Planned Change in Organizational Settings
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Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENTOrganizational Change ManagementName of the Student:Name of the University:Author’s Note:
1ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENTChange is the only constant thing that is essential for improvement for the organizations.With time, it is necessary for the organizations to identify and incorporate the changes forimprovement. If the organizations fail to incorporate the changes according to the marketrequirement, it will be difficult for them to sustain in the competitive market. It is essential forthe organizations to identify the changes on a regular basis and judge the need for the change.Upon identification, the organization needs to plan the change, planning mitigates the risk offailure. This essay highlights the concept and types of planned change along with the challengesand significance of planned change for the organizations. The essay also discusses theimplementation of theories and models of planned change. The responsibility of the managers is to bring and incorporate change with a vision ofimprovement for the organization (Mitchell, 2013). Planned change is important for theorganizations to cope up with the continuous changes in different business sectors due to politics,demand of customers and the economy of the country. The concept of planned change isallowing the entire organization to be accustomed with the significant changes for the benefit ofthe organizational goals. As mentioned by Cummings & Worley (2014), planned change isdefined as the application of a structural innovation and deliberate design along with a new goalor policy or changing the existing operating philosophy, climate and style. The aforementionedchanges are brought within the working principles of the organization to conduct businessaccording to the present market scenario and demand. The planned change includes all theaspects of the organizations that are closely related such as technology, structure, people, andresponsibility.
2ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENTImplementation of organizational planned change is a difficult and complex process.Therefore, considerable planning is required for implementing major organizational change. Asmentioned by Lozano (2013), the success of the planned change depends upon the sequentialway the process proceeds. The process of planned change includes recognizing the changerequirement, features that requires change, planning the change, accessing the forces of changeand action for implementing the change. Identifying the need for change is essential, as bringingin change without any reason will hinder the usefulness and necessity of the change (McGarry,Cashin & Fowler, 2012). As identifying the requirement of change provides a clue, this stephelps in analyzing further by identifying the issues due to which change is required. Planning thechange allows the managers to plan how to execute the planned change (Blomme, 2012). Themanagers consider features such as who will bring the change, when to bring the change andhow to bring the change. Assessing the change forces allow the managers to identify the drivingand restraining forces and plan accordingly. After successful completion of the steps, actionsneed to be undertaken to implement the change. As mentioned by Waddell et al., (2013),unfreezing, changing and refreezing are the steps that need to be considered during planning theactions for change. According to Boohene & Williams (2012), planned change within organizations can bebrought in the field such as technology, task, structure, and people. Previously, the use oftechnologies was not highly used and implemented by the organizations. The majority of thetasks were performed and maintained manually. Due to this, the organizations encountereddrawbacks such as mistakes and delay in proceeding with work due to manual labor. With time,the organizations have understood the benefits and requirements of technology for their business.Therefore, recently, all the organizations use technology along with manual labor for conducting
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