The causes of resistance to organizational change The role of the individual in and the contribution of the change agent to the occurrence of resistance during change processes. The causes of resistance to organizational change The role of the individual in and the contribution of the change agent to the occurrence of resistance during change processes. Master Thesis Name: Studentnumber: Date: Myrna van Engelen 1941623 6th of October‚ 2010 Business Administration – Management Consulting
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Change is perhaps the greatest competitive challenge that companies face. They feel extremely challenging to embrace it as it is a continuous process having no end. This is because companies keep redesigning and changing their internal organisation and management systems constantly. As Dave Ulrich (1998: p127) mentions: ‘Successful organisations will be those that are able to quickly turn strategy into action‚ to manage processes intelligently and efficiently‚ to maximize employee contribution and
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Managing Organizational Change By Michael W. Durant‚ CCE‚ CPA The increased pace of change that many of us have encountered over the past ten years has been dramatic. During the late 1980s‚ many of us were grappling with issues that we had never encountered. The accelerated use of leverage as a means of increasing shareholder wealth left the balance sheet of some of America’s finest organizations in disarray. Many of our largest customers‚ that for years represented minimal risk and required
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The fact and fantasy of organizational culture management: a case study of Greek food retailing Cardiff Business School‚ Cardiff University‚ Colum Drive‚ Cardiff‚ CF10 3EU‚ UK Abstract The management‚ manipulation or interference in organizational culture has become central to many theories and prescriptions of management. However‚ despite frequent prescriptions to manage culture in diverse national contexts‚ little empirical evidence has been forwarded in contexts other than the UK and
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Organization’s Culture Change Management Organizations are made up of people and their relationships with each one in turn. Changes in procedure‚ structure‚ advances‚ and items don ’t happen on their own‚ and changes in any of these regions include changes in individuals also. Representatives must figure out how to utilize new advances‚ or market new items‚ or work viably in a group based structure. Sometimes achieving a new way of thinking requires a focused change in the underlying corporate
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Organizational Control and Change. Introduction: Organizational control‚ one of four essential managerial tasks‚ is vital for operating an organization in an efficient and effective way. Jones & George define controlling as “evaluating how well an organization is achieving its goals and taking action to maintain or improve performance” (2014‚ p. 11). In the era of hypercompetition every minor disadvantage can cause loss of customers and‚ as a result‚ profit. Control helps determine if the
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Organizational Change Models Grand Canyon University: LDR 615 March 12‚ 2014 Organizational Change Models It is common knowledge by now that change is inevitable. It is everywhere around us. Change can be fun‚ for example when a new version of the iPhone comes out. However‚ when change affects what we do everyday‚ there usually is a lot of skepticism and resistance to change involved. Apple employees were sure to feel enormous pressure as the sales of iPhones skyrocketed. To implement change
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Module 17 of PQHRM is mainly focused on Organizational Development and how it can be changed. Organization development is an ongoing‚ systematic process of implementing effective organizational change. OD is known as both a field of science focused on understanding and managing organizational change and as a field of scientific study and inquiry. It is interdisciplinary in nature and draws on sociology‚ psychology‚ particularly industrial and organizational psychology‚ and theories of motivation‚
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Organizational change must be cared out methodically. Lewin and Kotter offer great models that can be used as guidelines for change (Kanicki & Kreitz‚ 2010). A change agent must focus on affecting the elements of change. From all the elements‚ I feel that people is the most important. Organizational structures‚ processes‚ visions‚ and methods can easily be changed by management. For the changes to be effective however people must accept and follow the changes. The case proposed change in a western
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Week 2 - Process vs. Content Amanda Anderson LDR-625-1634-Leading Organizational Change- March 16‚ 2015 Robert Miller Process vs. Content 2 Working with children takes a certain level of adaptability in itself‚ but‚ working with children in a company that has absolutely no structure is a framework for disaster. However‚ planning for a process or a process-driven change intervention and task alignment for many companies have yielded successful
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