The Heart of Change

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“The Heart of Change” |

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Integrative Paper |

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“The Heart of Change” |

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Integrative Paper |

Eva mays lambert

MNGT 5590 OA/Organizational Behavior

July 19, 2014

Eva mays lambert

MNGT 5590 OA/Organizational Behavior

July 19, 2014

Introduction:

When companies want to make organizational changes, they understand it will not be an easy task without changing human behavior. This paper is an analysis that gives the concepts presented in the book “The Heat of Change” written by John Kotter, as well as in the text book “Organizational Behavior and Management,” written by John M. Ivancevich, Robert Konopaske, and Michael T. Matteson. Change in your organization is the toughest task a company will ever take on, but change is essential for growth. To make this effective it will require the cooperation from everyone in the organization to effectively implement change across its entire structure. Kotter gives you comparative situations on how to deal with human behavioral and how to better manage these behaviors when they are presented in the organizational. He provides real life stories of events that happened in organizational situation. In Kotter writing he shows how companies overcame obstacle when employees and management work together and became motivated because they were working towards a goal. The textbook Organizational Behavior and Management provide theories, research and organizational applications that influenced the organization. The leadership characteristics and organizational behavior can be a successful change in an organization when it embraced in the transformational theory of management. This theory would be evident in the textbook Organizational Behavior and Management about how to bring about positive change in an organization.

Discussion:

Transforming leader are idealized about the growth and the empowerment through change, they provide a moral example of working towards the benefit of the teamwork and...