Position Paper on Managing Change and Innovation in Nuclear Power Plant

Your project needs to capture and illustrate the change process in an nuclear power plant. 

1.Manage change within organizations; distinguish between innovation and improvement in organizations. 

2.Apply the processes and techniques which contribute to innovative thinking for themselves and for their employees 

3.Solve problems associated with the development of innovative products and services and leading organizational change.

The aim of the position paper to assess student ability to critically discuss the issues and supported with literature.

1. Student expected to produce Position Paper 1 and have an option to discuss in two different issues as shown below:

a. Discuss how management manage and implement changes in an organization. [Highlight the problem, how the process change take place, any resistance occurs, challenges, so on], 

2. Position Paper 2, related to and student should analyze the following:

a. Discuss the process and technique contribute to innovative thinking either for themselves or their employees. The various process and technique have been explained by Instructor in tutorial and also can be found in most of innovative thinking text book.

b. What is expected is, thinking outside the box from student mind and idea of other process and technique. It may contribute from student intuition or from other empirical studies cited from journal.

3. For the last paper, Position Paper 3 the discussion emphasis on – “Discuss various challenges and problems associated in developing an innovative product or services or process that ultimately leading to organizational change”. The discussion should begin with identifying - What is the problem? Why organization should innovate?, and process of innovation (radical or incremental), challenges, prior before the change take place.

4. Students are encourage to refer to various journal to support your idea in writing up their assignment. Good position paper should be able to discuss each issues critically, depth and relate to any contemporary cases existed locally, regionally or globally. Citing references contributed to high level of understanding of each issues. The flow of writing is important to attract the reader and should be free of any grammatically error. 

5. Each position paper should be written report in Times Roman and the length of the assignment between 3 to 5 pages, font 12 and double space. References and in-text citation should follow APA style.