Module+VI

Chapter 8. Action Learning and Action Science Chapter 9. Toward a Theory of Positive Organizational Change (Appreciative Inquiry) Chapter 10. Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail Chapter 22. Reframing Change: Training, Realigning, Negotiating, Grieving and Moving On
 * Module VI: **** Understanding the Basics for Effective Change StrategiesReading: **

Study questions and for discussion:

1. Each of the readings provides a somewhat different model and approach to planned change:
 * action science,
 * appreciative inquiry
 * an eight-step sequential model
 * a four-frame approach.

What are the central components of each of the four models? What values and beliefs about people, organizations, and change management underlie each? How are these models different? Where are they complementary?

2. From your perspective, which of the models is easiest to understand? Which contains ideas that you powerfully resonate with? Which set of ideas seems most foreign?

3. Explain how these approaches will change your approach to your case company.

Read **// Boosting Strategy with an Online Community //** page 6 in the following link []

Written answers are due on the wiki before 12 midnight, the Monday before class.