The second step taken may be to convince staff that changes are essential for surviving in the business and this would provide a new force in support which may be called survival with strength of 2. Then there may be an action to convince the workers that new machines would increase variety to their jobs and this would introduce a new positive force with strength of 1. Even existing negatives can be changed into positive and wages can be increased providing a positive of 1 and a simultaneous loss of 2 due to removal of overtime. (Force Field Analysis - Understanding the Pressures For and Against Change)
Another possible change is of filters which would eliminate pollution and this would remove a negative strength of 1. All these actions would make the balance which was against the change by 11 to 10 to a balance in favor of the plan by 13 to 8. (Force Field Analysis - Understanding the Pressures For and Against Change) Sometimes, it may be possible to make changes which are not so obvious, like shifting to an open plan. It is much easier to work as a team when the area is open as walls and barriers get in the way, but these may not be suitable for some organizations where high concentration is required, as in the IT functions....
(Minimizing Stress in Your
Working Environment)
Conclusion:
The changes can be made not only to a total organization, but even to parts of it like the Information
technology part of it. The methods of making the changes and requirement of changes can only be finalized when the expectations from the changes are known and that would depend on the situation.
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Cost/Benefit Analysis-Evaluating Quantitatively Whether to Follow a Course of Action.
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Force Field Analysis - Understanding the Pressures for and Against Change" Retrieved at http://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/newTED_06.htm. Accessed 20 October, 2005
Minimizing Stress in Your Working Environment" Retrieved at http://www.mindtools.com/stress/EnvironmentalStress/WorkingEnvironmentStress.htm. Accessed 20 October, 2005
Stress in Today's Workplace" Retrieved at http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/stresswk.html. Accessed 20 October, 2005
To-Do Lists: Remembering To Do All Essential Jobs, In the Right Order" Retrieved at http://www.mindtools.com/prtodo.html. Accessed 20 October, 2005
