For the second paper, students are required to write about leadership effectiveness and change within broader social and political arenas. Reading materials from Chapters 5-8 of the text-Hickman, G.R. (2010). Leading Change in Multiple Contexts. Los Angeles, CA: Sage Publications. Be sure to engage issues of community, political, and social change in your analysis of change in organizations. Knowledge of non-profits and other types of organizations that function outside the government and profit sections always make for interesting case studies.
Questions to help generate ideas include:
· How do we know when change is working well?
· What kinds of barriers exist across organizations?
· What sorts of measurements might indicate that how well change initiatives are working.