Change Management: Planning, Cultural Differences, and Organizational Change

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Part A: Elevator pitches
Elevator Pitches
Elevator pitch for topic 6
Question: How is planning helpful in an organizational context?
My response Posted on (date): Planning will be helping the management in analysing the
different capabilities and competencies of the business while operating in the diverse
markets. Key changes in the structure of the organization are supported through suitable
planning measures that are undertaken by the business. Moreover, suitable planning will be
helping organization in allocating resources like workforce, plant, raw materials and
machinery for the smooth functioning of the processes. Planning helps the management in
understanding the feasibility and potential of their offering as per the market needs. Efficient
planning of the functions helps the organization in preventing situations like cost and
schedule overruns that helps in enhancing the business position in the operating markets.
Suitable planning of the organization helps in maintaining the efficacy of the functions as per
the objectives through optimization of the varied resources and utilization of the same in
order to meet the sustainable approach.
Elevator pitch for Topic 8
Question: How to act in cultural differences and how can it be managed?
My response Posted on (date): Corporate culture plays an important role in maintaining
the efficacy of the workforce. Building on positive corporate culture helps organizations in
mitigating the issues that are faced by the workforce due to cross- cultural conflicts between
the employees and the management. I believe that the management must induce a mutual

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collaborative approach with the employees in order to ascertain the smooth functioning of
the business processes. Moreover, suitable communication with the employees will be
helping the management in maintaining the efficacy of change in the organizational
structure.
Part B: Case discussion activity
Case discussion activity for Topic 11
Case name: Organizational change [adapt or perish]
A case is being enumerated of Cheryl Hailstrom, the CEO of Lakeland Wonders, where the
change that is proposed by her is negotiated on the basis of its appropriateness in the
organizational structure. Cheryl desired to outsource different processes in order to enhance
the efficacy of the deliverables that are proposed by the business. However, the decision
lacked assessment on the capabilities of the business that would have affected the proper
functioning of the systems as per the objectives (Rusly, Corner & Sun, 2012). Suitable
management of the change helps the organizations in maintaining the proficiency of the
functions while operating in the diverse markets. Continuous innovations that are undertaken
by the businesses are dependent on the analysis of the needs of the business and the
capabilities of the same relating to costs, resources and workforce. The issue that are faced
while outsourcing the products and services by Cheryl are dependent on the outsiders’ lack
of adaptation to the model of the business. It has affected the idea of Cheryl to bring forth
radical changes in the organizational functioning and processes. On the other hand, the
induction of the change in the organization would also affect the manufacturing process of

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the same. On the other hand, the change, if implemented on the organizational structure,
might bring forth different market risks.
Lewin’s change management model exemplifies the necessary steps that might be
undertaken by organizations in order to enhance the operations while operating in diverse
scenario. The three steps of the model- unfreeze, change and freeze helps in enhancing the
operations of the business while implementing the change more effectively.
The positive model of the organizational change exemplifies the different stages that might
be undertaken by the firms in order to enhance the operations through proper planning and
designing the innovative approach and thereby inquire about the best practices. The different
stages that are out lined in the model helps the organization in maintaining the efficacy of the
change through impairing suitable knowledge of the outcomes and thereby aligning the
interests of the enterprise with the needs of the same.
The action research model helps the organizations in undertaking changes through the
suitable understanding of the urgency that is faced by the business for modifying in order to
comply with the ever changing business environment (de Waal, 2016). The diagnosis of the
changes that are required by the organization and planning helps the same in maintaining the
efficacy of the modifications. The implementation of the planned action helps the
organization in adhering to the needs of the same related to the sustainable objective.
Resistances form a major part of the change that is planned by the organizational
management (Matos Marques Simoes & Esposito, 2014). As per the case of Cheryl, the
long term vision that was adopted by her to outsource their products to the offshore
organization in order to maintain the proficiency of the same was resisted by the managers of