Assessment 1: Critical reflection
Instructions
Overview
Length: 500 words
Weight: 10%
The orientation and Week 1 activities required you to critically reflect on the scope of change management, and planned and unplanned change. This assessment requires you to compare your experience of change with current accepted practice(s).
To prepare for this assessment task:
1. Think about your experiences of planned and unplanned change in your personal life, workplace and a broader social context.
2. Reflect on how these experiences of planned and unplanned change impacted on you, and how they shaped your beliefs and feelings about change.
3. Undertake the activities (readings, videos, discussions) in the Orientation week and Week 1 and think about how previous experiences of personal, social and organisational change can affect reactions to future change.
Your assessment submission should include a cover page. Download the Cover page template (DOCX 12 KB).
Task
To complete this assessment task, address the following issues in your 500-word critical reflection:
1. Outline a workplace situation where you believe organisational change is warranted. (100 words)
2. Provide a justification as to why you believe organisational change is needed given the workplace situation you have identified. (200 words)
3. What steps do you believe a change leader must take to minimise employee stress in implementing a planned change. (200 words)