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Note: Many of the web site can be reached from the class web site or
typed directly into your web browser. This table exists as an
interactive web page and can be found on the class web site at
http://draweiner.tripod.com.
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#1
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Introduction
Review Web Resources
Essay on Change
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Distribution of Field
Work Forms
Distribution
of Field Work Reflective Journal Format and Requriements
Discussion
of Course Requirements
Essay on Change (Due
session #4)
- Instructions
- Use six readings to write the essay, and cite each
reference used.
- Review how to use Proquest, Ebsco and Wilson
Online Databases available from MCNY Library. (In Library Session)
- Review APA Style Manual, available on the course
web Resources Page (https://draweiner.tripod.com/hs8ca_resources.html)
- Your essay will be written in a research
format.
- Readings should be current, unless it is a classic
and based on organizational or policy changes NOT behavioral changes
(counseling)
- Do not use Websters dictionary to define any
terms.
- To carry out this assignment:
- Write a five page essay on change, include
several definition on change. Describe planned and unplanned
change, and the consequences of each, both their negative and positive
impact on an organization. Give an example of both from your
organization.
- Describe the role and function of a change Agent.
Describe your experience as a change agent.
- Conclusion: What did you learn about change and
what your responsibilities are as a change agent? ( A
reflective question.)
Compute Lab Time to
Review Web Resources.
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#2
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Assessing
the need/problem
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Complete
Online Student
Contact Form (Due session #2)
Assess the need/problem, and target group(citizen)
for your Constructive Action
- Discuss your assumptions about the problems and
needs in reference to your target group. In your discussion include how
long has this problem has existed and why it has not been resolved.
- Discuss who has been affected by this
problem.
- Give the characteristics of your group, such as
gender, ethnicity, age, level of education, employed or unemployed, or
any disabilities, etc.
- What did you learn about the affect of the problem
on your target group? (A reflective question.)
- Use tables, charts, or bar graphs to report your
groups characteristics and then describe or explain the results in
writing.
- Develop a survey to collect data on the clients and
to identify needs/problems.
Class Time to Develop an
Outline for Needs Assessments
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#3
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Agency
Analysis
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Submit Copy of
Potential Survey Instrument.
Sign on to
Google Groups and
Post Introduction (#3)
Write
a half page to introduce your Constructive Action which
will be posted on the Google Discussion Board.
Knowledge of the
organization and necessary resources needed for the Constructive Action
- Analyze your organizations technology based
on
its weaknesses and strengths.
- To carry out this assignment:
- Secure a copy of your organizations most
recent
annual report and organizational chart.
- Name, location and type of organization
- State your organizations mission, goals, and
services.
- Analyze your organization through its
- structural technology (defined as an
organizations procedures, methodologies and process)
- physical technology (devices or machines).
- In your analysis include the appropriateness of
staffing, space, if goals and mission are being met, and attitude
towards staff and its cliental.
- What did you learn about your organization?
(Reflective question)
Film on Organizational
Change
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#4
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Choosing
the Best Goal
Logic Models
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Submit
Essay on Change
Submit Reflective Journal
Read
chapters #1 & #2:
Review the SPSS White paper
available on the course web site: The Hows and Whys of Survey Research
Read on the Web:
The Socioeconomic Resource
Statement
Description
of the problem and need with input from your supervisor, co-workers,
and results from your survey.
- To carry out the assignment:
- Develop a Pre-Plan of Action on how
you are going to get input on the problem/ need, and to have your
Constructive Action and survey approved.
- Set up a conference with your supervisor
for further input on the problems/needs of your target group.
- Talk to co-workers
- Develop a 20 question survey concerning
the problems/
needs.
- Use Excel or SPSS to analyze the results
of your survey.
- You are going to use descriptive
statistics, charts, graphs and a frequency table to report your
findings.
- You will write up your finding in a
research format. An example will be handed out in class.
- After analyzing the problem/need carry
out the following:
- State if the problem/need is a social
structural, status or role change, or an organizational
structural change.
- Social structural change suggests
alterations in the patterns of relations that exist among people
involved in a given
situation.
- Status change reflects modification in
position - collection of rights and duties.
- Role change is the behavioral dimension
or the dynamic aspect of a status.
- Organizational change addresses
modifications in policies, produces, programs, space,
etc.
- Discuss how the resolution of this
problem will be beneficial to your organization,
citizens, etc.
- Develop a logic model that relates
identified problems and expected short term and long-term goals.
