Reducing Resistance to Change in Oragnization

Organisational change can be described as a process to move the organisation from current status to future state .The purpose maybe to increase productivity, capability, effectiveness and the organization`s ability. Although change is often necessary and important for organizations and individuals in order to survive or to develop. They typically demonstrate resistance to change. Managers have to develop new ideas to overcome this challenge. (Robbins and Decenzo,2008) The other business environment also involve during this process because of some forces or effects that have to be considered on for change. Such as competitive, economic, political, global, social and ethical forces which are called external forces in theory(Jones,2006) The company must be willing to respond to them in an appropriate way and bring or find new alterations to the organization. An example is BP. This company has been dealing with the explosion that occurred on 20 April 2010.(web1) Huge amounts of oil leaked to the ocean and affected all the environment. Such as wild life in the ocean, the coasts and people`s health who lives around the Gulf of Mexico. Environmental effects were not the only problem for BP. There were world problems too. Barack Obama, president of U.S.A. described the problem as `the worst environmental disaster U.S. has ever faced`( web 2) BP`s prestige was at stake. They tried to find technical solutions to reduce the oil leak and its impact. They decided to announce a future change in the CEO, the American would succeed Tony Hayward.(web3) .The understated British approach had not been appreciated in the U.S.A. From the point of view OF BP this action is the consequence of effects of political and global forces. Under global pressure, the BP shareholders realized that having a new CEO will reduce the pressure from foreign influences. It seems BP is facing important facts that they have to cope with. The management with its new CEO are coming up with

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