How do we know when change is working well?

Mini Analysis 2: Analysis of Community, Political and Social Change (150pts.)

For the second paper, students are required to write about leadership effectiveness and change within broader social and political arenas. Reading materials from Chapters 5-8 of the text-Hickman, G.R. (2010). Leading Change in Multiple Contexts. Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications. Be sure to engage issues of community, political, and social change in your analysis of change in organizations. Knowledge of non-profits and other types of organizations that function outside the government and profit sections always make for interesting case studies.

Questions to help generate ideas include:

How do we know when change is working well?
What kinds of barriers exist across organizations?
What sorts of measurements might indicate that how well change initiatives are working.

Instructions:

Please choose 3-4 concepts to focus on for your mini-analysis. These concepts can come from anywhere within Parts III and Part IV of the text. (CH.5-8)
Introduce and explain the concepts, at minimum bring in at least 1 other scholarly/academic reference or citation per concept that you have introduced.
Link the concepts to current or past events for further analysis (As one example of how a student might use material from the readings, consider the discussion of community leadership. A student might take concepts of change and empowerment (visible, hidden, invisible, and power over, to, with, and within) as a conceptual structure for analyzing leadership effectiveness within an organization.
Make sure to include a reference page and reference the text. Again, you will want to bring in external citations and references to strengthen your paper.
Paper will generally be 4 PAGES (Title page and reference page are not included in this count).
You must reference your textbook and bring in at least 3 additional citation/references for this paper.

***Please do NOT use materials from John Kotter’s leadership books. I want students to write papers that integrate key ideas from our text. Google Scholar is an excellent resource for scholarly work.