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CHANGE MANAGEMENT
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Change Management 3
Its Criticality to Organisational Survival 5
Reason for Change Management being Critical to Organisational Survival 5
Conclusion 7
References 8
Introduction
Change is considered to be universal constant. It is considered to be the basic process that allows progress in all fields, ranging from an individual’s personal activities, to the professional domain like business organisations as well as in the governing authorities of country. Change not only
eaks the monotony of previously implemented ways, but also forms the foundation to achieve new heights. Hence, it is important to have an open-mindset to accept and adapt to changes. Business environment and its associated factors have also been known to evolve with time.
For instance, the consumer base of a product also shifts among different class of people and their associated need of the time. Although, it may appear to be challenging, it is very crucial for the business organisations to adapt to the changing scenarios quickly. If they fail to do so, they would lose out to other business entities striving to outcompete them. Hence, managing and adapting to change is vital. This essay attempts to look into the basics of change management and its importance.
Change Management
Change management is defined as a well-planned strategy to adjust with a change or transition of the targets, methods as well as technologies of any organisation. Change management mostly aims at methods
inging about change, channelizing the change as well as helping employees and customers adapt to it. Change Management also refers to the process of constantly changing and redirecting a company’s structure, direction and strategies to cater to the needs of the customers. It encompasses both internal and external changes. According to Kuipers et al. (2014), change is a constant term, both at strategic and operational level, of an organisation. Hence, for any company the need of organisational change is highly important in order to succeed and maintain top position in market. The concept of change management is related to anyone who tries to understand the root cause of any change, the impact of the change that can lead to some long term consequences and ways to mitigate the detrimental consequences.
The term ‘change management’ can be
oken down into four parts— individual change, leading change, team change and organisational change. As mentioned by Cameron and Green (2015), these fours perspectives
ing together different approaches including the cognitive, behavioural, psychodynamic and humanistic psychology approaches. Together, these approaches help to manage and mitigate complex changes and its adverse effects. Individual changes refer to the respective changes that an individual experience. In the process of acquiring knowledge through experiences, the personality of the individual and their behavioural responses may change. Due to most changes in the external environment, the individuals mostly have to learn new things or unlearn old things.
For example, if there is a change of owner of a company, even if the name and the employees remains same, changes occur in the top level of hierarchy which in turn changes the whole management and procedures of running things. Hence, as stated by Cusick (2018), at the individual level, everyone has to adapt to these new changes. Hence, it can be concluded that changes cause a performance dip compared to previous performance in the old scenario which by learning can be improved. To cater this change, financial reward is the best possible way to tackle Apart from that, feedback and social reinforcement can be used to augment the learning process and help mitigate the negative change effect.
Leading change refers to the change in the role of the leaders and focus on different objectives than the regular ones. As stated by Rosenbaum et al. (2018), the key ingredients of leadership are vision, passion and integrity. For example, when a big crisis occurs within an organisation, the company search for a new CEO. An effective CEO then cuts down the costs and improves the productivity to resolve the crisis caused due to change. The company then together follows the new leader and his/her vision to make progress in both short and long term. As suggested by Nicolini and Monteiro (2016), different types of leaders exist namely local line leaders, network leaders and executive leaders, which all play an important role during a desired change in an organisation.
Teams in an organisational framework can be of different types, based on their functioning and goals. Change teams are a special type of teams which is refereed to when there is high proportional change that occurs in a team. As stated by Hammer (2015), the sole purpose of these change teams is to improve team effectiveness. When a change occurs, several functionalities of a team, such as frequency of meetings, ground rules, method to deal with issues and type of review process, come under stress and hence it is needed to discuss these functionalities in due time and...