HRC7711Organizational Change Theory

Week 1Dr. Jenne Meyer

HRC7711

Discuss syllabusGroundrules Introductions

Who are you? Where do you work? Experience with HR, Organizational Behavior? Expectations of this course? Your first concert or fun fact.

Organizational Change Theory Chapter 2 – Images of Managing

Change Chapter 3 – Why Organizations

Change Chapter 4 – What Changes in

Organizations Chapter 5 – Diagnosis for Change Chapter 6 – Resistance to Change Chapter 7 & 8 – Implementing

Change Chapter 9 – Linking Vision and

Change Chapter 10 & 11 – Strategies and

Skills for Communicating Change Chapter 12 – Sustaining Change

Class Discussion

Think back to a change that you have experienced, in either your personal or professional life. What made it a story? What lessons (table 1.1, p9) are present in

your story? What three key conclusions do you draw from

these stories about managing change? What key conclusions did you draw from the

vignettes in Chapter 1?

Discussion

Next weeks assignments.