According to Kotter (1996) Organizational change is
the implementation of new procedures or technologies intended to realign an
organization with the changing demands of its business environment, or to
capitalize on business opportunities.
Organizations have to deal with new technology, and
with upgrades for existing technology. They have to cope with reorganizations,
process improvement initiatives, and mergers and acquisitions (Marković, 2008).
Factors
affecting Change Management
Change
management may be affected by a number of challenges. According to Suresh
(2001), these challenges may manifest themselves under different names or other
guises but are essentially the challenges of: LEADERSHIP, FOCUS, COMMITMENT and RESISTANCE.
Leadership involves changing the running of an
organization from a command and control nature of management to the nurturing
and motivational nature of leadership.
Focus is making business choices to bring alignment
and focus to the organization.
Commitment is creating commitment to the future of
the enterprise throughout the organization.
Resistance is a complex entity that directly
affects the outcomes of change, both positively and negatively.
Overcoming any one independently is insufficient
for realizing sustainable change.
Analyzation of these 4 factors will be continued in
next week.
Reference:
Kotter,
J.P. (1996).Leading Change. Harvard Business School Publishing, Boston, MA.
Marković
R. M. (2008). Effective Organizational Change Management. Serbian Journal of
Management, 3(1) 119–125.
Suresh,
H. (2001). Change Management. Must for today’s Organization. Coimbatore: Think
Business Networks Pvt. Ltd.
I think resistance is the biggest difficulty with change management, especially when change touch the cake of benefit. Looking forward to further analysis.
ReplyDeleteYes people do not want to accept change that quick. It takes time.
ReplyDeleteIn the current business environment, there are various challenges associated with the change process. These challenges are experienced at the various levels of the change process. To cope up with current business environment, an organization must redesign, reinvent and keep up to date with uncertain realities. I think focusing on these 4 main factors will really impact on the process of change management.
ReplyDeleteyes..obviously Massive resistance could be taken place on change.This is because majority of employees feel fear to loss of their jobs.
ReplyDeletehi brito, these factors are easily can identify
ReplyDeleteaffecting of change management in organization to achieve its change management process.
and the workforce should work as a team in all manners.
This is a good discussion about the factors influencing changes, however these are largely internal factors influencing the organizations,there are some other external factors such as educational,social, cultural, political, economical & technical factors too influence the change mgnt.
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Brito you taking this deep topic in attractive way. Leaderships is the significant factor for changes management and adaptation. Focus always to must alien with milestone and commitment is much important for positive results. With the term of Changes automatically term comes to mind resistance mean high tendency to changes and low acceptance of changes . Happy to read your next blog to get idea in depth
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