"That Was Great!": Even More High Impact Activities, Exercises And Approaches For Teaching Or Consulting On Organizational Change
A two-hour interactive <st1:placetype w:st="on">Academy</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">Management Annual</st1:placename> meeting PDW workshop in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Philadelphia</st1:city></st1:place> Sunday, 5 August 8:00 - 10:30PM at Loews, Howe, 33rd Floor.
This workshop follows on from highly successful and well-attended sessions in <st1:city w:st="on">Honolulu</st1:city> (AOM 2005) and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Atlanta</st1:city></st1:place> (AOM 2006). The session will provide a forum for educators, researchers and consultants to showcase high impact methods for teaching organizational change in its many contexts (undergraduate, EMBA, MBA, corporate training, consulting, etc.). The workshop covers high impact classic exercises that still receive very positive responses in change programs, as well as newer approaches which provide novel activities, exercises or methodologies to the teaching of organizational change. Two key features underpin this workshop:
1. The workshop has a "hands-on" approach where participants get to experience, in part, the actual exercise or activity being undertaken.
2. The teaching philosophy underpinning the workshop is a "multiple perspectives" approach which assumes that a variety of approaches, assumptions and methodologies may be employed to explore the many areas associated with organizational change.
Each of the following presenters will introduce their exercise, provide the audience with a short, hands-on sampling of it and the method for debriefing it. Each presenter will provide more detailed notes for the audience to take away on the exercise and how to run it.
1. Ian Palmer (University of Technology, Sydney), Richard Dunford (Macquarie University) and Peter McGraw (Macquarie University) will present the exercise entitled "Blindfold Squares" which highlights a range of issues that link organizational change to change leadership, communication processes, vision, resource allocation and reactions to change.
2. Susan Adams and Tony Buono (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Bentley</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">College</st1:placetype></st1:place>) will present an exercise involving a card game that provides participants with the opportunity to explore how they react to change, especially when new norms are not fully understood.
3. Tracy Thompson (U. Washington, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Tacoma</st1:city></st1:place>) will present a multimedia change management simulation which challenges students to experience and apply change management theory to a fictional high technology organization. Participants in this session will have a chance to briefly experience playing the simulation, with a focus on how to use and debrief the simulation.
4. Mike Manning (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">New Mexico</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>) will present the "Mads, Glads, and Sads" exercise which creates a common database on a particular organizational process (communication, planning, teamwork, resource allocation, quality, leadership, etc.).
5. Suzanne Geigle (IBM Corporation) will present "Managing Organizational Change – Testing Your Assumptions", an exercise designed to reveal both individual and group-level assumptions about managing change.
6. Gavin Schwarz (<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype> of <st1:placename w:st="on">New South Wales</st1:placename></st1:place>) will lead all presenters in a discussion of outcomes for organizational change teaching and consulting.
There is no pre-registration required to attend the session.
For information on the session contact Gavin Schwarz (g.schwarz@unsw.edu.au), Ian Palmer (i.palmer@uts.edu.au), or Richard Dunford (Richard.Dunford@mgsm.edu.au).