MGT 616: Final Project Worksheet: Organizational Change Analysis

This assignment is a final project worksheet for the MGT 616 course, focusing on organizational change and development within management systems. The worksheet guides learners through an analysis of three journal articles: Buonocore (2004), Sutherland (2013), and Burnes (2004), each offering insights into Lewin's Change Management Theory. The assignment requires students to break down the articles into their components, compare and contrast the perspectives of the authors, and address a specific writing prompt. The analysis involves answering questions about each article, including the purpose, subject, thesis statement, supporting points, context, and tone. Students also need to create annotated references for each article, summarizing their content and utility. The overall goal is to develop analytical skills and apply them to understand how different viewpoints shape the understanding of Lewin's theory in the context of organizational change.

Final Project Worksheet:
Organizational Change and
Development
in Management Systems
MGT
616

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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A formal tone has been used by the author in the article because the article is related to the medical
field. The author has used various facts that prove his focus of study.
Question 8. How did the researcher develop the article’s flow? Use less than 50 words for your answer.
The author has developed the articles flow in the form of- discussion on the barriers of the company,
the change theory has been discussed by the author, then diagnosing of the problem, overcoming
resistance and developing solutions.
Writing Activity. An annotated reference is the composition of a reference followed by approximately
100-250 words describing the reference. The purpose of the annotation is to serve as a reminder of the
content, nature, and utility of an article.
Here is an example annotated reference
Waite, L. J., & Witsberger, F. K. (1986). Nonfamily living and the erosion of traditional family
orientations among young adults. American Sociological Review, 51(4), 541-554.
The authors, researchers at the Rand Corporation and Brown University, use data from the
National Longitudinal Surveys of Young Women and Young Men to test their hypothesis that
nonfamily living by young adults alters their attitudes, values, plans, and expectations, moving
them away from their belief in traditional sex roles. They find their hypothesis strongly
supported in young females while the effects were fewer in studies of young males. Increasing
the time away from parents before marrying increased individualism, self-sufficiency, and
changes in attitudes about families. In contrast, an earlier study by Williams cited below shows
no significant gender differences in sex role attitudes as a result of nonfamily living.
Using the responses for Questions 1-8, provide an annotated reference for the article:
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Changes in the care methods of the health care field, new technologies and new therapies are
continuously being developed on a daily basis. The main responsibility to adapt to these changes in the
health care by developing the necessary skills to identify the changes and properly evaluate the same,
depends upon nursing leaders or the APNs. By properly analyzing the systems of the organization in
which the APN is working will help him in implementing various change strategies effectively through
selection of various plans. The main objective of this study is to focus on the role of the APN’s in
carrying out changes effectively and the steps that are taken by them in order to carry out the changes.
The APN’s can actually act as a change agent for adapting to the changes according to the changes in
the environment of the health care industry.
Second 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 objective of the article is to reduce the resistances of the nurses to adapting to new barcode
medication through the use of the Kurt Lewin Model.
Question 3. What is the subject, or topic, of the article? Use less than 50 words for your answer.
The main subject of the article deals with defining how the Kurt lewin model can help to carry out the
change and manage the change in the organization/ or any other fields.
Question 4. Using one sentence, create a thesis statement for the article.
Managing change using Kurt lewin model adapting to barcode medication in the healthcare field
Question 5. Find three points made within the article supporting the thesis statement. Use less than 50
words per point.
It was seen that the mortality rates due to error of medication was highest in the US
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Bar code medications lessen the chances of errors
In order to manage the nurses resistance to change the Kurt Lewin model needs to be used.
Question 6. What are the social, historical, and personal contexts appearing in the article? Use less
than 100 words for your answer.
The social contexts are that most of the patients are dying due to lack of proper treatment and these
patients could be saved with the help of the modern techniques.
Historical context involves the emotional, social and psychological acceptance of traditional models by
nurses while carrying out operations
Personal context is the explanation of how the nurses can become adaptable to the modern
technique’s using the kurt lewin model
Question 7. What is the tone taken by the researcher while discussion the topic? Use less than 50
words for your answer.
Since the article is talking about a profession so a formal tone is used in the article and not a
conversational style.
Question 8. How did the researcher develop the article’s flow? Use less than 50 words for your answer.
The article is majorly divided into the importance of bar coding, change management, understanding
the Kurt Lewins model of change management, application of the change management model and a
conclusion.
Writing Activity. Using the responses for Questions 1-8, provide an annotated reference for the article:
In this study, the author discusses about the changes that are being brought into the healthcare
segment and problems that the nurses are facing due to technological advancements and devices that
are computer assisted. Nurses face a problems with adapting these techniques because they have been
