Reflective Essay on Managing Organization and Leading People

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Topic: Reflective essay on Managing organization and leading
people
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Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Reflection on Managing organisation and leading people 3
Conclusion 7
References 8

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Introduction
This study is mainly based upon the explanation of reflective experience that I have faced while
working in an organization. The instances of my working in the Nokia organization shall be
mentioned here. The change management that had been taken in the company shall be provided
as the theme of the study. On basis of theme, the sentences of change management, the
experiences gathered from it and things learnt by me from those shall be pointed out various
parts of this whole study. Various theories of change management shall also be applied and
mentioned here in order to proper explain the things that have taken place in the Nokia company
while I had been working there.
Reflection on Managing organization and leading people
Describing Change Management objectively:
Change management can be said to be a rapid kind of change that is brought forth in an
organization in order to guarantee its existence in the market. Change management takes place
due to rapid change in technological aspects, management aspects, crisis, review of processes,
change in customers’ preferences, mergers and acquisitions, competition from new rivals and
restructuring of the organization. Nokia has seen one of the biggest companies in the smartphone
market. Founded in 1865, it became the leaders of the mobile phones during the late 1990s and
early first decade of the 2000 (Mutuku & Mathooko, 2014). This was due to change and
acceptance of high level of technology used and maintained in the organization. However, soon
enough, due to high competition from rivals such as Samsung and Apple, Nokia failed to
properly service. A high need of restructuring of management was necessary in order to ensure
the survival of the company in the market. The whole management department was changed,
new CEO was elected in order to take up the rudder of the company (Peltonen, 2019). The
company recruited many highly experienced and skilled people and brought in investment and
incurring of high technology. The ownership of the company was also transferred to Microsoft,
which took many steps to revive the health of the company. Slowly and slowly, the company
started to get back its older platform and at present, the company is present in the market and
giving a tough competition to the other cell phones and smartphone sellers with good quality
products and latest technology used in their devices (Birkinshaw et al. 2016). The change in
technology, management and executive body, change in ownership led to an outright and big