Time in Class to Begin to
Develop Logic Model
At
this point the problem/need for your Constructive Action
should
be finalized between you and your supervisor.
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#5
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Literature
Review
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Submit
Assessment of Need/Problem of Target Group
Come
to class #5 with a list of Keywords that you will use to organize your
literature search.
- Literature Review (Researching the
Problem and Need)
- Your literature review must be based on
the problem/need ONLY that you have chosen for your Constructive Action.
- To carry out this assignment:
- You must use no less than 10 up to date
references , and your literature should come from professional
and general interest journals, local reports or studies on the
topic, governmental resources, and data from other
organizations that have implemented a plan similar to your
propose plan.
- You must use a research format to write
up your literature review.
- Use relevant readings as well as
your own assumptions
- The literature review must use proper APA
Style (online manual can be found at http://draweiner.tripod.com)
- Outline for writing up your literature
review:
- Introduce the problem/need you have
chosen to work on for your Constructive Action.
- Discuss the problems in general and then
move to the specific problem/need that you are going to work on.
- Define the problem/need according to each
author.
- Discuss why, according to each author,
this problem exist in organizations and state why does it exist
in your organization.
- What were the recommendations made by
each author<>
- You should organize your literature
review according to themes or topics as you develop a logic for
implementing your CA.
- In concluding your literature review you
should:
- Indicate solutions tried by your
organization and how their success or failure can be understood in
terms of the literature your reviewed.
- What recommendations are you going to
incorporate into your Constructive Action based on this literature.
- Draw conclusions from your research,
meaning what did you learn?
Computer
Lab Time to Begin Literature Review: Review Proquest, Ebsco, &
Wilson Web
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#6
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Agreeing
on a Plan (Develop the Plan of Action)
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Submit
Agency Analysis
Review the Web Site: Force Field Analysis - Understanding The Pressures
For and Against Change
http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_06.htm
Developing a Plan of
Action
The plan of action must be on one page. Print out on landscape:
(download Ms Word Temjplate from Web Site)
- Target group:
- Problem Statement:
- Need Statement:
- Goal Statement:
Plan of Action
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Objective
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Time
Frame
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Strategy
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Rationale
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Evaluation
Measure
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Expected
Outcome
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Values
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- Objectives must be in dimensional statements and two
strategies for each objective.
- Objectives should be observable and measurable.
- Rationale for the Plan of Action
- Analyze the rationale through the dimensions
- Goal (Purpose): Rationale for setting up
this Plan of Action ( proposed
alternative).
- Values: State fully why this change is important
to your organization and your target group.
- Self and Others: Describe the relationship that
this change may bring about between organization and target
group.
- Systems: How will this propose recourse help
your organization to deliver their services to this target group,
you have pointed out, more effectively?
- Skills: Identify what your target group
will gain from this change that will enhance its skills, and improve
its emotionally, educationally, physically, social and economic
status.
- Constraints and Resources
- Analysis of Constraints and Resources (factors
that could help address the problem/need or that may limit your impact
on the problem).
- Give examples such as, financial, manpower
resources, community support, legislative concerns, support
of key people, existing programs related to the problem, or attitudes
among co-workers and/or target groups
Time in Class to Work on Plan of Action and
Force-Field Analysis
At this point the action plan for your Constructive Action should be finalized
between you and your supervisor.
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#7
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Implementation (Carrying
out the
Plan)
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Submit
Copy of
Potential Survey Instrument.
Submit
Preliminary List of materials for Literature Review
Sumbit Copy
of Logic Model
Read
articles available in Proquest in the MCNY Library:
Zimmerman,
J. (2004). Leading organizational change is like climbing a mountain. The Educational Forum,
68(3),
234-242.
Lewis, J., & Caldwell, B.J. (2005).
Evidence-Based Leadership,The
Educational Forum, 69(2), 182-191.
Review the Website: Flow
Charts: Understanding and Communicating How a Process Works
Implementation
of the Plan
- To carry out this assignment:
- Develop a flow chart for weekly
activities. Your weekly activities must reflect your plan of action..
- Write up each interview, telephone
contact and conference with your supervisor related to your CA.
- Outline for writing up your
interviews, telephone contacts and conferences with your supervisor.
- Name of
participants:
Date_______
- Who called the meeting? Who was in charge?
- Place contact/interview took place
- Purpose of the Meeting (your objective)
- Strategy-----
- Important topics and issues discussed
- Discuss the outcome of each topic/issue
(make a list of negative and positive outcomes)
- Explain why the session went the way it
did. (It is important to demonstrate application of your readings)
- Assess the session in terms of the
purpose for which it was planned.
