Week 5: Change Management Perspectives

Dear Class:  This discussion thread and week's learning module, require that we each address our identification with and selection of change models which serve as a foundation of change management practice and theory. We will differentiate between implementation models versus the diagnostic models, both of which are covered this week.  Consider your current organization or an organization with which you were once affiliated. Is there a dominant change approach in your selected organization? If so, how appropriate is it? What would you need to do in order to modify or replace that dominant approach? Why? Please try and relate to one of the change models discussed in the Chapter 10 reading.

Consider your personal schema for handling and managing change. Do you work with a one-size-fits-all approach to change management? To what extent do you adapt your approach to the scale and timing of the change? To your own relative power in the situation? To what extent do you adapt your approach to other context features as identified and related to change management, processual and contingency approaches?