Managing Change in Organizations

Management of
change
2019
Student’s Name
5/8/2019

Managing change 1
With the increasing complexities and the dynamic business environment, it becomes
vital for the organizations to implement changes in the strategies, structures, operational
methods, organizational culture and the technologies to sustain the competitive advantage and
become the market leader. The implementation of changes in the organization allows the
business to attract more opportunities and face the complex challenges of business in an
efficient manner. The major challenge that the organizations face in implementing the
change is the resistance of its workforce to adopt the change (Hayes, 2018).
Resistance to change is considered as the important facet of change management and
is inevitable in nature. It is in the form of overt or implicit. So the organizations cannot
eliminate resistance but can implement the strategies to minimize the hassle. The
organization must convince its workers and must provide efficient training to adopt the
change. They must involve the participation of the employees and specifying the importance
to adopt change (Doppelt, 2017). The following essay is aimed at evaluating various aspects
of change and resistance to change in the modern business organization. The aforesaid
assessment will include various factors leading to change in addition to various change
management theories.
There are variously internal and external factors that develop the emerging need to
implement change in the organization. The internal factors include changing in the
hierarchical structure, communication, and learning. The internal factors are in control of the
organization. The changes in the external business environment develop the need for the
company to hire the new leader who is able to direct the actions of the employees, adopt flat
structure where the employees and a higher level of management can easily communicate and
achieve efficiency in operations (Cameron & Green, 2015). It focuses on making open
communication channels for developing efficiency in the achievement of goals. The
technological changes and competitiveness develop the need to adopt continuous learning

Managing change 2
and train the employees for eliminating resistance to adopt the changes. The external factor
that develops the need to adopt the changes in the organization includes the changing
economic conditions, development and restrictions by the government and the changing
culture and lifestyles of the society. It becomes imperative for organizations to be responsive
to the change in the external and internal factors and develop innovative products and
services to sustain the competitive advantage of the business (Booth, 2015).
The mechanistic view of resistance reflects that resistance is a natural everyday
phenomenon and is inevitable in nature. It specifies that where the movement is involved the
occurrence of resistance is natural. It mechanistic view resistance slows down the movement
and reduces the momentum and velocity. In mechanistic view resistance is considered
neutral; it is neither bad or good nor positive or negative. Resistance is considered natural and
higher the resistance will describe higher the implementation of change in the organization. It
is not exceptional and occurs every day (Salman & Broten, 2017).
The resistance is reflected in the behavior of the employees. Example of such
behaviors includes complaining, destroying of the equipment’s, misplacing of the items, poor
performance of the employees, delays in achievement of goals and late in meetings. Such
behavior of workers lowers the efficiency and decrease the productivity of the organizations.
The everyday form of resistance helps in easy predictions of the behavior and shaping future
interactions. The mechanistic view reflects the ordinariness of resistance in the organization
and the frequency of the changing behavior that affects the performance of the organizations
slows down the momentum and velocity of the organization. The resistance of the workers is
reflected in their everyday behavior however makes it easier for the internal members to
develop the solution to mitigate the effects of resistance and if the resistance cannot be
eliminated the organization accepts it and develop the new solutions for it (Brunsson &
Olsen, 2018).