According to (Tandon‚ 2002)‚ a change agent needs many personal characteristics in order to be successful. The role model of an outstanding change agent is embodied by James Shaw‚ who is described as young‚ ambitious‚ idealistic‚ demanding‚ enthusiastic‚ creative‚ intelligent‚ educated‚ persistent‚ strong-minded‚ as well as naïve‚ inexperienced‚ critical and unrealistic. He seems to have it all. And what his skills portfolio is missing‚ he compensates by building a powerful team around him. By recruiting
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Most people don’t like change because they don’t like being changed. When change comes into view‚ fear and resistance to change follow. People fight against change because they fear to lose something they value‚ don’t understand the change and its implications don’t think that the change makes sense‚ or find it difficult to cope with either the level or pace of the change. Resistance emerges when there’s a threat to something the individual values. The threat may be real or it may be just a perception
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structural issues that promote resistance behaviours in your organization? Q2) Review a recent change in your organization. Can you identify the strategies used to reduce resistance? What other strategies would you use now? Theory Kotter & Schlesinger (2008‚ P.134) demonstrates that the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand and communicating the ideas of change. Ford & Ford (2009‚ P.100) identified that the resistance can be a form of feedback and resource
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Image of change Two key images of managing change are management as control and management as shaping. Management as control is a top down view of the management it motivates the Fayol theory of management which involves activities such as planning‚ organizing‚ commanding‚ coordinating‚ and controlling. Management as shaping is an image which views managing as being about shaping an organization and what happen in it. It also helps in improving the capabilities of people within the organization
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INNOVATION AND CHANGE 31 A. Define creativity. Explain its relationship to organizational innovation. B. Briefly describe the typical pattern of technology cycles that occurs during technological innovation. C. What are innovation streams? Describe a typical innovation stream. D. How are technology cycles and innovation streams related? E. What are creative work environments? What does a manager need to do to develop and manage creative work environments? Provide examples. INNOVATION
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Today’s business environment requires organizations to undergo change almost on a daily basis in order to remain competitive. These changes are typically unplanned and gradual. The content or what to change that I identified in my personal case is the shipping method for service parts that are exported to Europe. This particular type of change is referred to as an evolutionary change which is an ongoing‚ evolving process. The process of changing the shipping method for export service parts is with
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Culture an important part of change management CATEGORY: Change Management Culture an important part of change management 7 CommentsPosted in: Change Management|Tags: Change Management‚ Culture Change‚ Employee Engagement‚ Leadership‚ Performance Management‚ Strategy | By: Torben Rick|March 26‚ 2011 * 240 inShare * * * * * 15 * Email * * * * * * * Email All change in organizations is challenging‚ but perhaps the most daunting
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John P. Kotter’s “Leading Change” is the quintessential book for any organization looking to successfully bring about change in the workplace. As many of us know‚ change is never easy‚ but Leading Change helps by offering a plan of action. Leading Change has been used by many organizations‚ both large and small as a road map‚ to establish new policies successfully and with minimal resistance. The book offers a step by step process to introduce and successfully inplement changes. The book describes eight
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(BRIC Countries). This project would lead to a short-term change in the organization. XYZ‚ Inc.’s plan to expand its business in other BRIC Countries depends on the success of its first international store in Shanghai. The lessons learnt from the opening of first store‚ positive or negative‚ will be applied in the long term expansion of the company in BRIC countries‚ which entails long term changes in the organization. The long term changes for the second phase of international expansion (i.e. in
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Forces of Change Theresa Kenworthy Managing Change February 4‚ 2013 Change in the World as a whole is a certainty. In the business world‚ if a company is to succeed‚ change must not only be accepted‚ but predicted‚ planned for and strategized toward. As creatures of habit many of us fight change‚ preferring to keep the status quo. Inability or unwillingness to embrace change however‚ would be a death sentence to a company trying to make it in business. Our text attempts to define change faced
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