Assignment Description: Prepare a report of a professional discussion on any one the following: An investigation into the practices of one organization undergoing radical change. A reflective report following placement in an organization managing radical change. Compare radical change processes in a range of organizations followed by an individual report of learning A report justifying to an organization on a particular plan for radical change. A report on the environment of radical change in an organization. Your report should: Explore the background to change affecting the current organization Develop systems for understanding and involving others in the process of change Plan to implement models for insuring ongoing change Factor are responsible for change: Bureaucracy, hierarchy, mechanism versus organic, scientific management, human relations school, fordism, knowledge age, environmental turbulence, planed and emergent change, organizational life cycle and development, strategy-structure filt, formal versus informal organization System used to understand process change: stockholder analysis, system modeling, systems and subsystems, input-transformation-output modeling, multiple cause diagrams, divergence and convergence, functional and dysfunctional structures, cultural web, images of organizations, team development, inflencing skills, awareness raising, commitment development. Number of Words: 3,000 words