carrying out the their activities using the traditional methods and now they are facing many problems
regarding application of these modern technique’s. Therefore the main purpose of this study is to
make use of the Kurt Lewin model for carrying out the barcode medications technique’s in the
psychiatric facility without much resistance from the nurses. The study has discussed about how the
nurses can be engaged in this task of the BCMA by involving them in the implementation and the
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planning process as these will help in creating a sense of autonomy of the project and will help to
achieve the goals. A brainstorming activity can be carried out in the first round of solving the change
management issues such that the main problem faced by the nurses can be identified and the second
step is to improve the efficiency in operations by addressing these problems. The author has also
focused on using the Kurt Lewin model to reduce the resistance by various people through creation of
a proper plan and engaging people into it through active participation.
Third Article
Question 1. What is the APA formatted reference for the article?
APA formatted used in this article is APA 6th
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 re-examine the model of Kurt Lewin and argue the validation of
the negative comments against the model.
Question 3. What is the subject, or topic, of the article? Use less than 50 words for your answer.
The main theme that is used in the article supports the facts that despite receiving all the criticism, the
Kurt Lewin model is applicable in the contemporary world.
Question 4. Using one sentence, create a thesis statement for the article.
Kurt Lewin model is applicable to the present world irrespective of the criticism received.
Question 5. Find three points made within the article supporting the thesis statement. Use less than 50
words per point.
There are various criticism related to the model such as it is too simplistic or it assumes that the state
of the organization is stable
The modern literature is of the view that the Kurt lewin model is still the best model for carrying out
change
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The nature of the work helps to carry out a re-examination of the change model
Question 6. What are the social, historical, and personal contexts appearing in the article? Use less
than 100 words for your answer.
The social context of the article is that the theory is applicable and used in most of the present
organizations for carrying out change
The historical perspective is that various others researches has been carried out for analyzing the
effectiveness of the Kurt Lewin model
The personal context includes the importance of the using Kurt Lewin model in order to manage
changes
Question 7. What is the tone taken by the researcher while discussion the topic? Use less than 50
words for your answer.
A formal tone is used for the paper since the study discusses about healthcare profession
Question 8. How did the researcher develop the article’s flow? Use less than 50 words for your answer.
The article is divided into three main parts such as the background, the main parts of Kurt Lewins
theory and a concluding statements
Writing Activity. Using the responses for Questions 1-8, provide an annotated reference for the article:
Kurt lewin’s theory has been followed in many organization over the last forty years for addressing
issues related to change and management of change. However in the last 20 years his theory and
models have been criticized for various reasons like some critiques said that his models are mechanistic
and simple as compared to the world that is dynamics. Among the criticism the major critic had been
got the three step model of Kurt lewin. Some of the major criticisms related to his work is that he
assumes the existence of organizations in a stable state. His methods were management driven and
followed the top-down style of management decisions and his theories and models neglected the
power and politics of the organization. Through this study, the author tries to re-examine the work of
Kurt lewin and challenges the current views of criticisms against the company. The article is divided
into three main parts – a background about the Kurt Lewin theory, the second part is related to deep
analysis of his actions research, group’s dynamics, three step model and the action research model.
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The third part involves the conclusion that argues that though his theory and models have been
criticized still they have applicability in the present generation. The main purpose of the article is to re-
examine the work of Kurt lewin irrespective of the criticism and to challenge the views and arguments
against Kurt lewin’s theory and models
UNITS THREE AND FOUR ASSIGNMENT
The assignment is to analyze three selected peer-reviewed journal articles.
The Analysis Prompt
Dobbs (1996), Taylor and Pierce (1999) and Bommer et al. (2005) provided broad perspectives
regarding mechanisms influencing attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs within an organization. Further,
when taken in unison, the three articles also offer insight into the operationalization and analysis of
attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs operating within an organization. Your goal is to analyze, differentiate,
and compare the components (or themes) shaping the three articles as to gain an appreciation of a few
dimensions of behavioral changes within an organization.
The articles are:
 Dobbs, M. (1996). Managing diversity: lessons from the private sector. Retrieved from
https://goo.gl/rypNQt
 Taylor, P., & Pierce, J. (1999) Effects of Introducing A Performance Management System on
Employees' Subsequent Attitudes and Effort. Retrieved from https://goo.gl/DDXiQE
 Feng, C., Huang, X., & Zhang, L. (2016). A multilevel study of transformational leadership, dual
organizational change and innovative behavior in groups. Journal of Organizational Change
Management, 29(6), 855-877. Retrieved from Proquest. OR you may choose
 Hechanova, R. M., & Cementina-olpoc, R. (2013). Transformational leadership, change
management, and commitment to change: A comparison of academic and business
organizations. The Asia - Pacific Education Researcher, 22(1), 11-19.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40299-012-0019-z
First Article
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