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Public Sector Management Course, Flinders
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: LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE
Assignment: DESIGN YOUR
OWN TEAM
Question:
Design your ideal team & critically discuss skills
and personal characteristics you might consider suitable
for organisational change task force.
Abstract:
This paper looks
at the approach taken by the Ministry of the Premier
and Cabinet to achieve a functional review and organisational
restructuring exercise (Codd, 1997), which resulted
in some critical downsizing and some innovative internal
implementation teams to lead the organisation through
the change process. It concentrates on the development
of the Strategic Employment Branch, which came out of
the restructure of the Ministry.
References:
Belbin, R.
M., 1981, Management Teams: Why they succeed or
fail, Oxford : Heinemann.
Bennis, W.
and Nanus, B. 1985, Leaders: The Strategies for
taking charge, New York: Harper & Row.
Codd, M. H.
1997, Functional Review of the Ministry of the
Premier and Cabinet. An Internal Report for the
Ministry of the Premier & Cabinet, Perth.
Caudron, S.
1993, "Are Self Directed Teams Right for your
Company?", Personnel Journal, Vol.72,
No.12, pp 76-84.
Kotter, J.
P. 1995, "Leading Change: Why Transformation
Efforts Fail", Harvard Business Review,
March/April 1995, pp 59-67.
McGregor, D.
1960, The Human Side of Enterprise, New York:
McGraw-Hill.
Quinn, R. E.
1988, Beyond Rational Management, San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass Inc.
Salem, M. &
Lazarus, H. 1992. "Developing Self Managing Teams:
Structure and Performance", Journal of Management
Development, Vol.11, no.3. pp 24-31.
Stewart, J.
1996, "Public Management 1995 : The Year that
was", Australian Journal of Public Administration,
55 (1), 118-126
The Change
Process, from Internet http://www.maknaus.com/freeinfo.htm,
1999
Tuckman (1965)
Turner, D &
Crawford, M. 1998, Change power : Capabilities
that drive corporate renewal, NSW: Business &
Professional Publishing.
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STREAM
: LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE
Assignment: EVALUATE
STRATEGIES FOR OVERCOMING RESISTANCE TO CHANGE
Question:
Critically compare and contrast concepts and theories
of leadership and/or change management as they might
be applied in dealing with resistance to change in the
current situation facing you as a middle manager in
your organisation.
Abstract:
This paper reviews
the concepts and theories around leadership and organisational
change and then examines as a case study the approach
taken by the Ministry of the Premier and Cabinet to
achieve a major change facing the WA Public Sector currently.
Implementing a process of devolution of redeployment
case management. This was a direct result of a functional
review and organisational restructuring exercise (Codd,
1997), which refocused the direction of the Ministry
and some critical downsizing internally. Redeployment
is yet another one of the human resource issues that
is being devolved back to Public Sector Agencies, similar
to functions like position classifications, and staff
recruitment, which were previously centralised.
References:
Bennis, W.
and Nanus, B. 1985, Leaders: The Strategies for
taking charge, New York: Harper & Row.
Callahan, R.
E, Fleenor, C. P, & Knudson, H. R. 1986, Understanding
Organisational Behaviour, Ohio: CE Meril Publishing
Co.
Codd, M. H.
1997, Functional Review of the Ministry of the
Premier and Cabinet. An Internal Report for the
Ministry of the Premier & Cabinet, Perth.
Dunphy, D.
1981, Organisational Change by Choice, Sydney:
McGraw-Hill
Dunphy, D.
and Stace, D. 1990, Under New Management: Australian
Organisations in Transition, Sydney: McGraw-Hill
Goleman, D.
1998, "What makes a leader?", Harvard
Business Review, Nov-Dec, pp 93-102
Kotter, J.
P. 1990, A Force for Change : How leadership differs
from management, New York: Free Press
Kotter, J.
P. 1995, "Leading Change: Why Transformation
Efforts Fail", Harvard Business Review,
March/April 1995, 59-67.
McGregor, D.
1960, The Human Side of Enterprise, New York:
McGraw-Hill.
Quinn, R. E.
1988, Beyond Rational Management, San Francisco:
Jossey-Bass Inc.
Spiker, B.
K & Lesser, E. 1995, "Change Management :
We have met the enemy", Journal of Business Strategy,
16(2), 17-21
The Change
Process, from Internet http://www.maknaus.com/freeinfo.htm,
1999
Toffler, A.
1970, Future Shock, New York: Random House
Turner, D & Crawford,
M. 1998, Change power : Capabilities that drive
corporate renewal, NSW: Business & Professional
Publishing.
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