Organizational Behaviour | Case Study Report

Running Head: ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Kotter’s model of change.................................................................................................................3
Create a sense of urgency............................................................................................................3
Create guiding coalition...............................................................................................................4
Create a vision for change...........................................................................................................4
Communicate the vision..............................................................................................................5
Remove obstacles........................................................................................................................5
Create short-term wins.................................................................................................................5
Consolidate improvements..........................................................................................................6
Anchor the changes......................................................................................................................6
Gantt chart.......................................................................................................................................7
Communication channels.................................................................................................................7
Personal communication..............................................................................................................7
Advantages..............................................................................................................................8
Disadvantages..........................................................................................................................8
Electronic communication...........................................................................................................9
Advantages..............................................................................................................................9
Disadvantages..........................................................................................................................9
Proposed leadership model..............................................................................................................9
Addressing the issues.....................................................................................................................10
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................10
Reference.......................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
Organisational behaviour in the modern business set up is considered to be one of the
complex but significant aspect because the success of the organisation somewhat depends on the
satisfaction of the employees. Bow Valley Energy is belonged to the oil and gas service sector
that acquires a rival company named Elbow River Energy. After acquiring the company, Bow
Valley Energy faces severe challenges in facilitating a better organisational culture and convince
some of the employees from both the organisation to accept the change.
In response to this, this report is going to focus on the changing process of Bow Valley
Energy and the communication channels that the organisation must introduce in order to
convince and incorporate all the employees. Moreover, the relevant leadership style of
transformational leadership is also being discussed in the report in order to understand the entire
change process in the organisation.

3ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
Kotter’s model of change
Table 1: Kotter’s model of change
(Created by the author)
Create a sense of urgency
Change management is a dynamic concept that requires proper understanding of the
practice and positive intent of the organisation. However, the most important part is to identify
the need for the change. According to Brock, Peak and Bunch (2019) the 1st step of Kotter’s
change model is associated with the identification of problem. As a preparation stage, the sense
of urgency stage figures out the potential problems that the organisation is facing. In case of Bow
Valley Energy, the issue of the company is changing its organisational culture. Previously the
organisation enjoyed a decentralised organisational structure where each of the executives enjoys
autonomy in decision making. However, after the acquisition management decides to make theCreate sense
of urgency
Create sense
of urgencyCreate
guiding
coalition
Create
guiding
coalitionCreate a
vision for
change
Create a
vision for
changeCommunicate
the vision
Communicate
the visionRemove
obstacles
Remove
obstaclesCreate short-
term wins
Create short-
term winsConsolidate
improvement
s
Consolidate
improvement
sAnchor the
changes
Anchor the
changes