HRM and Team Management
The notion by Vernon that AAA should not expand out of their core business and Bud that AAA is not strong enough to compete with existing companies that service the nonperishable foods market in the Midwest confirms a fact that people normally have a built-in anti-change immune system. This kind of mindset creates a powerful inclination to resist change (Duffy, 2009). Unlocking and subsequent modification of immune system can make an organization's employees' to release new energy on behalf of new ways of thinking, believing, and doing. The internal anti-change immune systems are powered by entropy, negentropy, and dynamic equilibrium. This paper discusses and defines mental models and mindsets and how they affect an organization's employees in this case AAA Transportation an interstate trucking company that specializes in transporting wholesale produce in refrigerated trailers in the Midwest. The paper identifies four steps to changing mental models and how they can be used to bring Vernon, AAA drivers' supervisor, and Bud, AAA's corporate officer onto the team. The paper also identifies the five forces that influence those mental models/mindsets and how they affect coworkers' mindsets with examples of mental models/mindsets that are possible affecting Vernon and Bud's decision making processes. Finally, the paper analyses the most commonly used mental models/mindsets in guiding decision making at the workplace and how those models influence ones decision making process.
Some of the four steps that can be used to bring Vernon and Bud onto the team are: recognizing the power and limits of the mental model; keeping the mental models relevant; overcoming inhibitors to change; and transforming the world. It appears that both Vernon and Bud are against the resolve by the new AAA Transporters management to add delivery of nonperishable products like canned foods to their delivery route. The...
Vernon strongly feels that the company should not expand out of their core business while bud is inclined to an idea that AAA is not strong enough to compete with existing companies that service the non-perishable foods market. The first step into changing their mindsets is identifying why diversification of AAA's traditional market is alien to them. Could it be that these gentlemen fear that when AAA deviates from its core business into transportation of non-perishables will make the company gradually fall apart and they may subsequently loose their jobs? Could it be that the duo strongly believes that natural and mechanical systems cannot improve themselves so by objecting to the new management's proposition they would preserve the status quo and keep things locked in place? Could it also be that these gentlemen's mindsets are hardened by beliefs and values that are collectively built into the system's social infrastructure? New mental models can also be built to change the duo's mental mindsets using the tacit and explicit knowledge (Duffy, 2009). Organization wide knowledge can be created by engaging individual experts in structured activities to make their tacit expertise explicit. The best of the explicit knowledge is then transformed into organization wide explicit knowledge. This creates functional organization wide mental models.
Some of the forces that influence workers mental model/mindsets are environmental, hereditary, educational, genetic, and past experiences. Individuals within an organization normally make up their minds on what works and what does not work. These attitudes are fuelled by beliefs and values. Talking of educational forces, workers in an organization may resist transformational change because that change threatens to undermine and displace everything they know, believe,…
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Managing Organisational Change Kotter's 8-Step model is one of the most commonly used models in change management. The model provides eight useful guidelines which can be applied to change management within the context of human resource management (HRM). This paper explores the applicability of the model to a change initiative aimed at shifting from job-based compensation to knowledge-based compensation at Dataversity. Dataversity provides digital educational and publishing services to business and
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