Organizational Change and Development in Management Systems

Final Project Worksheet:
Organizational Change and
Development
in Management Systems
MGT
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DIRECTIONS ON USING THE WORKSHEET
The Worksheet is designed for learners to use as a running journal cataloguing their understanding of
the research. A separate workbook is used to catalogue understanding of the textbook to be used as an
additional resource for the final project. Each Section contains reflection questions related to the
assigned reading, which the learner must complete.
The course annotated bibliography assignments may be found after Units 2, 4, and 6 (in this Worksheet).
Further, the completed Worksheet is due during the final week of the course.
Revising Your Work
Please revise your writing as you complete the Worksheet. You should:
 Ensure your writing remains concise.
 Make sure that what you said is worth saying, what you wanted to say, and whether a reader
will understand what you are saying.
 Ask yourself whether your writing is relevant to the prompt or question.
Make sure you create the best Worksheet possible, ensure its readability, and transform it into a tool for
future classes and examinations.
Note: In some instances the articles may no longer be available. In that case,
locate an article in the LIRN that appears to address a similar topic and substitute
that article. Make a note in your paper to your instructor to let them know which
article you changed.
Important Due Dates and the Purpose of the Assignment
This assignment requires two separate submissions:
End of Week 6. Submit the Final Project Worksheet.
End of Week 6. Submit the completed essay with annotated references.
The purpose of this assignment is to analyze three journal articles every two weeks so as to address the
writing prompt. Further, you will gain experience in breaking apart journal articles into their
components, uncovering the nature of discourse oft encountered in articles, and figuring how both
shape the development of the topic covered by the articles. It is critical to remain mindful that you will
analyze three articles participating in a much larger academic conversation!
The Analysis Guide
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Your goal as an analytical essay writer is to break down the selected journal articles into components
useful for addressing the writing prompt. The guiding principle for this assignment is to adhere to the
prompt. You will be assessed on how well you communicate an analysis of the articles to a receptive
audience wanting to understand how the components connect and address the writing prompt.
Remember that only essays adhering to the prompt may obtain high marks.
Prepare Yourself as a Writer
As an aspiring analyst, you should engage a process allowing you to complete the Analysis Worksheet
while preparing to draft the analytical essay. Thus, before dashing into the assignment, you should:
 Break down the writing prompt into a checklist of goals necessary for successfully
completing the assignment.
 Find your weak spot. (A little more on this later!)
 Review, process, and submit the Analysis Worksheet on time as to obtain feedback.
 Brainstorm and outline the analytical essay using the feedback from the graded Analysis
Worksheet and your reading notes.
 Draft and revise the analytical essay before submitting it.
Remember, planning is a key to success. Make sure to have a schedule and do your best to stick with it!
Find Your Weak Spots
Jung once commented, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will
call it fate.” His words ring true aspiring writer unaware of and guided by their weaknesses. Thus, it is
important to uncover your weak spots and transform them into strengths benefiting your writing.
Transforming weakness into strength is an introspective effort requiring honesty while reading an
article. For example, if you find yourself:
 ...encountering terms and phrases you do not know, then it would be smart to look them
up.
 ...unable able to articulate the purpose of an article after reading it, then it would be a good
idea to Tackle the Analysis. (More on this in a moment.)
 ...struggling to recall noteworthy ideas appearing within the article, then it would be handy
to make margin notes, reading notes, and highlights of key concepts and terms.
 ...unable to formulate inferences after reading, then ask whether you read carefully enough!
The most significant action leading to the transformation of weakness to strength is being honest with
yourself when facing a challenge. Being honest with yourself may result in a feeling of being
overwhelmed. However, that is a good sign because you are acknowledging weaknesses and working on
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transforming them into knowledge supporting your role as a successful analyst. Take a few moments
and scan one of the articles as to find your weak spots. Then, immediately afterward, work on resolving
them into useful knowledge!
Tackle the Analysis
The analysis is simply not a set of steps to follow—it is an experience in which you will develop a
strategy suited for writing analytical essays. If you are new to analysis, then you should start by Working
the Prompt:
 Invest 5-10 minutes into carefully reading the prompt. Make sure you can articulate the
goals required to address the prompt. If you have questions, be sure to ask for help!
 Highlight essential terms and elements appearing within the prompt. It is important to
identify and understand the essence of the prompt and what it offers your analysis efforts.
