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¶ … images managing change. These images change represent ways managers view effective strategy bring change. Each represents a mindset unique a manager summarize key components change.
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In the context of a dynamic business climate, economic agents have to continually devise new means of dealing with the emergent challenges. What this virtually means is that the companies across the globe strive to develop and implement changes that help them to better address the new tests. Economic agents are as such undergoing a constant change process, but this is in itself intricate and difficult to complete.
The success of any change process depends on a wide array of elements, such as the nature of the change, the benefits it would generate -- both real as well as perceived -- or the role played by the manager. In other words, the means in which the leader manages the change is pivotal to the ultimate success of the change process.
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Each of these change management images deals in its own specific manner with change and impacts its team in a certain manner.
At the current organization, the change process was necessary in order to further increase the competitiveness of the firm as its overall profitability. The manager decided to increase the productivity of the employees by increasing their workloads. Within the same time span then, the employees were asked to work more.
The reaction of the employees was rather shy, but clear -- they did not embrace the change, not because they did not want the firm to become more competitive, but because they were already stressed and overworked. Such a change process further adds to the already existent personnel problems (Parkes, 2010).
Still, the response of the manager was not…
References:
Chowdhury, D.D., Structured approach to improve passive aggressive organizational behavior: an empirical research, Dihman Deb Chowdhury, ISBN 0557048680
Parkes, G.., 2010, Increasing workload weighs heavily on employees' well-being, AOL Jobs, http://jobs.aol.com/articles/2010/10/04/increasing-workload / last accessed on January 18, 2012
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If these managers are unfit at achieving such objectives, the change process will not be effective. Establish the vision and the strategy Any change management process must start by building a vision that the new organization will be based on. Same as all companies are built on a vision of their founders, so should the new organization that will result after the change management process, be built on a vision. Although the
Change Management Scenario The contemporary business environment is rapidly evolving. Globalization has taken over the organization environment, and with this business is forced to undergo continuous and rapid change driven by increasing stakeholder expectations, new technological advances, and competition that is not only global, but viral (Bendell, 2005). This has resulted in a dramatically different business environment in which the modern business, in order to survive and prosper, is forced to
Change As we will see in the case studies, leadership is a decisive factor in the process of diagnosing and in the implementation of changes in the operation of a corporate organisation. IT, HR and corporate work ethics may be excellent. However, without secure and decisive leadership, the best organisational makeovers can fail miserably. In this part of the essay, this author will illustrate three models and techniques in the change management
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