Organizational Change Management 2022

RUNNING HEAD: ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT
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Organizational Change Management

Organizational Change management
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Organizational Change management
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Change Management
Change Management is a systematic process for managing the new business process in
organization structure within a company and is related to successfully handling the behavior of
people at the time of change1. The successful change management is based on following
characteristics that are ability of leader to implement change, commitment of senior
management, timely communication about need of change, and supporting employees during
implementation. From all of these characteristics the most important and significant is
communication2.
Lewin change model includes three stages that are unfreezing, change and refreezing.
The first stage includes unfreezing of status quo or challenging the current position. The goal of
change agent or leader at this stage is to communicate to employees about need of change and
make employees aware about benefits of change. It is essential for leader to communicate
employees in the organization that change is good for gaining competitive advantage and this can
be done by examining the external forces. Communication is a key at the time of unfreezing
stage so that employees get idea about the change. The aim of communicating about change is to
make employees aware about change process so that they can understand its necessity and
accepts the change and stay motivated during the process of change 3
The next stage is change, employees are aware about change at this stage they start
implementing or accepting change in their routine and business activities. Change can be
managed effectively by making employees familiar with the change through educating them,
communicating with them and support or understand them during change. At this phase,