Essential elements often include things such as: (a) titles; (b) publication dates; (c)
disciplines; and (d) the intentions of prompt.
The above activities should help you grasp the goals of your analytical essay. Now it is time to sit down
and work through the following activities for each article:
 Read the abstract and highlight the: (a) purpose; (b) method; and (c) findings of the study.
 Scan the article as to get a gist of the study and skip what you do not immediately
understand.
 Reread the article and use margin notes and highlights to help you mark important
information. Make sure you understand the elements you ignored while scanning the
article.
 Confirm that the highlights and margin notes help you see the content, utility, and value of
the article.
 Cluster highlighted segments and margins into groups sharing a common theme or idea. For
example, if you have a subset of margin notes all sharing a theme such as the struggles
faced by entrepreneurs in deregulated markets, then you may wish to lump them into a
single theme.
 Draw a picture relating themes, highlighted elements, and margin notes as to show
potential relationships.
Highlights and margin notes are important because they serve as reminders and help organize your
reading notes into themes. In turn, the themes may help organize your analytical essay and crystallize
your understanding of the articles.
UNITS ONE AND TWO ASSIGNMENT
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The assignment is to respond to the questions regarding three selected peer-reviewed journal articles.
The Writing Prompt
Buonocore (2004), Sutherland (2013), and Burnes (2004) offered diverging insights into the nature and
utilization of Lewin’s Change Management Theory. Although Buonocore, Sutherland, and Burnes
subscribe to the utility of Lewin’s theory for promoting organizational change, each express support
and concerns regarding Lewin’s theory. Your goal is to analyze, differentiate, and compare the
components (or themes) shaping Buonocore’s, Sutherland’s, and Burnes’ perspectives regarding the
utility of Lewin’s theory.
The articles are:
 Buonocore, D. (2004). Leadership in action: Creating a Change in Practice. AACN Clinical Issues,
15(2), 170-181. Retrieved from https://goo.gl/qdX97I
 Sutherland, K. (2013). Applying Lewin’s Change Management Theory to the Implementation of
Bar-Coded Medication Administration. Retrieved from https://goo.gl/rlpNSp
 Burnes, B. (2004). Kurt Lewin and the Planned Approach to Change: A Re-appraisal. Retrieved
from https://goo.gl/LEqULt
Important Due Dates and the Purpose of the Assignment
DUE DATE: This entire Worksheet is due in Unit 6. You will use the research you
conduct to complete the Final Project that is also due in Unit 6.
The purpose of this assignment is to analyze three journal articles. You will gain experience in breaking
apart journal articles into their components, uncovering the nature of discourse oft encountered in
articles, and figuring how both shape the development of the topic covered by the articles. It is critical
to remain mindful that you will analyze three articles participating in a much larger academic
conversation!
First Article
Question 1. What is the APA formatted reference for the article?
APA 6th formatting is used
Question 2. What is the purpose of the article? Use less than 50 words for your answer.
The main purpose of the article is to apply the Kurt Lewin model in the present healthcare scenario and
help the APN’S in carrying out various technological changes by applying the various stages and will
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help in this sectors to improve the performance.
Question 3. What is the subject, or topic, of the article? Use less than 50 words for your answer.
The main topic of discussion for this article is to help the APN’s in carrying out change by following
various steps of the Kurt Lewin Model because by adopting the same they can response to the changes
talking placed in the environment.
Question 4. Using one sentence, create a thesis statement for the article.
The aim of the study is to understand the importance of Kurt Lewin model of change management.
Question 5. Find three points made within the article supporting the thesis statement. Use less than 50
words per point.
The author has shown the importance in the Kurt lewin’s change management, in the study where he
says that to understand the resistance the force field analysis is important,
positive result can help to reinforce the change activities and people are less likely to resist it and
this model helps in understanding the behavior of the nurses and to change it for improvement by
identifying the structure.
Question 6. What are the social, historical, and personal contexts appearing in the article? Use less
than 100 words for your answer.
The historical context of this article is that traditional methods of medications were used by various
members of the healthcare sector.
The social context is that many patients of the healthcare sectors have died due to lack of modern
technological treatment.
Personal context is that without managing change and without change no businesses’ can survive and
people need to understand the steps of the Kurt Lewin model in order to implement the change.
Question 7. What is the tone taken by the researcher while discussion the topic? Use less than 50
words for your answer.
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