Since the health care
environment is constantly changing and transforming, the ability to manage and
adapt to change is essential in health care organizations. Change, whether
prompted internally or externally or perceived positively or negatively, can be
unsettling, making it crucial that health care administrators understand the
change process. From implementation planning to effectively communicating with
employees and managing conflicts, administrators must be prepared to manage
change within their organizations. For this Assignment, you examine an
organization undergoing change and develop a change management proposal.
To
prepare for this Assignment:
·
Review this week’s Learning
Resources.
·
Locate and select an
organization where change is currently taking place (or is scheduled to take
place).
·
Analyze the organization to
develop a change management proposal.
The
Assignment
In a 7- to 10-page proposal,
address the following:
·
Describe the specific
organization including size, mission, and location. Describe the change that is
taking place (or is scheduled to take place) in the organization.
·
Analyze what is driving the
change to take place.
·
Given the parameters of the
change, summarize the resistance or conflict you might expect and why.
·
Evaluate change management
theories and models and select one to apply to the change occurring in the
organization. Support why you selected this theory or model.
·
Apply systems thinking to
address the impact of the change throughout the organization.
·
Recommend strategies and innovations
that could be implemented to effect the organizational change and provide
rationale for the recommendations.
·
Explain the role that
communication will play in your plan. Analyze how communication could be used
to handle concerns and doubts of stakeholders.
·
Recommend strategies you will
use to motivate stakeholders and prepare them to accept, embrace, and sustain
the change. Categorize key groups that you anticipate will require targeted
motivation strategies.
·
Recommend training and support
required for the successful implementation of the organizational change.
·
Recommend strategies for
sustaining an organizational change.
·
Explain how stakeholders are
involved in and held accountable for the organizational change.
·
Recommend ways to measure the
success of the organizational change and when transformational change has
occurred.
Note:The change management proposal should be 7–10
pages, not including the title and reference pages. Include graphs or charts
and a 1-page executive summary. Your Assignment must be written in standard
edited English. Be sure to support your work with specific citations from this
week’s Learning Resources and at least three additional scholarly sources.
Refer to the Essential Guide to APA Style for Walden Studentsto ensure that your in-text citations and reference
list are correct. See the rubric for additional requirements related to
research and scholarly writing.
