Importance of Effective Change Management in Organizations

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1. Importance of topic to team
The topic that is chosen for the research is concerning effective change management
techniques in organizations. Organizational change is something which organizations and the
people that are connected with them have to experience quite often. Hence, this becomes an
important topic keeping in mind the rapidly changing business scenarios of the present world.
The MBA skills that are acquired from the course need to be essentially applied in this particular
aspect of management quite frequently. Change management refers to the systematic approaches
through which the necessary changes within organizations are dealt (Bejinariu et al. 2017). It is
concerned with planning, implementing and managing the necessary operational or functional
changes that companies have to make from time to time. Effective change management helps
employees, management and support functions providers of any organization to adapt faster to
the changing corporate situations that affect organizations. The team considers to be an important
topic as this can help to understand the best possible ways through which change can be
managed within organizations. Organizations in the current corporate scenarios are
implementing innovative approaches towards helping their employees better prepared and better
motivated to handle organizational changes. The most effective ways in which change can be
managed will be focused in the main project. This is a topic in which better research is required
as the newer ways of effective change management have not been greatly explored. This topic
was chosen by the team as this can further improve the understanding of all the team members of
the various important aspects of management.

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2. Search for relevant literature
Change management is a function that has become more frequent in business
organizations due to the rapidly changing corporate environment of today. Many previous
literatures on change management have focused towards understanding the relationship between
change management and organizational leadership. Multilevel transformational leadership have
been found to be more effective towards handling organizational changes. Innovative behavior of
members of group was found to be directly related to transformational leadership styles
(Cameron and Green 2015). This in turn improved the change acceptance and change focus of
the members of the groups. The change management theories provided by Kotter are still
considered important by many experts. Kotter provided an 8 step model that helped the team to
understand the context of change management more effectively. The theory is based on creation
of urgency, formation of coalitions, creation of change vision, communication of vision, obstacle
removal, short term wins, building on change and anchoring changes in organizational culture.
The work of Cummings, Bridgman and Brown (2016) helped the team to understand another
important theory, the Lewin’s change management theory. The theory is based on three essential
change management phases of unfreezing, change and refreezing. These older theories can
provide essential insights into the more innovative change management techniques that are
actually based on these. Cameron and Green (2015) through their works have provided essential
insights in to the various types of change management that takes places in the organizations of
today. This particular literature that concerns the subject of change management has been
essentially considered by the team. The most important factor is that the various dimensions of
change management like individual change, team oriented change and organizational change and
change leadership have been much essentially discussed. Most importantly the current