- Did others have a different purpose for
the meeting?
- If yes, did it help or hinder your
purpose?
- As a result of this contact/interview
what is your next step.
Time in
Class to Develop a Flow Chart of Weekly Activities
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#8 |
Analysis
of Data
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Submit
Plan of Action
Bring to
Class All Completed Surveys
Review the SPSS White paper
available on the course web site:
SPSS - Successful Program
Implementation Through Statistics
Review the SPSS White paper
available on the course web site:
SPSS - The Future of Program
Evaluation in an Era of Government Reinvention
Review Web
Site: EXCEL - About statistical
analysis tools
Review Web
Site: EXCEL - Create a chart
Review the Statsoft Electronic Statistics
Textbook Web Site
Computer Lab time to:
Enter
Data into SPSS or Excel Spreadsheet
Review Excel, SPSS charts, graphs,
and survey findings
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#9
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Marketing
Plan and Outreach
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Submit
Literature Review
Submit
Reflective Journal
- Review of the Constructive Action and marketing plan
- Identify marketing plan(s)
- Designate significant individuals to include in
marketing plan
- Prepare any written materials, letters, posters,
advertisments to be distributed
- Secure permission from supervisor or other agency
personnel to market change
- Develop a manual on the proposed change (
finished product)
Computer Lab time to:
Develop marketing plan
statgies and materials (brochures, fliers)_
Develop operational manual to show new program or
new policy or procedures
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#10
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Assessment
of Plans
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Submit Data Analysis
Read on Web: Andrew
Lewis, Nonprofit
Organizational Assessment Tool: Strategic Planning
Review Web Site: Checklist for a Planning Assessment for
Nonprofit Organizations
- Instructions
- You will assess the results of your change
intent, expectations, actual change results, and if you succeeded in
reaching your goal.
- You must show evidence or proof that you were
successful.
- To carry out this assignment you must:
- Use your evaluation plan
- Review outcomes from your contacts/ interviews and
other activities carried out.
- Evaluate each objective by using charts and/or
graphs. Identify which one(s) were most successful, and indicate
which strategies were most successful. This should be based
on your outcomes.
- After assessing your evidence.
- Discuss if your plan of action was realistic and
if you were able to reach your goal. If you were successful, identify
what factors were helpful.
- Review your Logic Model and Force-Field
Analysis.
- Also include what changed in the
organization.
- If you were not able to succeed in carrying out
your plan of action, indicate factors that limited your
impact on the problem.
- Did you make changes in your plan of action?
Explain
- Identify next steps for your Constructive Action.
Class time to Work on
Assessment of CA Implementation
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#11
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Integrating
the dimension
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Submit Assessement of CA
Incorporating Content
from Each Dimension into CA
- How knowledge was used from the Purpose dimensions
to achieve the Constructive Action goal.
- Choose 5 concepts from your readings in each
dimension and discuss how you used each concept in carrying out your
Constructive Action.
- When writing this section use heading, such as
purpose, values, self and others, etc.
- List the concepts that you are going to discuss
under each dimension.
- Define the concept by the author and then give an
example of how you used the concept in practice.
- Conclusion:
- Discuss what you have learned about change,
managing change and trying to implement change in an
organization.
- How do you think you may use the knowledge gained in
this Purpose in the future?
Class Time to Work on Purpose
Dimension
Integration
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#12 |
Preparing the Final CA Document
Using PowerPoint
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Review of the Constructive Action and items
to be included in the Constructive Action Document:
- Table of Contents - Organization of the Constructive
Action Document
- Reference list (readings used in the Constructive
Action) in proper APA format
- Appendices: copy of survey, marketing brochure,
program
manual, field evaluation, organizational chart, logs, and any other
relevant materials.
- A Print Copy of the Constructive Action Document and
a copy on a computer disk.
Computer Lab Time to Review PowerPoint
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#13
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Change,
Leadership & Social Movements
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Submit
Preliminary CA Document
Film
on Social Change
Computer Lab Time to work on CA Document
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#14
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Powerpoint
Presentations
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Submit
Bound CA Document with File on Disk
Submit
Final Field Evaluation
Submit
Completed Reflective Field Journal
Submit
Time Sheet
PowerPoint
Presentations of CA Projects in Class
Before preparing your powerpoint presentation read:
To carry out this assignment, develop a summary of
your Constructive Action, pointing out why you decided to work on this
particular issue and the final results or outcomes.
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#15
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Review
and Summary
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