Analyzing Change Management and Recommendations for ExxonMobil

This report provides an analysis of change management at ExxonMobil, focusing on the challenges the company faces in adapting to modern industry demands. It identifies issues such as bureaucracy, disregard for foreign policy, poor environmental management, and a weak organizational cultu...Read More

Change Management at
ExxonMobil
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Executive Summary
 Managing changes in the industry today has been an overwhelmed
topic in the generation of sustainable products and the development
of the community (Strbac, 2008).
 The report is based on ExxonMobil management change.
 This will be mainly to analyze some of the issues faced by the
company and the effective that will help boost the current situation.

Introduction
 The main focus of this report will analyze the lack of continuous
management changes in Exxon Mobil company where it has been
considered as one of the overall management challenges in the
company (Drucker, 2012)
 The objective of this report will be to identify the required
management application in Exxon Mobil company and how to
effectively improve the management strategies of the company.

Background Information
 ExxonMobil is consider as of the largest multinational energies in the
world.
 According the 2017 financial report, the company reported a net
revenue of approximately 19.71 billion dollars (Bartlett & Beamish,
2018).
 The company has approximately over 69,600 employees making it
management as one of the focused energy management corporation in
the world.

Factors affecting Exxon Mobil Management
Change
 Bureaucracy issues such as the mistreatment of employees.
 The disregard most of the American foreign policy such as the
violation of human rights.
 Poor Environmental management approaches.

Continuation
 Poor organization culture.
 Poor prevention measures and control remedies (Starik &
Kanashiro, 2013).
 Lack of effective sustainable approaches.

Issues Anticipated to be Encountered during
implementation of change
 Cost expenditure.
 Poor and obsolete management culture.
 Resistance for change by the senior management (Vivoda, 2009).

Importance of Management change strategy
for ExxonMobil
 The company will be able to enhance its economic growth with also
improvement of the standard measures.
 Improvement of the company public image with increase in social
entrepreneurship (Starik & Kanashiro, 2013).
 Improvement of more quality product assurance.

Recommendation
 Application of quality models such as Total Quality Management
(TQM) and Continuous Improvement (CI).
 Employee engagement, continuous training, and enhanced
remuneration.

Continuation
 Application and improvement of scientific management system.
 Investment in future technology development and sustainability
methods.

Conclusion
 In summary, Despite the dominance of Exxon Mobil in the energy
industry it has been considered to have very poor approaches to
managing changes in its management structure (Dovì et al., 2009).
 With the implementation of the above recommendation, I believe
Exxon Mobil will not only improve its management structure but it
will also be an ‘instrumental’ in economic development and growth
in the energy industry.

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