MANAGING ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE

1. Scenario

Acme corporation has had recent problems with increased turnover of employees and decreased profitability. However, leadership is not sure exactly what the problem is or what to do about it. Senior managers have been arguing for many months about what to do, but it is clear that leadership does not have a strategy to get the company back on track. The company (prior to organizational changes) had 24 sales associates that averaged $423,000 in combined sales each month with a profit margin of 32%. This breaks down to a monthly sales average of $17, 625 per sales associate.

Since the changeover, the employees are stretched thin and have become demoralized as management has been slow to respond to the turnover and has increased pressure to exceed monthly goals. The average monthly sales have steadily decreased for six months after the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) replaced the vice president of sales, two sales directors, and six sales managers with employees from another organization. The Vice President, directors, and managers have yet to establish relationships, are not very engaging or motivating, have more of a transactional style of leadership, and micro-manage every detail of the sales associates performance. The following table shows company sales performance since January of this year and includes month, number of staff, average sales, profit percentage and total profit.

Month    Sales Staff      Sales                  Profit  %          Profit$
January    20                  $322,800                    32%            $103,296
February    19                  $321,100                    32%            $102,752
March    18                  $318,500                    32%            $101,920
April            18                  $267,900                    32%            $85,728
May            15                  $260,500                    32%            $83,360
June            12                  $247,700                    32%            $79,264

2. Please use the scenario and the table above to answer the following questions (support each section with sources from the required and optional readings list):

Introduce your paper with your thoughts on the scenario and why it happened.
Explain which organizational change model (Kotters Eight-Step, Lewins Three-Step, or the Stages of an Action Research Project) would be most suited for this scenario supporting your decision and response with a source from the required or optional readings list.
Provide a solution to the scenario and build a plan of action for this organization using the individual steps of your chosen change model.
Use and fill in the table below with your expected forecast potential to show growth in sales staff, sales, and total profit from July through December. Use the formula below the table (New Month Sales x 32% = ______), to calculate expected sales and profit percent for an increase in profit dollars for Acme Corporation.
Provide a discussion on how your proposed change model associates with your completed monthly table below.

Table 1: Expected Sales and Profit Forecast

Month    Sales Staff    Sales    Profit %    Total Profit $
July                                            32%   
August                                    32%   
September                            32%   
October                                    32%   
November                            32%   
December                            32%   

New Monthly Sales X Profit Percentage = Total profit

Conclude your paper to align with your introduction, a summary of findings from each section, and wrap up in a final thought.

3. Case Assignments are to be prepared in Microsoft Word 12 pt font, be at least 4 pages in length (excluding title and references pages) and include 3 scholarly sources from the required or optional readings list.

The paper should include the following:

Title Page formatted per APA.

An Introduction, Body of Work, and Conclusion.

Report content should include a brief introduction to the assignment, background information about the organization being studied, and your discussion of organizational structure in terms of the concepts or theories being applied in the assignment. Use subtitles, bullets, and tables to improve presentation values.

References page (double-spaced, 12 pt. type, Times New Roman font) should be formatted par APA Style

Citation and reference style instructions are available at
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/10/.

Anson, J. H. (2011). Leaders are the critical element in the network: Applying the Kotter Change model in shaping future information systems. Army Communicator, 36(4), 20-27. Retrieved from https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a559842.pdf