The Change Process and Lewin’s Theory “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” - Mahatma Ghandi “If you want to truly understand something‚ try to change it.” - Kurt Lewin This learning activity is intended to provide learners with the opportunity to: • Describe the importance of change and appreciate its nature • Explain key factors in management of change • Discuss the source of resistance to change and the ways this resistance can be overcome • Play a leading role in initiating
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unplanned outcomes and the inability to achieve goals. If organizations would practice by the three steps in Lewin’s change theory‚ a planned change could bring about a positive result. The three steps are the unfreezing phase‚ the moving phase and the refreezing phase (Spector‚ 2010). The unfreezing phase is when you find a problem that needs to be solved. Then you try to determine if
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People resist change. Businesses resist change. Today’s business world is highly competitive and the only way to be successful is to conform to the ever-changing needs of the consumer‚ which means change. To resist change in this day and time is a guaranteed ride to failure or meager success. Businesses should always be in some stage of reshaping in order to keep up with the ever-changing wants and needs of the consumer. The consumer is the #1 priority of a business; without consumers there is
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Understanding and Coping with Change For many years‚ the world of business has experienced an increasing rate of change. Alvin Toffler (1970) predicted the trend several decades ago. Toffler also noted that people exhibit a natural tendency to resist change. This resistance to change is a major organizational challenge that organizations must learn to manage. As individuals respond to change in different ways‚ and as variations in responses produce different outcomes the recognition of this resistance
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Kurt lewins change model Its not the strongest of the species that survive nor the most intelligent ‚ but the one most responsive to change. (Charles Darwin) Change management has been defined as ‘the process of continually renewing an organization’s direction‚ structure‚ and capabilities to serve the ever-changing needs of external and internal customers’ (Moran and Brightman‚ 2001) .According to Burnes (2004) change is an ever-present feature of organizational life‚ both at an operational and
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Implementing Organizational Change A theory that has been used as a model for implementing change in organizational settings is Kurt Lewin’s theory of planned change (as cited in Hall‚ 1997). The three phases identified in Lewin’s change process include “unfreezing‚ moving or changing‚ and refreezing” (Hall‚ p. 240). The model is used to assist the organization to overcome obstacles and bring about effective change. Lewin’s model (as cited in Hall‚ 1997) is ideal for implementing change at the XYZ Plant
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the situation. Our manager used an authoritarian leadership style and did not include the staff in any discussion prior to letting us know about these drastic changes. I believe that the autocratic leadership style in this instance did not use the unfreezing step to prepare the staff for these changes in order to have a more positive
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them in the process (2007). Additionally‚ Lewin identified three distinct phases of change. During the first phase‚ unfreezing‚ the equilibrium of the current environment needs to be disrupted. Ford explains that for change to be successful‚ the forces that encourage change need to be stronger than those that support resisting it (2009‚ p. 305). Spector remarks that unfreezing behavior requires more than just stating the need for change. The organization must enlist the help of the staff in discovering
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get a better understanding of this process is to use Kurt Lewin unfreeze‚ change‚ and refreezing model. This is based on the analogy of melting a block of ice‚ and then refreezing it into a new shape. The first stage in Kurt’s model is unfreezing. During the unfreezing phase‚ “all factors that may cause resistance to change are considered. Other people that could be affected by the change are sought out to determine whether they recognize that a change is needed and to determine their interest in participating
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process typically requires three steps: unfreezing‚ moving‚ and refreezing. UNFREEZING Unfreezing might be accomplished by introducing new information that points out inadequacies in the current state or by decreasing the strength of current values‚ attitudes‚ and behaviors. Crises often stimulate unfreezing. Examples of crises are demographic shifts in population‚ a sudden increase in employee turnover‚ a costly lawsuit‚ and an unexpected strike. Unfreezing may occur without crises as well. Climate
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