Week Three Task

1.What strategies does your organization have in place to encourage development, change and innovation?
2.Develop& articulate ideas for describing leading change in an organisation of your choice.
3.Reflection and response from Fullan's framework.

An Analysis From CC (XIE YUCHEN）
What strategies does your organization have in place to encourage development, change and innovation?

As for the fifth discipline: Systems thinking, mental models, mastery, teams, vision, my organization has all have those features, as I mentioned in last session activity.

Important roles in the innovation process include opinion leaders, change agents and change aides.

As far as I concerned, our school provides economic support and technique support to encourage development, change and innovation. When the senior want to make this system himself, he had been encountered many problems. However, our tutor gave him much help that he ask professor to guide him and help him solve problem, which I think is change agents and change aides.

Develop and articulate ideas for describing leading change in an organisation of your choice.

I want to use the framework of leadership: moral purpose, understanding change, relationship building, knowledge creation and sharing and coherence making. With high support rate and the same support from school, our tutor started to lead change in our system, although the foundation of system was made by his student, he gave student the topic and much economic support, technique support. Among this heavy work, he has moral purpose(making a system for faculty is a challenge); he understood the whole process of change, even all kinds of details; he has good relationship with professor and students, so that he successfully achieved the goal; he must be a leader in knowledge creation and sharing, he also reflected different bugs in terms of technique; besides, after the system used in our faculty, he still kept up all problems to coherence making.

What can we learn from this framework? What are the implications in our workplace?

1. Moral purpose

It means that we should not be involved in the vicious competition, and almost every time the leader must pay attention to the mutual benefit rather than personal interest. In our workplace, we must put moral in our heart to keep positive attitude.

2. Understanding change

Only when we understand change, can we do better and more efficient. In our workplace, it is critical to understand the change process and handle the whole development to do better in leadership.

3. Relationship building

In my opinion, good relationship lead to high efficient and good group work, which reflect great team work. Leader organizes a united team require a good relationship-building skill.

4. Knowledge creation and sharing

Equipped with knowledge, group will be stronger and stronger. Thus, knowledge creation and sharing becomes one of most important things for leader. Only when leader set an example for members, can others be more positive and moral to share information and devote to creation.

5. Coherence making

Coherence making is also vital for leadership development. It related to the above 4 components. In a word, these 5 components are close in relationship. It helps to remain the change.

Posted by Anne (HUANG Anni)

What is the implication from Fullan's framework
Looking into the case of managing change, we can identify that leadership plays an decisive role. Generally, a successful leadership contains features such as commitment, understanding change, widely horizon and so on. Principal as leader in school should be concern of the big picture and sustainable innovation. There are five components of Fullan's leadership framework: moral purpose, understanding change, relational building, knowledge creation and sharing and coherence making. 

Actually, I don't understand what moral purpose really means at beginning. After read the paper written by Fullan, I start to learn that moral purpose not just link to how leaders manage the faculties but also how they make difference in the social system. As everyone lives dependently and school as well, to create a sustaining innovation system we need to work together and try to close the gap between high level and low level. Embracing creative ideas doesn't mean that reformation can be put into action immediately. It is important for principal to understand the change process and how to driven the process. Fullan suggested six principles to help understanding. I find he puts much emphasis on step by step and clear as far as possible. Change is a long term process and will definitely overcome many difficulties, which require leaders to keep calm and perseverance to face the challenge and so as to encourage members. Relationship with others have great impact on the whole process ongoing. A good relationship can increase the process or the situation may get worse. Leaders should take advantages of emotion and devote into building a harmonious relationship, which can benefit the next stage. Once people share the same interest they would intend to share knowledge with each other. Different voice help leaders to rethink and make intelligent decision. Finally, the principals should be future-oriented person. Change is as lasting as a war, the difference is that almost people look forward a place where education can be innovative and sustainable.

Develop & articulate ideas for describing leading change in an organisation of your choice.
Technology has become an increasingly important component while a school thinking about encourage change. Most school in mainland China spend a lot of money to integrate technical equipment such as whiteboard, tablet, more desktops in library, studio and classroom. To meet the needs of network, since 2010, the students in our School have access to internet no matter when and where they need to search information as wired and wireless network covered the whole campus. Moreover, with the e-book become more and more popular, the students can borrow them from library. The purpose for doing this is that e-book were supposed to be more economic and convenient for students to take away and share knowledge with each other.  Besides, the innovation brings a change of relationship between teachers and students. Teachers would like to open their mind through hearing from students as some of them are really good at IT. The interaction happens not only on classroom but extended classroom. To sum up, first advantage of technology implementation is technology enriches the method of teaching and learning. Second, both staff and students encouraged to learn more and share knowledge. Thirdly, change always make people rethink and develop.

A Post from Abby (Yao Ruyan)

What strategies does your organization have in place to encourage development, change and innovation?

In the  organization I chose －Faculty of  Humanities in ZJUT, the main strategies supporting development, change and innovation are from three parts: policy ,technology and leading team. 

