The Theory Of The Yad Vashem Project

Fincham and Rhodes (2005, p525) define change management as ‘the leadership and direction of the process of organisational transformation – especially with regard to human aspects and overcoming resistance to change’.

Positive leadership is important for effective team performance. Everyone needs to work together and be focused by supporting each other to achieve shared goals. It is very important that each member of the team is clear on their roles and responsibilities. Staff should have respect and understanding for their manager. The manager needs to be aware of the skills and the weaknesses within the team and be able to provide support when necessary. Training and support improves staff performance and develops confidence and team spirit.

Teamwork presents diverse approaches and solutions to tasks and problems within an organization. It is an effective method to ensure that an organization’s tasks are handled and effectively and in a timely manner as opposed to a single-hand approach. Given the myriad reasoning and points of view to a single problem or task at hand, a number of diverse solutions can be achieved through teamwork. As such, it is imperative to keep team members motivated and focused on achieving organizational goal (Baker, Day & Salas, 2006). It should be noted that refocusing and motivating team members towards achieving organization’s goal can be a daunting task. There are a number of tactics that can be utilized by leaders in order to keep team members refocused, motivated and productive.

D., & Pieperl, M. A. (2010). Managing change: Cases and concepts (3 ed.). New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill.

Success of any project depends on the proper communication among the project team members and stakeholders. Communication Management Plan guides each member in the stakeholder list throughout the project.

Change management is designed to ensure the effective transition of an organization and its people from the current to future states, and is about effectively leading and managing individuals, teams and organization to successfully adopt the changes needed to achieve required or desired business results.

The project’s communication plan facilitates daily operations to include internal and external interactions. It identifies priorities, resources, and staff assignments. The goal of the communication plan is to boost responsiveness and participation of the project team members and stakeholders. The communications plan supports the project's communications goals. The communication management plan annotates the information that should be communicated to defined parties. It identifies the party with authority to

Communication is one of the most complicated aspects of project management. There are an infinite number of projects that has failed due to communication within the project team and the project stakeholders. Communication plan, and stakeholder management plan are one of the most important parts of project management. These two plans are the key for the project to complete successfully. There have been many organizations that do not implement or the stakeholder management plan and communication plan for their project.

Week 3, the lecture on Managing Change describes organizational changes that occur when a company makes a shift from its current state to some preferred future state. Managing organizational change is the process of planning and implementing change in organizations in such a way as to decrease employee resistance and cost to the organization while concurrently expanding the effectiveness of the change effort. Today's business environment requires companies to undergo changes almost constantly if they are to remain competitive. Students of organizational change identify areas of change in order to analyze them. A manager trying to implement a change, no matter how small, should expect to encounter some resistance from within the organization.

Lack of communication is a common reason in project failure. Adopting a good communications plan means that project managers must select a model that includes stakeholders and their information requirements, and the methodologies and processes to collect and disseminate the information. The responsibilities of those involved in developing the communications

In order to examine this issue further, this research will look at a number of different sources. Contemporary managerial sources are explored in order to understand how other voices in the field are describing similar methods for change. First, popular structures for change management are examined, especially within their correlation to Palmer & Dunford (2009). This is followed with an extensive

1.1 Change management is described by Armstrong (1) as “the process of achieving the smooth implementation of change by planning and introducing it systematically taking into account the likelihood of it being resisted”. Change, the fundamental constant in any successful organisation, can be adaptive, reconstructive, revolutionary or evolutionary and can happen for a number of diverse reasons:

Change is a common thing that happens all around us on a daily basis sometimes even without us noticing. It can range from family level to international levels, likewise in time frame it can happen on a daily basis, a monthly, yearly or even a decade. In the words of Senior & Fleming (6) Change can be simply defined as process of moving from one state to another. It is this transition that creates distress to the people due to fear of the unknown. We can not stop change but rather we can only manage it. So then what is change management?

From the beginning of the project, everyone involved should establish which means of communication, type, format and the frequency they will need to be updated. Some will want a face to face meeting with a slide show presentation; some will want an email report or in house memos of what is going on and what is needed; some may just want a phone call or video conference to just let them know everything is good and still on track for completion on time.

1.1 The analysis must include consideration of two current schools of thought on change management and how they have contributed to organizational change