Guidelines on Writing the Week 4 Signature Assignment Paper
MGT 141 C1 Spring B 2026 Organizational Leadership
Paper Due Date: Sunday, February 8 midnight
Guidelines and Strategies:
The student is to read the Kotter articles,
Leading Change: Why Transforming Efforts Fail
by John P. Kotter and the HBR Press chapter entitled,
Choosing Strategies for Change
by
John P. Kotter and Leonard A. Schlesinger.
For Week 4 the student is to use the case study described by the student in the Week 4
Organizational Leadership Discussion Forum. Here are the steps that must be followed
for this Week 4 Signature Assignment.
1. The student is to describe in detail the case study identified by the student in the
Week 4 Organizational Leadership Discussion Forum. The more details the student
can include the better.
2. The student must then take Kotters
Eight Steps to Transforming Your Organization
and apply the 8 stages of Kotters model to the specific case the student described.
3. Each of the 8 stages must be applied to the case. The student must describe how
applying each specific stage in Kotters model would have impacted the change
process and the eventual outcome of the change. Be specific and provide support
from Kotters article.
4. This paper should be a clear summary of the week 4 reading in Kouzes and Posner as
well as the Kotter articles. This paper should explore, discuss, and strategize about
how to understand organizational change, how to manage the change process, and
the conditions that must be addressed if this particular change process is to move
forward successfully.
NOTE:
Students are asked to submit their paper to a senior leader/manager for review and
written feedback. The feedback should be focused on the students strategy and
approach.
This written feedback should appear in the form of an Appendix at the end
of their paper. If this feedback is not included in the paper, points will be deducted
from the paper. The student must also include the contact information of the person
providing the review so the instructor can follow up with the leader as needed.
Structure and Style:
Students must use their own experiences and lessons learned from the case in addition
to drawing significant ideas and concepts from both papers as well as Kouzes and
Sunday, February 1, 2026
Posner. All ideas and concepts borrowed from the articles must be cited correctly.
Papers are to have a cover page, references page, and between 3.5 to 4.5 pages of
written narrative (this page total does not include the cover page and references page).
As noted above, all papers should include an Appendix that contains the written
feedback of the leader/manager who has provided commentary/feedback on the
students paper. This feedback is not included the page total.
Requirements: 4 PAGES
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