Lecture Notes On Implementing Tactical Change

forms of power are certainly more effective than others. The key to realizing power most

Gaining power is something that our species has evolved to strive for. Throughout history man has always tried to gain power in some way, but gaining power is not an easy task and while gaining power is something that is core to all of human desire it is reached in different ways. Some gain power through war, economics, politics, and some power is inherited, but regardless of how power is gained, all power has to be maintained and how it is maintained is the real argument because the ways of gaining power that we explore have already happened and were successful in giving power to people but the ways the power is maintained is what makes one successful or not.

As a result, Zwick (2002, p. 542) has noted that implementing change programmes in organisations that realise positive outcomes remain problematic for many organisations in the 21st century. Ayodeji & Oyesola (2011, p. 235) have postulated that organisational change is a dynamic process, which when taken poorly contribute to employee resistance to it, and eventually leads to failure of the whole process. 3|Page Organisation Behaviour; MGTS 1601; Individual Essay; Employee resistance to change Yuanli Zhang 43401163 Employees resist changes when they occur in the organisations for several reasons. Many organisations when they introduce changes are likely to stick to the ‘top-down organisational change’ process (Awasthy, Chandrasekaran & Gupta, 2011, pp.

Power is the ultimate goal of many throughout their life. If power is taken advantage of it

Power is the ability to control people in their actions. It gives you leverage over others. Power is like a drug, the more we have the more we want. Power makes people think their unstoppable. Our history proves how power corrupts people.

There are several power types and power bases to consider, but I will describe more those powers that, in my opinion, should increase and extend my current power. By my nature I don’t prefer any power that would encourage any kind of violence as bases for power, any power that would suppress authentic communication and shared decision-making process.

Often you see or hear about many people who are a little bit greedy or power hungry. Whether it’s just in a political debate, a sports outing, or just in your very own house. Often family members fight for power as well. Brothers and sisters will fight over the ‘shotgun’ seat. This connects to the idea of power because having the best seat in the car makes you feel like you have control, therefore having power. In many cases, pieces of literature use this same idea. That no one likes to lose. Everyone likes to be a winner, everyone likes to have power. For example, in House of Scorpion, by Nancy Farmer, Farmer uses many examples in which two characters fight for power. House of Scorpion is set years in the future, it is about a clone named

The more active the participants are in the planning, the less resistance there will be later (Sullivan & Decker). If staff does not trust leadership, does not share the organization's vision, does not buy into the reason for change, and aren't included in the planning, there will be no successful change, regardless of how brilliant the strategy (Goman, 2000). How people react to change is important to understand. Change takes an emotional toll on people, some more than others. It is important not to underestimate that toll and understand who will have a harder time adapting to change. Fear of change has many roots. Those roots can be a lack of trust, fear of failure, fear of loss of income or a belief that the change is unnecessary (Sullivan & Decker). By understanding the reason for the resistance a manager can help the employee overcome his or her fear and become a supporter of the change. The last two steps are to provide feedback mechanisms to keep everyone informed of the progress of change and evaluate the effectiveness of change (Sullivan & Decker). People need to be kept informed of the change process to minimize anxiety. Sometimes there are unexpected consequences to the change, and it is important to have a system in place for those consequences to be discussed and if needed more changes made in order to accommodate those consequences.

Why does a person want power? Is it important to their life? In our understanding, the power is the capability to demand or control others over. Human always seeks power in ruling over a community of people or a group of members of being the satisfaction of ones superior. The reason why is partly because the present world doesn’t wont provide the opportunities of being someone’s superior, but also because of the ambition.

Power is usually defined as the ability to achieve a desired outcome, i.e. to ‘do’ something. The concept of power is normally defined of by the legislature in a rational sense, having power over others. There are three dimensions of power: decision making power, non-decision-making power and power as thought control (Buse et al 2005).

Power is earned by taking consideration and thought into protecting something or taking responsibility, people tend to mistreat this thought very commonly. What would you do, would you become curative ? In the story "The Tempest" written by William Shakespeare developed ideas to describe the struggle for power. The story begins with a violent storm causing them to become shipwrecked, which caused them to become in need of somebody to take responsibility and of course there is Prospero. They all soon became curative with all the chaos in action.

Do you think everyone should have power?Do you know what power is?If power didn’t have control over something then power would not exist. Do you hate when people tell you what to do.I know I hate that.I want to do something without getting told no.Many of people want power because they want autonomy. “People would think this would be the appeal, to be able to control things to change them to change them to fly vision of reality”.

Power and politics have always been around but seldom openly discussed. Power is learned at an early age through family and schools. Ordinary people such as scholars hesitate to talk about power. It is often equated with force brutality, unethical behavior, manipulation, connivance, and subjugation.

The power that the guardians acquire is highly desired yet no one necessarily requires it. Once power is obtained it is abused greatly.Power isn’t something that is effortlessly attainable so why is it desired by everyone? How will they utilise this power after they grasp or get hold of it? Many gain the power and abuse it so is it wise to let a

The lust for power goes back to the ancient times and has always shown that power is addicting. Besides love and hunger, it’s the most influential impulse in a person. We strive for power and even though it’s an unsociable trait, we push further to get as much power as we can. Power is associated with selfishness which draws all attention to one subject or person. Even in the past power was gained by torture, pain and taking it from anyone that had it before them. History has shown that time and time again there has been one trend, which is the fall of power. Rulers get corrupt, people get greedy and want more power and in the end they fall and lose what power they had.