Assignment 3: Team Project Paper Organizational Change and Culture Project (Part II)

Due: Monday, 9:00 am (eastern), Week 10 (Weight: 20%)

Activities

Post your business briefs and videos in the Team Workspace by the end of Week 7; review each team member’s brief and video.
In Week 8, in your Team Workspace, discuss your change plans and vision videos. Use the questions in the forum to grow your perspective and add value to your feedback to peers.
As a team, write and submit a 4 to 5-page paper that compares and contrasts the outcomes and observations of each individual project. You may use the Team Workspace or your team’s chosen tool to work together writing and editing your paper.
Your team paper will focus on similarities and differences, using the prompts below as a guide:

Compare and contrast each vision, the timeline, the intended results, and the tools proposed. Note: Examples of change management tools include stakeholder analysis, communication plans, training needs analysis, training plans, employee feedback tools, dashboards, balanced scorecards, risk management plans, and additional tools such as impact assessments, organizational network analysis, and change readiness assessments.
Analyze the effectiveness of Kotter’s eight-stage framework in relation to each project.
Compare and contrast best practices and the definition of desired results for each change management plan.
Identify any unresolved issues or areas for improvement and provide a brief summary as to the action proposed to address those issues.
What have you learned from this collaboration? What tools or practices helped your virtual team to work together effectively? Note: If the team uses AI for any portion of this analysis, please include the results in an Appendix and provide references and citations for the AI tool used.

Professional Formatting Recommendations:

Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the team’s name, a list of team members, the professor’s name, and the course title and date
Include a references page, showing all your sources
The cover page and the references page are not included in the required page length
Double-spaced professional font (Times New Roman or Ariel), 10-12 font size
Headings are used to identify main topics and subtopics
Paragraphs are separated by a single space

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Rubric: Assignment 3

Weight: 20%	Team Project Paper
Criteria	Honors	High Pass	Pass	Low Pass	Unsatisfactory
1. Compare and contrast the individual change projects and change vision videos. Student responds according to the guide prompts. Analyze the effectiveness of Kotter’s framework for each project. Weight: 30%	Similarities and differences between each project are exemplarily identified. Responds to all guide prompts fully and in excellent detail. Demonstrates excellent and insightful analysis of the effectiveness of Kotter’s framework for every project.	Similarities and differences between each project are completely identified. Responds well to all guide prompts. Demonstrates good, thorough analysis of the effectiveness of Kotter’s framework for every project.	Similarities and differences between each project are satisfactorily identified. Responds to all guide prompts, but some parts lack adequate detail. Demonstrates some analysis of the effectiveness of Kotter’s framework and covers every project.	Similarities and differences between each project are partially identified. Responds to 3 or 4 guide prompts, but not to all 5 prompts. Partially demonstrates analysis of the effectiveness of Kotter’s framework for some projects but not all.	Similarities and differences between each project are not identified and/or explanation is poor. Responds to 2 or fewer guide prompts. Little to no analysis of the effectiveness of Kotter’s framework for each project.
2. Discuss best practices, unresolved issues, and actions proposed in the team’s change projects, according to the assignment instructions	Paper excellently discusses best practices, unresolved issues, and actions proposed, according to the assignment instructions.	Paper thoroughly discusses best practices, unresolved issues, and actions proposed, according to the assignment instructions.	Paper satisfactorily discusses best practices, unresolved issues, and actions proposed, according to the assignment instructions.	Paper partially discusses best practices, unresolved issues, and actions proposed, according to the assignment instructions.	Paper does not or unsatisfactorily discusses best practices, unresolved issues, and actions proposed, according to the assignment instructions.
Weight: 30%

Weight: 20%	Team Project Paper
Criteria	Honors	High Pass	Pass	Low Pass	Unsatisfactory
3. Describe and reflect on what team members have learned from their collaboration. Describe tools or practices that helped the team work together virtually. Weight: 25%	Exemplary description and reflection about team members’ learning from their collaboration. Excellent description of tools or practices that helped the team work together virtually.	Good, thoughtful description and reflection about team members’ learning from their collaboration. Good description of tools or practices that helped the team work together virtually.	Some description and reflection about team members’ learning from their collaboration. Satisfactory description of tools or practices that helped the team work together virtually.	Partial description and reflection about team members’ learning from their collaboration. Minimal description of tools or practices that helped the team work together virtually.	No or minimal description and reflection about team members’ learning from their collaboration. Did not describe tools or practices that helped the team work together virtually.
4. The paper was a team effort and is professionally formatted, includes in- text citations, references, and is free from grammatical errors. Weight: 15%	Paper was a team effort and is excellently formatted. All sources are consistently cited in-text and references are included in a manner that enables the reader to quickly identify sources. There are no mechanics or usage errors.	Paper was a team effort and is professionally formatted. Most sources are consistently cited in-text and the reference list is included. Mechanics and usage errors, if any, are minor and have no impact on the flow.	Paper was a team effort and is satisfactorily professional in format. Sources are not always consistently cited in-text and the reference list may not be appropriately formatted. There may be a few mechanics and usage errors, but they do not have a major impact on the flow.	Paper was a team effort and is semi- professional in format. Sources may not be consistently cited and/or the reference list is incomplete or improperly formatted. Several mechanics and usage errors make parts of the text difficult for the reader to understand.	Paper was not a team effort and is unprofessionally formatted and contains multiple mechanics and usage errors. References and citations are not presented or minimal.