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BUS8600 Strategic Global Business Management - Conestoga College

Reflection Assignment

For your Reflection Assignments, you willchoose one (1) option belowand demonstrate your learning and thoughts on the topic integrating models or theories from our textbook and applications to real-life examples.. Your writing should be approximately 3-4 pages, in 12-point fontand will answer the questions listed:

OPTION A: REACTIONS TO CHANGE

Think through your experiences at school or at work with change caused by the pandemic as a recipient of change.

1. How did you respond to this change? Describe these key factors that would have influenced your response:
a. What was the change and how was it introduced? What was the rate of change?
b. What was the short-term impact on you? What has been the longer-term impact?
c. What was your initial reaction? Enthusiasm? "Wait and see" attitude? Ambivalence, due to conflicting reactions? Cynicism? Support? Resistance?
d. Did your attitudes change over time? Why or why not?

2. Can you describe any patterns to your response (has this happened before)? What might you be able to do to improve or strengthen your typical response to change?

3. When you find yourself dealing with matters of innovation and change, describe how you would typically react:
a. Do you find that you fall into the category of innovator or early adopter, readily considering and often adopting new approaches, well in advance of most people?
b. Or, are you in category of the late majority? You wait until the innovation or new approach has been tried and tested by many people before you commit to adopt.
c. Or are you a person who typically does not adopt the innovation or new approach until the vast majority of people have done so? In other words, are you a late

4. How would you recommend that your leaders communicate change to someone like you, based on your past reactions? What would get you to form a "psychological contract" with the change?

5. Using Strategies for Coping with Change in Table 7.5 on page 255, what is one (1) SMART goal for you as the recipient and one (1) SMART goal for your leader:
a. 1 goal for you as recipient to improve your coping with change?
b. 1 goal for your leader to improve their management of change?

6. Do you agree with Simon Sinek's suggestion that for cultural transformation we must focus on early adopters? Why or why not?

Attachment:- Strategic Global Business Management.rar