Examine the impact of environmental change on management practices and to identify and evaluate theories and theorists that influence our management building skills.
Your manager overheard you telling a colleague that you are taking a graduate-level organizational theory class at UMGC. He remembers his college course on organizational behavior and realizes that he found the knowledge he learned extremely useful over the years. Lately, he has felt that he has been overwhelmed with changes that require him and his employees to quickly respond to situations that he cannot always solve effectively. Experience has taught him that professional development is a lifelong endeavor. To that end he would like you to select some articles for him to read on the following topics: management theory, management skills and practices, external/economic impacts to organizations, internal/structure impacts to organizations, and/or responding to change.
Instructions for this assignment:
Step 1: Using OneSearch in the UMGC online library, conduct a search for at least 3 scholarly articles that address how organizations can respond to unplanned change (whether internal or external). The articles need to be current - published within the past five years.
· Article selection should consider management theory, management skills and practices, external/economic impacts to organizations, internal/structure impacts to organizations, and/or responding to change.
· Articles should bring a contemporary perspective on one or more of the major theorists who developed management studies in the 19th-20th centuries.
Step 2: Create an annotated bibliography for each article. Guidance on writing an an annotated bibliography can be found here. The articles should be summarized in 2-3 paragraphs as the format suggests.
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