17 Aug History of change management in organization

Literature Review

Welcome to Week 4 and one of the most essential aspects of your research paper: The Literature Review and research Approach

1. The Literature Review:

For most research projects, the process of reviewing the literature and starting to draft your review will be an early activity. Despite this early start, it is usually necessary to continue refining your review throughout your project’s life. The process can be likened to an upward spiral, culminating in the finished product, a written critical literature review of the literature. Once you have a good knowledge of the literature sources available then you could start composing your initial draft of your paper. The literature sources you are likely to make the most use of are often referred to as:

• secondary literature sources, these being formally published items such as journals and books;
• grey (or primary) literature sources, these being items produced by all levels of government, academics, business, and industry in print and electronic formats, but which are not controlled by commercial publishers; including materials such as reports and conference proceedings.

Remember: This is a business project focus project. Meaning, this is not a qualitative or quantitative style traditional paper. Keep these topics in mind:

• You are running a real organization, profit or non-profit. It must be a company already in existence. (FANG, Twitter, Microsoft, Target, Walmart and the giants are excluded from your selection). I suggest an organization where YOU are a stakeholder.
  • You are identifying a change occurring within the organization. You are selecting a technology related tool to guide the potential change Sections are:
  1. History of change management in organization
  2. Past and present innovation and challenges within the organization
  3. Societal innovation and challenges present and future
  4. Your Technology application and proposal
  5. Then what?