Instructions
Change Management Intervention Design, Part Two (Intervention Design)
Part II Proposal Paper Outline
- Intervention Design Plan (plan to design, collect, and analyze data- see below description; this will be the majority of your paper; 3-5 pages)
- Managing Change Plan (plan to mitigate resistance to change and other organizational, group, or individual challenges (internal and external forces); .5-1.5 pages)
- Conclusion (include a conclusion paragraph for your entire Proposal Paper; .5 page)
- Using your topic from the Part 1 OD project, design an effective intervention. Submit an four to five paper that describes the contingencies related to the change situation: readiness for change, capability to change, cultural context, capabilities of the change agent, and contingencies related to the target of change.
- Complete your diagnostic plan. Be sure to describe your process for designing, collecting, and analyzing data. Will you plan to design, collect, and analyze data, including:
- Surveys: what questions will you ask?
- Interviews: what questions will you ask?
- Organizational/Departmental records and reports: how is department and organizational performance measured? Where is improvement needed?
- Observation: what/who will you observe?
- Based on a minimum of two different data collection outcomes, design your intervention(s). Your intervention should include a data summary (how you will analyze the data), intervention recommendations, a timeline for implementation, and measurements (chapter 11). In your intervention recommendations, include the intervention characteristics in Chapter 11, including goal specificity, programmability, level of change target, internal support, and sponsorship.
Paper Format & Grading Rubric
Each of the two sections of the project is worth 20 points. Gather information from the textbook and outside sources. For formatting, please use APA style as follows: Times New Roman 12-point font, double line spacing and 1-inch margins. Please do not use extra spacing between paragraphs. No headings or subheadings and refrain from overuse of short paragraphs. The paper length below refers to textual content. Title pages, abstracts, long quotes, bulleted lists, charts, graphs, pictures, references sections, etc., are not considered part of your page length. These are added to enhance the paper as outlined in the rubric. Please cite all your sources with in-text citations and a references section at the end of the paper.