Change Management Initiative [CLOs: 1, 2]
Before you begin the assignment, read the Inside Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s radical management experiment that prompted 14% of employees to quit (Links to an external site.) article.
For this interactive assignment, you are to take on the role of an internal consultant that has been tasked with transitioning a large, traditionally multi-tier organization into a holacracy. Your role as an internal consultant is to create a 7- to 10-slide PowerPoint presentation for the executive board that addresses the following elements of the change initiative.
A description of holacracy.
Justify the need for change from the current management model to holacracy.
Use Kotter’s eight-step change leadership model to explain how you would implement holacracy.
Describe the proposed change using each of Kotter’s eight steps of change leadership:
Establishing a sense of urgency
Creating a guiding coalition
Developing a vision and strategy
Communicating the change vision
Empowering broad-based action
Generating short-term wins
Consolidating gains and producing more change
Anchoring new approaches in the culture
Explain some of the anticipated problems that may occur and recommend possible solutions.
A references slide with a minimum of two scholarly and/or credible sources.
Attach the PowerPoint presentation to your initial post. Create an email to the executive board that addresses the purpose of your change management initiative. Provide a detailed explanation of why holacracy is a better fit for the organization.
Your initial post should be a minimum of 250 words.