Week Four Essay Assignment

Please use APA formatting, double-spaced, 6-8 pages, include references.

-You are in upper management for a mid-sized manufacturing company. Recent economic changes forced upper management to move much of the manufacturing to a foreign country. As a result, many of the state-side employees will be forced to work directly with foreign counterparts. There is great concern that the existing employees may not embrace the change, and you’ve been tasked with creating a plan to minimize the fallout.

-Develop a plan that will facilitate as smooth of a transition as possible, optimizing employee buy-in, satisfaction, and productivity. Write a report that explains the details of your plan, and be sure to integrate concrete examples and supportive reasoning for how to implement this plan following each step of Lewin’s 3-Stage Model of Change.

Lewin’s 3-Stage Model of Change : Web Reference https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newPPM_94.htm

Lewin’s 3-Stage Model of Change: Text Book Reference 

Nelson, D. L., & Quick, J. C. (2012). Organizational Behavior: Science, The Real World, and You (8th ed., Vol. 8). Cengage Learning.