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Leading Organization Change Week 6 – Discussion 1
Productive Failure
Sometimes things go wrong and it’s not always a bad thing. Define and discuss the
concept of productive failure. Discuss a time in your organization’s history (or an
organization you are familiar with) when a change process failed. Explain the situation
and what was learned in the process. Why do some organizations fail but become
stronger while others fail to recover?Week 6 – Discussion 2
Making Change Stick
While change is inevitable in most organizations, there is a difference between change
that is superficial and embedded sustaining change. Drawing from this week’s lecture
and readings, discuss the processes for successfully implementing and sustaining
change. Provide examples that are designed to help make change stick and apply at
least one of the examples to an organizational change with which you are familiar. Answer Preview………Productive Failure. Productive failure refers to a learning strategy whereby the learners persist to develop new ideas and generate solutions for complex challenges. The process is made up of several failures before the problem-solving team comes up with ideal solutions to the challenges being sol

ved. Thus, the productive failure method allows individuals to see how terrible they can be before developing the most effective alternative. Consequently, it facilitates better learning among organization members as it allows them to learn from their mistakes. This is because it makes individuals to be comfortable with the errors they make, a condition that gives them the confidence to share their ideas with others as they are not afraid of being viewed as failures. Moreover, productive failure allows individuals to continue doing the things they find irritating or uncomfortable with, hence strengthening their weaknesses. For this reason, it is an ideal approach to use to introduce change in organizations. An example of when our firm used productive failure to learn was when we introduced new working hours. Employees were required to report to work at 9am instead of 8am and leave at 6pm instead of 5pm. The objective of the change was to enhance productivity as employees would not arrive late at work. However, the productivity declined significantly as the workers’ were extremely demoralized. Most of them reported to work late while others left before the…………APA  651 words
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