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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................31.Report for “White Water Metaphor” is apparent in Shell. Likewise, evaluate whether it hasresulted from planned or unplanned approach to change............................................................32. In the context of Royal Dutch Shell company, evaluate the shift from calm waters tookplace after considering both strategies of business and external factors impacting on thebusiness.......................................................................................................................................53.Theory and its implications for human resource department...................................................8CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................112

INTRODUCTIONChanges are vital in the business environment as no company or industry can avoidchanges. Changes is the process of modifying or changing strategies, technologies, process aswell as on culture. The impact of these changes influenced each and every functions andoperations of the company (Carter, 2015). It is very important that organisation should accessresources and motivate employees in order to build strong platform for the change. To sustain inthe business environment it is very important to lead as well as to manage changes withinorganisation. In addition to this, resistance of changes is one of the biggest challenge thatorganisation have faced. Changes are very important for the continuous development andconsistence growth of the organisation. This present report will discuss about the factors,challenges, opportunities in leading and managing changes whether planned or unplanned. Inaddition to this, Royal Dutch Shell company will be chosen for assessment. It is a British DutchOil and Gas company. Its headquarters are located in Netherlands and United Kingdom. It is oneof the sixth largest oil and gas company in the world. Its revenue is in $305.1 billions in 2017. MAIN BODY1.Report for “White Water Metaphor” is apparent in Shell. Likewise, evaluate whether it hasresulted from planned or unplanned approach to change.Calm Water changes are the view of organisational changes envisions the company aslarge ship is crossing a calm sea. All the crew members and other ship members know exactlythere path where they have to go. Changes occurs in the form of an episodic storm, a smallconfusion in other than calm as well as predictable trip (Yoder-Wise, 2014). Thus, in calm watermetaphor. Changes are seen as an episodic distribution in the normal flow of events. In simplewords, when company is prepared to face as well as to respond such changes are known as Calmwater metaphor. On the other hand, White water metaphor changes are those which are predecided by the organisation and the changes just occurs on random basis. However, thesechanges are not intentionally from the company or industry as these are the changes which areoccurs due to changing environmental as well as uncertainty in the business environment. In thissituation, it is not possible that any organisation can ignore the changes if they want to sustain inthe market. They have to respond to such changes in order to achieve the height of growth andsuccess. However, it is also very important that organisation should be prepared in advancebecause it is sure that changes will definitely occur in the business environment. Business3

environments are dynamic and it is very important that company should be well prepared to faceas well as to respond those changes. Royal Dutch Shell company is also operating in dynamicbusiness environment and they are also aware of the unplanned changes. It is fact that changes occur either on rapid basis or occasionally. When an organisationfaces changes on regular or continuous basis like a raft in a raging river is to managed with thewater rapids. Due to environmental conditions, changes are very frequent. Thus, it is veryimportant that it should be managed in a very systematic manner (Mariani and et.al., 2014).Changes might be planned or unplanned because they are leading of dynamic businessenvironment. Royal Dutch Shell organisation is one of the biggest company in the world, stillthey also face changes as they are also working in the dynamic business environment. In case of Royal Dutch Shell company, a big player in natural gas for many years withthe specified focus on liquefied natural gas. The strategies and plans of action made by thecompany are very effective as they are ready to face all the changes. In 2014, Royal Dutch Shellcompany faced the biggest challenge operating in Nigeria. They had faced the theft of oil,vandalism as well as an attack on the infrastructure of oil in that have resulted in the loss of some100,000 barrels a day during the second quarter. This is one the biggest loss that company hasfaces and they are not planned that this will happen with them. This is the one of the example ofwhite metaphor water as smooth working of the company has been drastically affected by thisloss in Nigeria. Still, Royal Dutch Shell company does not loss their hopes. Thus, in order tocombat or overcome these threats, they decided to revamp there strategy in the nation bydepriving many of its onshore filed rather than focusing on offshore areas, where the threat ofdestruction as well as theft is comparatively low. Therefore, it shows that Royal Dutch Shell hascapacity to make balance in unplanned changes.In addition to this, Another white metaphor change that Royal Dutch Shell company hasfaced in Alaska Operations. They face the heavy loss of $5 billions by the legal as well asregulatory challenges along with equipment failures. The entire operations in Alaska has stoppedas they decided to prepare the tools and equipment and plan for a recommencement of activity ata later stage (Smits and Bowden, 2015). It is not the right decision of Royal Dutch Shellcompany to stop the operations as they would give the regulatory as well as environmentuncertainties. It is fact that, company will not begun its operation before 2025. In order to4

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