Description
Prior to beginning this assignment, carefully review Chapter 3 of the text. In addition, using the Gale Business: Insights database located in the UAGC Library, research your selected organizations. Be sure to properly cite the database as a reference for your selected organizations.
Numerous changes occurred at the CEO level during the 2020-2022 fiscal seasons. With new leadership comes change opportunities and change challenges.
From the list below, pick two of the organizations with changes in leadership and research the possible changes that accompany this transition.
CEO Change Choices: Pick two
Disney – From Chapek to Iger
Ford – From Hackett to Farley
Amazon – From Bezos to Jassy
LinkedIn – From Weiner to Roslansky
MGM Resorts – From Murren to Hornbuckle
Harley Davidson – From Levatich to Zeitz
Walgreens Boots Alliance – Wasson to Brewer
For one of your selections, you may include a major company with a CEO change that has occurred within the past 12 months. The same analysis criteria must be used for your selection.
In your paper,
Provide a brief overview of the company using the Business Insights Global Tip Sheet Final.
Provide an overview of both the exiting leader and the new leader.
Describe the challenges of the organization and the changes needed.
Assess how the changes might impact customers, employees, and investors.
Selecting from Ackerman & Anderson’s roadmap for change, Cummings and Worley’s five dimensions of leading and managing change, or Kotter’s eight step approach, what change model would you recommend for the new leadership team and why?
You may select different models for the selected organizations.
This paper should be at a minimum of seven pages of content, not including the title and reference pages. There should be one introduction and one summary for the entire paper. Each company should have a minimum of three pages of content. Support your work with the text and with at least four credible resources. One resource should be specific to the selected organization. Two additional resources should be research-oriented about the change model selected.
Use APA Style Elements as provided in the paper outline for headings to provide the reader with a clear path of content and to create an organized document.
The Change theories and leadership paper
must be at least 7 double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA Formatting for Microsoft Word resource.
must include a separate title page with the following in title case:
title of paper in bold font
Space should appear between the title and the rest of the information on the title page
student’s name
name of institution (The University of Arizona Global Campus)
course name and number
instructor’s name
due date
must utilize academic voice. Review the Academic Voice resource for additional guidance.
must include an introduction and conclusion paragraph.
Your introduction paragraph needs to end with a clear thesis statement that indicates the purpose of your paper.
For assistance on writing Introductions & Conclusions and Writing a Thesis Statement, refer to the Writing Center resources.
must use at least four scholarly resources in addition to the course text and the Gale Business: Insights database in the UAGC library.
The Scholarly, Peer-Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source.
To assist you in completing the research required for this assignment, review Quick and Easy Library Research tutorial, which introduces the University of Arizona Global Campus Library and the research process, and provides some library search tips.
must document any information used from sources in APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center’s APA: Citing Within Your Paper guide.
must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA Style as outlined in the Writing Center. See the APA: Formatting Your References List resource in the Writing Center for specifications.
