Employee Participation and Performance Metrics
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Understanding and Leading Change
Table of ContentsIntroduction.................................................................................................................................................3P1: impact of changes in Apple and Atlassian on their strategy and operations..........................................3P2: Evaluate the ways in which internal and external drivers of change affect leadership, team and individual behaviors within an organization................................................................................................5P3: Evaluate measures that can be taken to minimize negative impacts of change on organizational behavior.......................................................................................................................................................6P4: Explain different barriers for change and determine how they influence leadership decision-making ina given organizational context.....................................................................................................................7P5: Apply different leadership approaches to dealing with change in a range of organizational contexts...9References.................................................................................................................................................11
Introduction The process of organizational change is all about the technique to review as well as modify theongoing management structures as well as business processes of the existing company. This ismost needed so as to adapt with the changing business environment and outperform thecompetitors that are affecting the success of the firm. The present study has thus focused onchanges that took place in Apple and Atlassian. Apple is a well-known name in SoftwareCompany that specializes in its designing, developing and selling. As per the research carriedout, Apple has been named as the largest company in IT sector in terms of revenue all over theglobe. It underwent a change in its management when Mr. Steve Jobs was appointed as aninterim CEO so as to bring the firm back from the brink of bankruptcy (Dudovskiy, 2013). Thesecond change management to be discussed is in Atlassian which is also a software firm that isspecializes in developing of tracking software. The firm has around 85000 consumers in theworld and is known for its honest business, amazing work culture and consistent growth. Itunderwent a change in its performance review system that was previously decreasing the moraleof employees (Groen, Wouters and Wilderom, 2017). The current study has thus laid emphasis on carrying out a discussion about a change that tookplace in both the organizations and how it impacted the overall operational working as well asstrategic framework of the company. This will be followed by carrying out an analysis withrespect to the internal as well as external drivers of change and there overall effect on leadershipstyle, team working and employee behavior within the company. Last but not the least, a studywill also be done on the barriers that impacted change process and how they can reduce them tothe minimal. P1: impact of changes in Apple and Atlassian on their strategy and operations. Change is inevitable in any organization but it has been found to put an impact on the overallworking of firms. This is especially true for large sized and multinational companies such asApple and Atlassian that underwent a drastic change. Change in leadership of Apple – Apple Inc. is a number one IT company of the world withrespect to revenue but had faced quite tough times during 1996 when its product line being Macwas not so successful. Issues further arose when an attempt was made to recreate the mac
operating system (Sherman, 2014). This was also a crucial time for Apple as it was near to thestage of bankruptcy and was devoid of any innovation which could have taken the companyforward. A large amount of investment was made in the research and development activities butthe actions were lacking any major output. It was during this time that Mr. Steve Jobs joined thecompany as an interim CEO. The firm under his management was able to receive an investmentof 150 million dollar from Mr. Bill Gates who was the principal founder of MicrosoftCorporation. This money was utilized by Mr. Jobs in carrying out advertising activities in orderto highlight the saleable product offerings of Apple. He further started working on the ideologythat the company needed new products that were wanted by the customers and the ones to appealthe mass market (Faas, 2011). Hence, Macintosh series was removed from the market and iMacseries was launched. This resulted in a much needed boost that was wanted by Apple since a longtime. IT happened as the company sold around 800000 units in its first five months. With hisideas and creativity and the ones instilled in the team members, iMac became one of the bestpersonal computer of the world and also had a presence of new OSX to support it. A revolutionwas all brought with the launch of iPod and iTunes (Change Management Lessons fromMicrosoft and Apple, 2018). All this was made possible because of a visionary leadership styleadopted by Mr. Steve Jobs that not only saved Apple from bankruptcy but also made it as thegreatest innovation firms of the world. Change in performance review system of AtlassianAtlassian till the year 2011 was adhering with performance review system whose basis wastraditional rating and was done on a biannual basis. The approach was not giving good results asemployees felt unhappy because there performance was not reviewed on a frequent basis. Thesystem instead of inspiring the employees to increase performance was leading to anxiety anddemotivation (Hansen, 2018). Hence the management team during the year 2011 removed theexiting process and replaced it with a one that was more continual and less numeric in nature.Increased emphasis was given on monthly performance review through one on one meetingsession with the concerned person. This resulted in an overall shift with respect to corporateculture; increase in overall employee satisfaction as well as more productivity amongst the teams(Failure to Perform, 2016). After this change, the company became a proud owner of Trellowhich was a company worth of 425 million dollar. As of now it has been regarded as one of thefastest growing tech company in the world.
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