First one is policy: Policy is very important for organizational development, change and innovation. With the encouragement and guidance from policies,people can do all the changes in a really passionate mode. All technical, economic supports will appear only after the supportive policies are established. In my faculty, the dean and the management team announced several policies per year for promoting innovation and change.

Second one is technology: Technology is the significant impetus. With the a raising tide of technology, all the thoughts,plans about development change and innovation can be realized with the indispensable condition. The facilities in my faculty would be updated every few years in order to keep pace with the teaching plans, students' needs and the changes.

Last one is Leading team: All the innovations and changes are usually following the rules--top-down model. In order to lead a successful change, the top part should be aware of all the policies, spirit, processes and so on. A leading team can be the centre of the development, change and innovation and also can be the supervisor during the whole process. In our school, there is an organization named Modern Educational Technology Research Institution.Every faculty has a corresponding teacher in the institution who would be responsible for all the activities in the faculty.

Develop& articulate ideas for describing leading change in an organisation of your choice.

In Faculty of Humanities, there are usually four steps describing the leading change.
1.The dean and management team would make some policies for our own faculty after the national, school policies announced.
2.The responsible teacher from Modern Educational Technology Research Institution would give theoretic support and make specific plans with the teachers in faculty about carrying out the changes.
3.After a period of time for executing the plan, teachers and the responsible teacher would hold a meeting to exchange ideas and opinions about the plan and make a few changes in order to have a better outcome.
4.When the whole plan finishes, all teachers and students are encouraged to give their opinions about the whole process. And the leaders would collect the opinions and have a summary meeting.

Reflection and response from Fullan's framework.

In this frame work, there are five elements about leadership:moral purpose, understanding change, relationship building, knowledge creation and sharing, coherence making. I'd like to use these five elements to analyze the situation in my case.

1.Moral purpose:The real benefit should be emphasized more on mural part instead of just making the work better. When leaders are thinking of all the changes they should have the whole education and society in their plan.

2.Understanding change: Change just for change's sake is stupid and enervating. When we want to make a change, we want to do something innovative, we need to get the real idea of why we are changing. Only after leaders really understanding change, can change be a better change.

3.Relationship building: During the whole process of development, change and innovation, all work needs to be done by the co-work from all staffs. Build a relationship about cooperation, mutual aid is necessary and important.

4.Knowledge creation and sharing: "You have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas,then each of us will have two ideas." Sharing ideas and knowledge are helpful for stimulating new thoughts and encouraging innovations.

5.Coherence making:Development, change and innovation is a long last work. A period time of work can not be able to change the whole change. All the plan should be a step of the whole picture. 

Understanding of Janey (HU Jiani)

1.What strategies does your organization have in place to encourage development, change and innovation?
My faculty has set up a system for Japanese language learning as I mentioned in the last week assignment. The leader group of my faculty has devoted a lot for building this system. They want to let the language learning more effectively and we students can really use them in real life and work. The made some strategies to encourage development,change and innovation.
For teachers: a series of surveys are prepared for teachers, they can present their feeling of using this system on the online forum freely. These feedback will be considered seriously.
For students: there are online tests for students to check learning outcomes. Also, there are surveys for students.
For software company: my faculty encourage the company to develop the system, and will give them reward.

2.Develop& articulate ideas for describing leading change in an organisation of your choice.
The system I mentioned before was developed after changing the leaders. The new leaders are young, innovative and full of  passion people. Before, the idea of the leader would be considered seriously, but now, the leaders are good at listening the voice from teachers and students.
For the system, students, teachers,leaders and also the software company have responsibility to develop it, this idea works effectively.


3.What can we learn from this framework? What are the implications in our workplace?

1. Moral purpose

Just like my group mate CC said before,"It means that we should not be involved in the vicious competition, and almost every time the leader must pay attention to the mutual benefit rather than personal interest. In our workplace, we must put moral in our heart to keep positive attitude.
I think this factor is very important for the developing Mainland China. In my faculty, leaders really want to do some meaningful things for students learning, so they introduced this online learning system.

2. Understanding change

Time is changing, technology is also changing all the time. We should keep our mind with the speed of social development, find what is necessary, find what is meaningful, find what is good for future. 
In the case of my faculty, at first, some old teachers can't be used to this system very well , they said they prefer the traditional way in teaching.The faculty designed training courses for teachers to support them use this system. When these teachers realized the benefit of this system, they change their understanding. 

3. Relationship building

In my opinion, good relationship lead to good group work. Good cooperation is very important for a successful organization. 
In my case, leaders, teachers, students and software company have good relationship and work effectively together.
4. Knowledge creation and sharing

Knowledge is the power for developing. Sharing let people use resources more effectively. 
By using this system, teachers and students share learning resources in the online database, discuss and communicate on the forum.

5. Coherence making

Above four factors make a coherence outcome. These five factors influent each other, and close to each other.