Change Management Initiative

Before you begin the assignment, read the Inside Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s radical management experiment that prompted 14% of employees to quit (https://www.businessinsider.com/tony-hsieh-zappos-holacracy-management-experiment-2015-5) article. For this interactive assignment, you are to take on the role of an internal consultant that has been tasked with transitioning a large, traditionally multi-tier organization into a holacracy. Your role as an internal consultant is to create a 7- to 10-slide PowerPoint presentation for the executive board that addresses the following elements of the change initiative. A description of holacracy. Justify the need for change from the current management model to holacracy. Use Kotter’s eight-step change leadership model to explain how you would implement holacracy. Describe the proposed change using each of Kotter’s eight steps of change leadership: Establishing a sense of urgency Creating a guiding coalition Developing a vision and strategy Communicating the change vision Empowering broad-based action Generating short-term wins Consolidating gains and producing more change Anchoring new approaches in the culture Explain some of the anticipated problems that may occur and recommend possible solutions. A references slide with a minimum of two scholarly and/or credible sources. Create an email to the executive board that addresses the purpose of your change management initiative. Provide a detailed explanation of why holacracy is a better fit for the organization.