HAME 511 - Managing Change Initiatives

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Cornell University

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With emerging technologies and expanding global marketplaces, it is imperative that organizations become highly proficient in driving their change agenda. Whether diversifying, downsizing, merging, reorienting business, or developing new management structures, organizations must be able to effectively carry out change initiatives to remain productive and competitive. In this course, learners learn to assess organizational readiness and their own ability to facilitate change. Working with a comprehensive organizational change scenario, this experiential exercise provides an opportunity for learners to learn by doing and to assess their own effectiveness in facilitating change. Who Should Take This Course This course is fundamental for managers, supervisors, and team leaders in any organization who want to learn how to successfully initiate organizational or departmental change. Course Format This course contains the following modules: Managing Change Organizational change tactics and their correspondence to different stages of readiness or willingness to accept change Stages of adoption of innovation: awareness, appraisal/trial, and adoption Different reactions to organizational change and innovation on the part of innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and resistors Recognizing that creating change is part skill, part art, and part luck Cultural aspects of organizations and their impact on change efforts Frustrations managers experience in implementing change initiatives Benefits to Learner Learners who complete this course will be able to: Evaluate an organization's level of readiness and willingness to change and use techniques to bring it to an acceptable level Identify and minimize a manager's frustrations in implementing change initiatives Develop and implement an effective methodology for carrying out a successful change initiative Certificate Information This course can be applied to the following certificate: Leading Management Teams Sponsoring School Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.cornell.edu

Phone Number:

(607) 255-2000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

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Semester

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