Change Management in Educational Institutions

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Task 1.....................................................................................................................................1
Reasons for change.......................................................................................................1
Scope of change............................................................................................................2
Change agents...............................................................................................................2
Task 2.....................................................................................................................................3
Organizational readiness for change.............................................................................3
Stakeholder analysis......................................................................................................4
Force field analysis.......................................................................................................5
Effect of existing organizational structure....................................................................6
Identification of key resistance and action plan to minimize........................................6
Task 3.....................................................................................................................................7
Kotter's staged model....................................................................................................7
Lewin change model.....................................................................................................9
Task 4...................................................................................................................................11
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................11
References:.....................................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Change management of an organization can be defined as formulation of some change
which is required by the firm to gain benefits or to solve some existing problems. Change can be
in the form of policies, rules, regulations, norms, structure, working or anything which comes in
operations in an organization (Al-Ali, Singh, Al-Nahyan and Sohal, 2017). Here the organization
chosen here is any educational institution like a school, college, university or coaching. They
have to adopt some changes and the following discussions are made on identification of change
situation such as reason for change, scope of change and change agents involved in it. The
change project analysis such as organizational readiness for change, stakeholder analysis, force
field analysis, impact of existing structure of the company and key resistance and action plan to
minimise the resistance. Implementation of change programme such as applying Kotter's or
Lewin staged model which includes various process and steps for execution change in an
organization. Change plan overview such as overall action plan in a chart format with proper
findings and conclusion in context of any educational institution like XYZ University.
MAIN BODY
Task 1
Reasons for change
There are various reasons that causes change in an organization such as huge crises faced
by the company, they are facing the high performance gap in the market, introduction of the new
technology in the firm, identification of new and innovative opportunities, reaction to the
pressure which are internal or external in nature, impact of mergers and acquisition, to increase
the productivity of the firm by increasing the sales and revenue generations and many more
reasons (Butt, Nawab and Zahid, 2018).
Change situation taken here is the online learning platform for students. Reason behind
implementing such change in the institution is the Covid-19 situation all over the world. Sudden
lock down affected the closed down of educational institution which highly hampered and
destructed the studies of the students. Therefore, change is required in the introduction of the
implementation of new technology among teachers and students so that they are comfortable
using that without any hindrance. Hence, proper training and development is needed to execute
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such change in an organization by teaching them the new technology of online learning while
sitting at home and how they can communicate and coordinate with each other, this is basically
the concept of work from home and study from home using technology at the same time
maintaining an appropriate cooperation among teachers or students so that proper interaction
between them cannot be missed for better implementing the education system at home.
Scope of change
There are various benefits of change management in an organization such as technology
is updating day by day so it is important to implement change in technology to keep pace with it
in this ever changing world, needs and requirements of a person is constantly evolving, dynamic
global economy, change leads to the opportunities for growth and development, it helps in
building up the competition and many more benefits which supports change in an organization
(Cameron and Green, 2019).
Scope of change in educational institution of bringing up the advanced technology due to
home based working and studying are that every one either teacher or a student will be able to
learn new technology and get practical knowledge for the same which will help them in career
and growth. They will be benefited as they will be able to balance their work and life, they will
be independent to the locations, they will be able to save the money of living out or travelling
expenses, teachers and students will be more attentive in taking or giving the learning lessons of
technology using, it can also lead to the attractive studies for the student because of digitalised
notes such as in the form of presentation, animation, videos and in other effective formats as
well, there will the more enhancement in productivity and knowledge among teachers and
students. That is why, this change step is necessary and has a wide scope in future for the
benefits for the students and teachers as well as they will be able to learn that how they can
manage studies and teaching at university location and at home as well by adopting new
technologies.
Change agents
There are various change agents involved in the change management process and they are
divided into two parts that are external and internal agents that are highly involved in the change
management process in an organization. External change agents are those who supports the
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