Reference no: EM131366563
The Case for Change at Modern Appliances
Activity Context
This assessment measures your progress in mastering the following course competencies:
• Examine evidence-based HRM best practices among organizations that demonstrate an employee-centered culture.
• Analyze methods of supporting employee-centered culture through organizational design and workforce diversity.
Activity Instruction
Use the "Employee Engagement at Modern Appliances, Inc ." case study to complete the following:
• Analyze the key internal characteristics in the systems and culture of Modern Appliances that demonstrated that a change to an employee-centered environment was necessary.
• Analyze how James Bradshaw came to understand employee engagement as a way to ensure the ongoing business effectiveness of Modern Appliances.
o What was no longer working in the old business model?
o How did globalization put pressure on the old business model?
o How would an engaged workforce address those issues?
• Analyze the internal changes implied by James Bradshaw's vision of Modern's future.
• Analyze characteristics and attributes of employee-centered cultures.
• How does the transition that Modern Appliances employed reflect best practices in employee engagement?
• Analyze the organizational systems, culture, and structures that impede an employee-centered environment.
• Identify employee resistance factors that might inhibit organizational change.
• Assess the ways that the leadership of Modern Appliances moved the organization to an employee-engaged organization.
• Support your analysis with references to the literature.
Further Instructions:
• The assignment should be 4-6 pages and must include at least two references.
• References and citations should follow APA (6th ed.) guidelines.
• Font and font size: Times Roman, 12 points.
• Your writing should be free of errors that detract from the overall message.
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