Lead and Manage Organisational Change

LEAD AND MANAGE ORGANISATIONAL
CHANGE
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Q1. EXPLAIN THE CHANGE MANAGEMENT PROCESS OR CYCLE AND
STRATEGIES FOR COMMUNICATING AND EMBEDDING CHANGE
Change management plays an important role in the enhancing the efficiency and productivity of
an organization. Change management process refers to the sequence of activities that can be
followed to apply change management. There are different elements of change management
process which plays an important role in successful implementation of the change. Change
management process completes into different steps. The steps of change management are
identification of the change, managing the change and reinforcing change. Identification of the
change is initial stage of change management in which organizations understand the need of
change and identify the change. After the identification of the change a company manage
change the efficiently. In this stage a company develops change management plan and take
action to implement it. Reinforcing change is the final step of process of change management in
which a company collects the analyse feedback and implement corrective actions (Burke,
2017).
It is imperative for a company to develop effective strategy for communicating and embedding
change. An organization should consider all the factors which can affect the implementation of
the change. Clarity, commitment, capability and sustainment are the crucial element which
should be considered by an organization to communicating and embedding change.
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2. WHAT PROVOKES ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE?
There are different factors that provoke the organizational change. Key elements that provoke
the organizational change are:
 Competition
 Technology
 Desire for growth
 Need to improve progress
 Government regulation
All the above mentioned factors provoke an organization to apply change. Increasing
competition is also responsible for the adoption of change. In modern scenario, technology
plays role of game changer in corporate world. Technological advancement influences the
business operation to a great extent. A company who wish to attain growth adopts different
changes to enhance its market share and profitability. A company might need to adopt new
changes to enhance the efficiency and eliminate waste. Government regulation can also
provoke the change. The changes in the governmental rules and regulation also can drive the
change in an organization (Cameron and Green, 2017).
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Q3. IN ORDER TO MANAGE ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE, ONE SHOULD
CREATE A CHANGE PROJECT CYCLE PLAN. EXPLAIN EACH COMPONENT
OF THE CYCLE
A change project cycle plan is very important to manage organizational change. A change
management plan consists of different organizational elements which are essential to
implement the change in an organization. The key element of change project cycle plan is
initiation, planning, execution and control. In initiation step, the changes is identified which can
be implemented to achieve better results. Planning is also an crucial element of project cycle
plan. In this step a company also identify the different factors that can influence the outcome of
the plan. Planning phase of change project cycle plan also includes the risk assessment in
addition to defining criteria required for successful accomplishment of different task. Execution
and control is the final step of controlling plan. In this step a company execute the plan in order
to implement change to enhance the efficiency. Monitoring and controlling of then plan is done
to understand the effectiveness of the plan and to improve it to achieve better results (Doppelt,
2017).
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