Change Cycle in an Organization: As Literature

Change Cycle in an Organization:

As literature (Anderson 2001, Gelinas 1998, Olson 2001, Smith 1997) refers that process of organizational change starts from establishing a committed leadership through the need for and vision of the change to taking action, supervising the improvement and closing out the change. The basic organization change cycle is as under:

Launching A Committed Leadership:

Here we need to share stories within the organization about the need of change, passion one is having for change and how change helps in past and when change did not work. We need to decide that in any future possible situation who will take a stand? What a leader will do for taking stand? Why a leader needs to take stand?

Smell The Need For Change:

Before making a change we should know very well about some issues which arises questions like what is the current situation. Why do we need a change? What problems we are facing with current model?

Establishing A Vision For Change:

Here we have to create a vision among people that what would be future benefits of the change? Could we reach to our desire future through this change? How one would personally benefit from change?

Taking Action:

This step will explain about plans, responsibilities, jobs assignment and actions which are in process.

Maintaining Change:

These steps include an explanation about which barriers are to be face for sustaining the desire change? How one will persists the change? And how much courage we have to persist it?

Monitoring The Progress:

One should have an eye on issues like how are we doing? What's different?

Adaptations And Correctness Course:

There are some courses about the change which will tell us about what we are learning?

Completion And Celebration:

Make a promotion of stories about the achievement through change and celebrate victory with employees.

Responsibility On Managing The Change:

The responsibility of managing the change is not on the employees, employees only have the responsibility to do their best. Different jobs are assign to different employees thus each employee has a different responsibility depends upon the factor like health, maturity, stability, personality, experience, motivation.

Leaders (Managers and executives) are the responsible for managing the change; they must manage the change in such a way that each employee does not feel any difficulty in adopting the change. Manager can facilitate the employees by understanding a situation from an objective point-of-view, then according to employees strength and situation manager should help employees in understanding the reasons, goal and the way of responding positively. Hence the role of manager should be of interpreter and communicator, not of instructor and imposer, to whom nobody like to respond well.