What is the premise behind organizational changes viewed as “flux and transformation”? Explain when that metaphor would be appropriate and how it is applied to change?

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William Bridges (1991) theorizes that organizational change can be successful if management enforces three phases properly. Explain his three phases and the steps that management should take through an organizational transition (such as a merger or move).

What is the premise behind organizational changes viewed as “flux and transformation”? Explain when that metaphor would be appropriate and how it is applied to change?

You have an employee who is coming in late each day, or taking too long for lunch, or leaving early each day, and you have talked to this employee stating that their behavior needs to change or they may lose their job. What approach to individual change is best suited for this situation and why?

Consider a recent program change of the company’s financial system that you use every day in your job. You need to learn the new system and you have anxieties about adding this burden to your daily routine while you are learning the system. Using LEWIN’s three stages of transformative change, what should your manager do to help you move through these three stages more productively and confidently. Name the three stages while you answer this question.

What sets the generation Z people apart from the baby boomers and the Millennials?

Goleman sorts leadership styles into six categories. In order for a leader to get results, different styles are used for different circumstances. If you were overseeing a group of 20 employees in the travel office of your company and your office was implementing a new travel system which is very much different from what the employees were currently using, which style of leadership would be most appropriate to successfully implement the new system and why ?

In a team situation like a project team formed to create a report or recommendation, what is one of the key factors during the forming stage that assists in make the team a success?

You are the manager of 15 people in the marketing department of a large company. You have just been given a huge marketing assignment that will require extra work from your team. Your team is very good and you know they can do the work by the deadline. Which one of Goleman’s six leadership styles would best be suited for this situation and why?

Name three elements of an organization that are representative of their culture and briefly describe how a manufacturing plant might have these cultural elements differently than a company like Wells Fargo?

Based on the article provided in week eight, explain what is meant by adaptive change.