industry. Sam Walton opened the store with the conviction that offering goods at low prices and having a good service delivery was crucial for its success. According to Fishman (2006), Walmart adopted a cost-cutting strategy that enabled the company to reduce operating costs and remain profitable. These cost-cutting measures have forced many companies to be bankrupt. Fishman (2006) says that the Walmart effect has revolutionized the retail store’s industry, starting from phasing out boxes for deodorants to introducing grocery stores in its supercenters. In the countries that the company has expanded to, Walmart has managed to adapt to the environment. Kolben (2007) asserts that this has influenced the company’s success in the new markets. The company is an anti-union
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