Models of Organizational Change

Some many organizational change efforts fail to reach their intention, but the high-ranking sponsors often blame the disappointment on the employees and manager struggle to change at times. They really don’t know how difficult it is to lead and implement change effectively (Robbins, 2011). A good change does require good people skills. Employees resist change because employees can be very unsure about the loss of status or job security within the organization. This would mean the employees and there manager as well as their peers will resist technological changes. The employees will also endure fear of failure that could cause employees to doubt their ability to do the job/ or their duty. Those type of change employees are resisting because the employees are too worried about learning the new requirements. Peer pressure can be endured as well for employees when the employees start to resist change to protect their co-worker, and so will the manager to protect their work group. The human resources roles are planning and implementation, planning would be evaluation of

This article discusses the pros and cons of advocating change within the workplace. It also discusses the reason (s) individuals are said to resist change because of habit and inertia, fear of the unknown, absence of the skills they will need after the change, and fear of losing power. OD approaches to organizational change pr

It requires a behavioral change to make any transformation successful. For example, the change is more than the structure and the functioning of an organization. It requires a behavioral change to make any transformation successful, and that is never without difficulty. John Kotter’s 8-step change model comprises eight overlapping steps. The first three are all about creating a climate for change. The next on engaging and enabling the organization. And the last, implementing and sustaining change. Kurt Lewin's curiosity in groups directed his research to concentrate on issues that affect behavioral change, and the three stages needed to make the change successful: unfreeze, move, make and

The leadership started the first phase of Lewin’s stages of change by unfreezing the current state that we were in by conveying their need to change the pay structure to match our local competition. (Nahavandi, p.282) The leadership held a meeting to the whole staff by explaining the need for change and why the organization needed to make these changes in order to be successful and compete with the competition. In addition, the leadership conducting a second

Change is difficult because all organizations cultures, structures, mission, and values are unique. As a result, there is not a “blueprint” that leaders can follow to ensure change initiative success. However, understanding the conditions that promote successful change processes is critically important for leaders. If employees do not support

Organizational change process consist of three stages one is unfreezing which is used to create a motivation of change through disconfirmation by causing anxiety in an individual without causing them to use a defensive mechanism related to threat being too high. Instead individual will change behavior. To unfreeze, "We must accept the disconfirming and connect it to something we care about."(Spector 2010) Second phase of change is moving, which allow "members of the group to change from one set of behavior to another"(Schein 2002), such as new job skills, new roles and responsibilities and relationship. According to Lewin's the new behavior must become permanent for a desired amount of time." (Spector 2010) Third stage refreezing is when the person or group achieved new behavior. In order to remain secure against change they must remain in the same group that has changed, otherwise" the behavior is only temporary if the individual or group change."(Schein 2002) For example, of the phases in

Change model is called transtheoretical Model (RHIhub, 2017). Change model crucial to evaluating companies, communities or an individual. The model also clarifies how a business, community or individual can incorporates new management, objectives, and programs at changeable levels (RHIhub, 2017). In which, change model different intervention level are implemented to assist with progress. According to RHIhub (2017), “These stages include:

The purpose of this paper is to identify findings in published peer reviewed articles that provide research-based guidance in the area of leading organizational change. The content of this paper is focused primarily on the reasons and conditions for organizational change and the implementation of organizational change programs and plans. Limitations of research materials are discussed. Most studies provide an examination of a number of variables influencing organizational change, but are not specifically linked to researched based findings to guidance for organizational change leaders and mangers.

Managing organizational change is the process of planning and implementing change in organizations with maximum effectiveness and minimum circumstances and resistance. Today 's business environment requires companies to undergo changes almost constantly if they are to remain competitive. In this project paper I am going to discuss organizational change in PepsiCo. I will take a closer look on management approach and forces for change. I will introduce the change, make diagnosis and discuss how the change can be implemented.

Introducing organisational change is often hard, the main reasons for that can be variation in perceptions of the employees, fear of disruption or failure and underlining the right approach to apply change. Then even if the change in a specific organisation is projected successfully there is still lot to be done to manage it in an appropriate way (Oakland, 2007).

In the 3-step model for successful organizational change, Kurt Lewin argues that successful change in organizations follows 3 steps:

In a recent study of major change, it was found that employees are highly critical of even well thought-out attempts to communicate change and multiple communication channels are preferred when communicating a change vision, plan and process (Elving, 2005;

Organizational change is usually triggered by relevant environment shift, either internal or external, that sensed by companies and leads to intentionally generated response (French, Bell & Zawacki, 2006). This paper will discuss several organization development models..

Many companies emphasize a culture of continuous improvement. While never being satisfied with the status quo can drive

When changes are inevitable, the leaders usually design some adequate steps to make the change go smooth, effective and permanently. Kurt Lewin argued that successful change in organizations should follow three steps: