Nov-2 Creativity as Lehre, Brainstorming Did you “Groupthink” Change know? Puzzle Amabile, myths of creativity” “Six Nov-4 Getting Buy-In HTBPL: Ch. 12 Treat Employees as Interactive Case: Preparation: from Resources Not Resistors Sabena Belgian What is Weytjen’s Employees World Airlines: situation? What does he Weytjen’s first have to draw on? How assignment, A would you advise him to delegation of chefs, handle each of the and A critical scenarios in the case? incident Come ready to role play! Nov-9 Learning HTBPL, Ch. 13, Create Opportunity Finding your way Due: During the through Crisis during change Learning Change Team Process Assignment 2 (10 am on ctools) Nov-11 Downsizing Mishra, Spreitzer & Mishra, Preserving Case: McDonnell Questions: employee morale during downsizing, Douglas (article in Why did senior the LA Times) management feel that *Students with UMids ending in odd strong action was numbers will take the perspective of necessary? What process the senior leadership at McDonnell. did they use to devise the Defend their approach. change process? Can *Students with UMids ending in even you come up with a better numbers will take the perspective of process for creating the others in the case. Make the case for change that was needed? why this change approach was problematic. Nov-16 Strategic Haudan, J. (2012) The Art of Guest Speaker: Change Engagement, McGraw-Hill. Ch. 1, 3 Robin Through Senior People Root Module V: Learning from You Nov-18 Learning Team Presentations Nov-23 Learning Team Presentations Nov-25 Preparation for the Globaltech Conduct on-line simulation interviews (you will need Break 1-1.5 for this) Nov 30 Learning Team Presentations Dec-2 Learning Team Presentations Module VII: Putting it all Together in Managing Change Dec-7 Change In class: Creation Prework: Globaltech Simulation of change plan prereadings available on (email to professor ctools: before December 9) Case, change theory All interviews must be conducted! Dec-9 Change Laptop requirement: Simulation In Please make sure you Implementation of have one laptop for your your change plan team (check technical requirements) and if it is a Mac, bring an adaptor so you can connect to a large
Nov-2 Creativity as Change Lehre, “Groupthink” Amabile, “Six myths of creativity” Brainstorming Puzzle Did you know? Nov-4 Getting Buy-In from Employees HTBPL: Ch. 12 Treat Employees as Resources Not Resistors Interactive Case: Sabena Belgian World Airlines: Weytjen’s first assignment, A delegation of chefs, and A critical incident Preparation: What is Weytjen’s situation? What does he have to draw on? How would you advise him to handle each of the scenarios in the case? Come ready to role play! Nov-9 Learning During the Change Process HTBPL, Ch. 13, Create Opportunity through Crisis Finding your way during change Due: Learning Team Assignment 2 (10 am on ctools) Nov-11 Downsizing Mishra, Spreitzer & Mishra, Preserving employee morale during downsizing, *Students with UMids ending in odd numbers will take the perspective of the senior leadership at McDonnell. Defend their approach. *Students with UMids ending in even numbers will take the perspective of others in the case. Make the case for why this change approach was problematic. Case: McDonnell Douglas (article in the LA Times) Questions: Why did senior management feel that strong action was necessary? What process did they use to devise the change process? Can you come up with a better process for creating the change that was needed? Nov-16 Strategic Change Through People Haudan, J. (2012) The Art of Engagement, McGraw-Hill. Ch. 1, 3 Guest Speaker: Robin Senior Root Module V: Learning from You Nov-18 Learning Team Presentations Nov-23 Learning Team Presentations Nov-25 Break Preparation for the Globaltech simulation Conduct on-line interviews (you will need 1-1.5 for this) Nov 30 Learning Team Presentations Dec-2 Learning Team Presentations Module VII: Putting it all Together in Managing Change Dec-7 Change Simulation In class: Creation of change plan (email to professor before December 9) Prework: Globaltech prereadings available on ctools: Case, change theory All interviews must be conducted! Dec-9 Change Simulation In Implementation of your change plan Laptop requirement: Please make sure you have one laptop for your team (check technical requirements) and if it is a Mac, bring an adaptor so you can connect to a large
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