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Using the material learned in your degree program, the information in this course, and additional research, develop a comprehensive succession plan for a real organization. The organization can be based anywhere in the world. If you select an international organization, keep in mind the global and cultural factors. You may also use your current organization as the basis of the succession plan, if the organization is of sufficient size to justify a meaningful project paper. It is recommended that you seek permission for your organizational choice early in Week 1.

Assume the role of chairman of the board (or similar position) of this organization. You have recently received the resignation of the CEO (or similar position), a highly successful and charismatic leader who has held this post for the past twelve years. (The real-life company should have a current [sitting] CEO who has been in that role for at least three years, preferably longer.)

As the chairman of the board, how will you ensure that the organization continues to thrive, and not merely survive, without the current CEO?

Your task is to design a comprehensive strategy for selecting a successor and ensuring ongoing success with a new leader at the helm of the organization.

Week #Course Project—Succession Plan 1

Organizational selection, background, and situation analysis

• Identify your subject organization.
• Describe mission, culture, and leadership structure.
• Analyze current organizational challenges.
• Evaluate impact of CEO resignation.

This Week

Identify your subject organization and describe its history, background, products, services, management structure, culture, mission, and any current challenges. Include your analysis of how the organization would be affected if the current CEO were to actually resign.

Discuss one of the most important things you will take from this course. You do not have to document your sources for this question. It is an opinion question.

• Students are required to post one original response for each discussion question, as well as a response to one classmate. Original responses should not be a word for word rehashing of what is stated in the readings, but rather an integration of the concepts and additional insights, either from real world experience or additional sources.Your primary posting may end with a tag-line or a related question of your own. Between 1 a.m. on Thursday and 11 p.m. on Saturday, you should have done your secondary posting. Your secondary posting is a response to one classmate’s post. Each answer/response should be supported with research unless the question is opinion oriented. Responses to classmates should not be “I agree” or “I like the way you stated that.” These responses should again be insightful, offering an opinion or facts based on your research and experiences.

Using only circles,squares and triangles,the essential forms used in graphic design,create your own letterforms alphabet using those shapes individually or in appropriately combinations.page1 post the research and thumbnails of inspirations that you saw before sketching,and what is special about them,page2 hand drawn sketch of your design a-z,page3 the letters with color a-z done in adobe illustrator, page4 making a poster consisting of the word (typography) written in the color designed letter form large in size using adobe illustrator. this assignment must be saved and submitted as adobe acrobat PDF, & Ai file. make a nice simple background for the pages. in the attached file you will see a template from one of the students, where you can get a clearer idea of the assignment, but ignore the way the pages are organized in the template, it must be organized as mentioned above in the description.do not copy the design or color in the template.

Interview a person from a different cultural background and have them explain one of their rites or customs.

The three types of qualitative research are phenomenological, grounded theory, and ethnographic research. Compare the differences and similarities between two of the three types of qualitative studies and give an example of each.

In Chapter 18, organizational politics at Blue Woods were brought up in the discussion of challenges that the enterprise was facing. Internal politics are common at all types of organizations, however, if they may lead to business failure then something has to be done! Describe what internal politics are and why they may harm the business if not controlled. If you were the CEO of Blue Wood, how would you manage internal politics to avoid the risk of business failure?

Competency

• Analyze leadership and management roles in change management
• Evaluate different change management models.
• Examine various roles in change management.
• Analyze methods for understanding and mapping change in an organization.
• Critique strategies for removing barriers to change.
• Examine leadership’s role in executing successful change.

Delta Pacific Case Study

You serve as the change leader for Delta Pacific Company (DPC). Up until this point, the organizational culture has been one of a traditional culture as the company had a manufacturing environment.

DPC has undergone an extensive change from manufacturing to consulting, including new employee roles and responsibilities, training, and resources. However, there have been organizational barriers and employee resistances to the changes, resulting in a declining profitability.

You have decided to design a Change Leadership Strategy plan to present to the leaders of DPC to meet their goal of changing the culture from the more traditional manufacturing environment to one of a contemporary consulting environment. To complete your Leading Change Plan, please include the following:

• An APA-formatted title page.
• Breakdown of the current issues that Delta Pacific are facing.
• Analyzation of change leadership strategy to be implemented.
• Classify what type of leader mindset is needed to create a new environment.
• Compare and contrast advantages and disadvantages of two popular change models. Include at least three similarities and three differences. Choose the one that you feel best compliments your strategy .
• Explain how the change model you decided to use will ensure the most effective and efficient process of changing an organizational culture.
• Construct a leadership team.
• Explain the importance of the leader’s position within each area of the change plan.
• Include examples of what the leaders should expect during the change process.
• Continue with your plan to explain at least two specific organizational barriers and at least two specific employee resistance behaviors that are most likely to occur during an organizational culture change.
• Design strategies to combat those barriers and resistance behaviors.
• Discuss the behaviors that DPC’s leaders need to exhibit to ensure a positive and successful cultural shift for the long-term.
• Include the top mistakes leaders make during an organizational culture change and your recommendations to avoid those mistakes (module 6).

What are your thoughts and/or experiences related to one or both of the topics below?

• Why is so important in today’s healthcare environment to find allies and forge strategic alliances? How will these alliances affect your organization’s performance?

• What are strategies you can use as a healthcare leader to create strong alliances?

Students responses to the discussion prompt must be submitted as a SINGLE POST/REPLY. The post/reply should include everything that is asked in the prompt. In other words, do not submit separate posts/replies to a discussion board question, even if there are separate questions asked. Submit your response as one post/reply only. (Consider crafting your full response in a Word document, and then copy and paste into the Canvas reply.)

Discussion boards also offer opportunities to exchange ideas with classmates. Feel free to respond to your classmates’ posts.

Typically, there are discussion questions within each module. You are graded on the quality of the contributions, so very simple, one-worded responses or vague, generic responses will not receive credit. Expand on your responses, offering relevant examples and evidence where needed, and draw from both lecture and reading materials where relevant. In other cases, you may want to draw from personal experiences, but make sure you understand that personal experiences and anecdotal “evidence” are typically insufficient forms of evidence and may represent exceptions or anomalies. In other cases, draw from current events. When you mention current events, make sure you provide details. So referring to “that Wisconsin event” is not enough. Provide the background for that event. What happened and why does it matter? More importantly, what sociological issue do you see in that event?

For all discussion responses, you want to ground your responses in evidence and provide sociological insight. Remember, the responses are not merely opinions, nor are they argumentative or position essays.

GRADING – POINT ALLOTMENT:

Each assignment is worth 100 points. So if a discussion board assignment has four questions, then each question is worth 25 points, for a total of 100 points. If a discussion board assignment has two questions, then each question is worth 50 points.

Your general thoughts about the film.
What in the film surprised you the most and why?
What lessons did you glean from this film?
Why do you think people commit suicide?
Is suicide ever justified? Explain.
What recourse does a person contemplating suicide have other than death?
If you could, how would you help a person contemplating suicide?
How does this film change your perception of death and dying? NOTE: Your answer CANNOT be: “This film does not change my perception of death and dying.”
How does this film change your perception of life in general? Your answer CANNOT be: “This film does not change my perception of life.” Think beyond surface level.