Organizational Innovations and Resistance - Assignment

Running head: ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATIONS AND RESISTANCE
ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATIONS AND RESISTANCE
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ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATIONS AND RESISTANCE1
Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Discussion..................................................................................................................................2
What is the problem?.............................................................................................................2
Why organization should innovate?.......................................................................................3
Process of innovation.............................................................................................................3
Challenges..............................................................................................................................4
Prior before the change take place.........................................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATIONS AND RESISTANCE2
Introduction
In order to survive in the competitive market an organization has to develop some
strategies, which will make it sustainable in the market. One such strategy is merger with
another organization to gain cost effectiveness, competitive advantage and penetrate easily in
the market. However, during this merger the employer faces several resistance from the
employees, which slows down the change and integration of firms. In this report, two sectors
of a business organization performing similar functions are merged with each other and the
resistance faced by the organization along their solutions is illustrated. The report is
structured in one single section starting with the problem faced by the organization, reason
for innovation, process of innovation applied, challenges faced during innovation, prior to the
change taking place and ending with the solution for the resistance.
Discussion
What is the problem?
An organization has two different sectors performing different functions. One of these
two sectors is responsible for providing scholarships to students from within the country and
another sector is responsible for providing scholarships to students who come from abroad.
Both the sectors have separate operating systems, finance department, human resource
departments and information technology departments. When seen from monetary point of
view, the cost of operating these sectors is alarming. The senior management team considers
this as an idle investment and exploitation of resources. Functions of both the sectors are
similar to each other such as managing the data and information of the students, maintaining
interpersonal relationships with the employees, managing employee’s payroll accounts and
providing salary that causes the exploitation of resources. Therefore, the most important
objective of an organization is to recognize and remove duplication of functions, which will