Employee Roster Change in Fruit Home Crop

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Introduction
Fruit Homecrop is the fruit enterprise organization that is operating from the past 20
years and it delivers fruits all across Melbourne. Melbourne gives a great opportunity for
supermarkets like Fruit home crop to run for getting the desired outcome. The company
delivers fruits and vegetables in the major markets of Melbourne. The company is running
the business under the new management and it is founded that the organization requires
alterations in their roster department. For keeping up the demands of the local business in
Melbourne, the business maintains close relations with the Victorian farmers. The business
provides a high value, fresh and organic fruit, and vegetables throughout Melbourne.
Project Sponsor
This business project would mainly deal with the employee’s roster of the company.
Therefore the HR manager should be given the position of the project sponsor. The HR
manager is required to make alterations in the employee’s roster.
Project Objectives
Fruit Home Crop has been operating based on the same roster of the employees from
the last few years. The employees of the organization have become too much comfortable
with the roster which affects the effective performances of the employees. The objectives
have to be set and the new effective roster should be set for the employees.
Change Objectives and Principles
The main objective is to set a new roster which includes all employees with their
respective designation. The main objectives are
 Creating a new roster

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 Including all employees
 Looking after companies employee expenses
 Proper legibility of employees has to be checked.
Principles
 All employees are treated equally while allocating rosters
 Unwanted manpower has to be cut down
 Avoiding extra delivery and delayed delivery
 Increase the overall output of the company
Change Plan Elements
Investigate whether current systems and practices can achieve the desired outcome
The desired outcome of any private organization is the increase in its profit earning. This
is because of the very nature of any private business. Their main objective is to provide more
goods and services to the target audience thereby increasing their margin of revenue earning.
In the case of this organization, Fruit Home crop, the profit motive of the managers is
apparent. Thus, in order to achieve this outcome, they have undertaken the responsibility of
making the employees work in a fixed schedule. In other words, the workers have become
too comfortable in their work schedule and this has a negative impact on their work
productivity. As a result, the current system and practices would not prove to be effective in
achieving the desired result.
The proposed change is on the grounds of changing the attitude of the employees.
The people should be motivated to work harder and more effectively in trying to achieve the
profit motives of the company. Moreover, the technology should be improved to the extent
that more fruits and vegetables can be delivered in less time. Change should also be brought
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the morale of the employees and increase the profits earned by the company. For this
purpose, there is a need to change the schedule of the employees in order to enhance their
skill level.
Assess whether the proposed change has the potential to achieve the desired outcome
Identify potential obstacles to the proposed change
The potential obstacles to the proposed change are the attitude of the workers. Since
they are too comfortable in their work schedule, any indication of change will be met with
wide-scale resistance.
Evaluate a range of possible options.
The evaluation of a possible option is to prevent this would take the opinions of the
employees into consideration. Moreover, the managers can help to provide some rewards and
recognition for the employees for their good work
The rationale for the Change
Change in any business is similar to the change seen by us all in our everyday lives.
We constantly face changes in, for example, technology (new mobile phones and software) in
health care (by the introduction of new treatments and medicine) and in the way our language
incorporates words and phrases from for example the languages of new citizens and of youth.
The company has been working on the same roster from many days and stakeholders
think that company’s performances are getting reduced and employees are becoming too
comfortable with their respective works.
What are the risks associated with the change?
The Risk associated with changing of the roster of the employees is that it may not
be to the liking of many employees. As a result, there may be the threat of protest from the

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employees. In the worst case scenario, the managers might even have to face the challenge of
employees leaving the organization.
Key Stakeholder Analysis
Stakeholder Analysis is the first step in Stakeholder Management, an important
process that successful people use to win support from others. Managing stakeholders helps
them to ensure that their projects succeed where others might fail. Stakeholders are the first
ones to notify about the proposed change and data is accumulated. Data is an accumulation of
specific facts which can be gathered, tallied and transmitted. On its own, data does not have
any relevance until it is turned into a more meaningful product. There are three steps to
follow in Stakeholder Analysis. First, identify who your stakeholders are. Next, work out
their power, influence, and interest, so that you know who you should focus on. Finally,
develop a good understanding of the most important stakeholders, so that you know how they
are likely to respond, and how you can win their support.
Who are the stakeholders?
The stakeholders in the case of Fruit Home crop are the managers of the organization
who handle all the important positions within the company. Moreover, the employees who
work in the organization are also the stakeholders as their activity is towards the
improvement of the organization. The customers buying the products of the organization are
the most important stakeholders as without them the company would not have been able to
function.
How do they respond to the change?
The change in the roster of the employees will be beneficial to the managers as the
productivity will increase. Hence, they will behave in a positive manner. However, the
employees would have a negative attitude to the change in their working hours.

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What are they looking for in the change?
Through the change, the managers are looking to improve the productivity level of the
organization. If the productivity of the organization increases then this will have a positive
impact on the revenue earning of the organization, leading to a higher profit margin.
In the change, the managers are looking for an opportunity to increase the productivity of the
workers.
What is the communication strategy used?
The communications strategy used is that of verbal communication. This is important
as verbal communication has a lot of personal scope of reaching to the employees.
What approvals are required to implement the change?
The approval of the employees is required. Since the change in the roster will impact
the work schedule of the employees, it is important that the managers first get the approval of
them in order to minimize the changes of protest and revolt.
Assessment of Readiness to Change
Employees are very much adjusted to the old routine of the roster. Change in this is
not very smooth as some of the employees are not happy to adapt and likes the things old
ways. There are almost inevitably obstacles to change. Even a change with the most
apparently obvious benefits for all concerned is likely to be tripped up at some point. The
more obstacles to change that you can identify and address in advance, the smoother your
change process is likely to be. Effective organizational, communication and interpersonal
skills are very important for a team leader in managing resistance. To increase staff
commitment and accountability, all staff involved should understand and agree on the reasons
for the change, the desired outcomes and the likely impacts of the change.