Examine factors that may require your organisation to change, and identify a change required in the workplace that will benefit the organisation

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Unit: Planning change in the workplace

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Examine factors that may require your organisation to change, and identify a change required in the workplace that will benefit the organisation. If you are not currently working within an organisation, then you may complete this task in relation to an organisation with which you are familiar. This could include experience working in a voluntary capacity.

You should discuss the choice of topic and an outline of your submission with your line manager and/or your tutor.  The choice of topic must allow you to demonstrate achievement of assessment criteria from the unit studied. It should not be a very large or complex topic, but it must offer scope for planning change

– perhaps it is a change in working methods, customer service or working relationships.

NOTE: Unit: Planning change in the workplace

You should plan to spend approximately 10 hours researching your workplace context, preparing for and writing or presenting the outcomes of this assignment for assessment. The `nominal` word count for this assignment is 1000 words: the suggested range is between 800 and 1500 words.

Check your assignment carefully prior to submission using the assessment criteria.

Please use the sub-headings shown below when structuring your Assignment

Assessment Criteria

Identify the forces for change in an organisation

Identify factors that may require the organisation to change.

• Identify the forces that may require own organisation to change by conducting a simple PESTLE or SWOT analysis (20 marks)

Planning the change

Based on these factors identify a change required in the workplace and explain the potential benefits of this change to the organisation.

• Give an example of change required in the workplace reflecting the SWOT or PESTLE analysis (28 marks)

Implications of the change

Explain the possible financial effects of the change on the organisation.

Explain the possible effects on people in the organisation.

• Identify relevant human and financial factors in the consideration of planning change within the context of the example given (20 marks)

Communicating and implementing the change

Describe who needs to know about the change, describe how you will communicate with them and explain why it is important to communicate the change to them.

Prepare an action plan for implementing the change.

• Explain how to communicate with and involve people to facilitate effective change (16 marks)
• Use a technique for planning change within the given context (16 marks)

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