Session Four of This Course Discusses Nine Different Change Tools –, Singapore

Assignment Requirements:

Session four of this course discusses nine different change tools. Your task is to choose two, and critically evaluate their usefulness to effect change for BOTH a manufacturing company and a service company.

Note: you are NOT to investigate (that mean one tool for manufacturing company and one tool service company.)***

Lewin’s Classical Model. The available change tools to evaluate are:

• Socio-technical system approach
• The organisation development school
• The learning organisation
• Lean production
• TQM
• Business process re-engineering
• Best practice
• The high-performance work organisation.

Question: “Are these change tools appropriate, not appropriate, or partially appropriate to change both a manufacturing company and a service company?” along with an explanation of how you reached that conclusion.