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Organizational Change Management (OCM)

   

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1ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENTIntroduction The current business scenario is much more challenging and complex for thecontemporary business organizations. This is due to the reason that contemporary businessorganizations mainly operates in the global market and global business scenario is havingdifferent factors for consideration. On the other hand, the increase in the competition in theglobal market is also forcing the business organizations to change their existing business strategyand make it more effective according to the present market situation. Moreover, it is also to benoted that current market scenario is frequently changing in nature and it is becoming difficultfor the business organizations to cope up with the market and business change. One of the major strategies that are being initiated by the contemporary businessorganizations in meeting the current business requirements is initiation of the changemanagement. This policy refers to the implementation of the change in the existingorganizational policy and initiating new policies to better coping up with the present businessscenario. In the current time, there are number of real world examples emerged where businessorganizations have implemented change management. Some of these initiatives succeeded whilesome others got failed. Number of reasons is identified behind the failure of the changemanagement process, which are also terms as barriers to the implementation of theorganizational change process. This report will discuss about the potential and most common barriers in implementingthe change management in the organization. In addition, the steps that should be initiated inorder to overcome the barriers will also be discussed in this report.

2ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENTProbable challenges in organizational change management One of the major challenges that can get emerged in implementing the changemanagement in the organization is managing the diversified teams. This is due to the reason thatin the current business organizations, employees belongs from different social and culturalbackgrounds. All these employees are having different set of requirements and expectations intheir workplace. Thus, it becomes difficult for the management to fulfill the diverse requirementsof the employees in one go. According to Nielsen and Nielsen (2013), implementing change inthe diversified workforce is one of the major challenges for the management. This is due to thereason that change management is initiated in the organization with some particular approachesand objectives. Thus, according to the authors, it is not possible for the management to fulfill allthe requirement of the diverse employees with the initiation of the particular change managementpolicy. Thus, the set of employees who will not get satisfied with the approach of the changemanagement will cause issues with the organization. This will lead to the ineffectiveness of thechange management plan and will cause failure for the entire process. However, on other hand, itwill also not be possible for the leadership team to consider the diverse criterions in designingthe change management program. It is a huge challenge for the leadership to meet all the diverserequirements of the diverse set of employees. Lack of organizational capability Change management refers to the transition of the new policies over the older ones.However, changing of the older system and processes will require enhanced organizationalcapability for the management. In this case, there are various challenges that may get faced by

3ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENTthe management in having the favorable organizational structure and capability. One of the majorchallenges is the requirement of capital for investment in the new processes. Large businessorganizations are having the opportunity to invest more in changing the existing businessprocess, for the small and medium business organizations, it will be difficult to invest in havingproper infrastructure for the change management. According to Ardalani, Houy, Fettke and Loos, (2013), a certain cost is involved ininitiating the change management. Moreover, business organizations will have huge requirementof capital due to the reason that the initiation of new process in the organization will requiretraining for the associated stakeholders, changing the organizational infrastructure and havingresources for the new systems. Thus, according to the authors, it will not viable for the all theorganizations to incur huge cost in the initiation of the change management. Organizations willface the challenge in regulating the cost in the initiation of the change management. Lack of consensusLack of consensus is another issue that can get emerged in the implementation process ofchange management. This is due to the reason that in the majority of cases, change managementinvolves stakeholders from the upper level management to the lower level employees. Thus,huge number of stakeholders is being involved in the change management process and it ischallenging to generate consensus from all of them. Moreover, due to the fact that in the currentbusiness scenario, business organizations operate in larger section and thus they are having moreassociated stakeholders with different vested interest in the change management process. According to Wibowo and Deng (2013), creation or building of consensus is important inthe decision making process. Thus, in the implementation of the change management plan,

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