Leading Change: A Managers Role in Shaping the Future Workplace

Abstract

Week 1 Brainstorming Discussion: The Role of a Manager in Leading Change BEFORE STARTING: Review the requirements located in the Brainstorming Discussions Module. Over the next eight weeks, you will be responding to the tasks your new boss Daniel Chinn has set out for you in his manager's on boarding program. Chinn is anxious to get a good idea of how you can benefit the company with your management skills. Each week you will follow the directions for the assignment and discuss them with your fellow hires so that you can develop your own best answers. This week Daniel Chinn wants to see your understanding of change in the company's workplace and how it will profit the company going forward. The New Virginia Meats, Inc.(VMI) Workplace At the end of the week, you as a new management hire will be asked to turn in a memo to the CEO of VMI (see corporate profile in week one content area) on the vision you have for the company's workplace. Brainstorming is a technique that seeks to collect a myriad of ideas about a problem in an effort to find a unique and often innovative way of handling the solution. It can also be a way of collecting information about a situation or produce feedback about a particular topic. Brainstorming works very simply with only three rules: No idea is too far fetched, all ideas are to be accepted by the group for consideration, and the ideas must focus on the topic presented for discussion not whether the idea will work or not. Obviously, many ideas will be discounted later on when constraints like budget or implementation impossibilities may block its consideration for successful implementation. However, for the purpose of this discussion focus only on suggesting ideas from the class material and research which will answer the topic under discussion. Use the following template for your memo format: Memo Format Directions: 1. By FRIDAY, complete the following: Brainstorm and provide an outline addressing the following elements: (You will be using this information to create a memo to CEO CHINN that describes how you envision the future Virginia Meats workplace for your final presentation this week) Identify elements that make a successful workplace of the future and how managing change plays a part in that success. Identify importance of managing change both for the present and future organizational efficiency and production. Identify how managing change relates to the strategic plan for the organization. Identify skills needed to fulfill the role of the manager as you see it for VMI (Be sure to take into account in this answer those used in the first questions). You must use course material to support your responses and APA in-text citations with a reference list. 2. THROUGHOUT the week, complete the following: Respond to your classmates three or more days throughout the week. Remember you are trying to develop the best answers to the questions as possible. Your classmates are doing the same so read the posts carefully looking for the best ideas being presented. Share your research with others. The goal is that by the end of the week the class will come to some consensus as to the best answers giving you the chance to submit the best ideas in the final post. You must use course material to support your responses but...