Change Management Report: Sun Microsystems' Strategies and Models

This report provides an in-depth analysis of Sun Microsystems' change management strategies, focusing on their multi-faceted approach to simultaneously enhance employee productivity and minimize carbon emissions. The report delves into the company's initiatives, including restructuring work environments, implementing flexible work arrangements, and utilizing technology to improve communication and efficiency. It explores the application of Lewin's change management model (unfreezing, moving, and refreezing) within Sun Microsystems and examines various leadership models, such as autocratic, transactional, charismatic, and democratic approaches, to determine their impact on the change process. The report also highlights the expected gains from these strategies, including cost reduction, increased customer loyalty, and improved operational efficiency. Furthermore, it discusses the broader implications of Sun Microsystems' actions, including the impact on competitors and the evolution of business practices within the technology sector.

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Executive summary
This report will talk about the multi-pronged approach of Sun Microsystems to simultaneously
improve the productivity of employees and carbon emissions for the business to gain the
competitive advantage and increase the loyal base of customers. Organization work to store the
files within the central remote server. It will generate the more options to access the file in an
effective manner. It has also worked to redesign the space of floor which will work to increase
the productivity level. Further discussion covers those improvement approaches of business to
improve the outcome.

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Table of Contents
Executive summary.....................................................................................................................................1
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................3
Principles.....................................................................................................................................................3
Expected gains of Sun Microsystems..........................................................................................................4
Examples.....................................................................................................................................................5
Change management models.......................................................................................................................5
Unfreezing...............................................................................................................................................6
Moving....................................................................................................................................................7
Freezing...................................................................................................................................................7
Leadership and management models...........................................................................................................8
Leadership with autocratic model............................................................................................................8
Leadership with transactional model.......................................................................................................8
Charismatic leadership............................................................................................................................8
Leadership with democratic model..........................................................................................................9
Conclusion...................................................................................................................................................9
Bibliography..............................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Sun Microsystem known as the Silicon Valley based multinational American organization. It
sold components of computer, computers, services of information technology, and made
language of Java programming, operating system of Solaris, network file system, and ZFS. It has
contributed to the evolution of many computing technique among them thing client computing,
UNIX, virtualized computing, and RISC processors. In 1982, Sun Microsystem was founded on
former west campus of Agnew’s development center. In 2009, organization announced that
Oracle Corporation acquired the organization in US$ 7.4 billion. Deal of acquisition was
completed on 2010. Products of the organization included servers of computer and workstations.
The company also developed own systems of storage and suite of software products that include
Solaris operating system, software of web infrastructure, and applications of identity
management. The following discussion will cover the expectations from the best practices and
management models to improve the situations and outcome.
Principles
The best practices principles that are being witnessed within the Sun Microsystem are regularly
looking forward to improve the culture of work through increasing productivity at the similar
time. This will be effective to meet the changes within the government regulations that have been
implemented. Sun Microsystem policies will enable the business to build on many fronts.
Improvement within the productivity will help Sun Microsystem to achieve the objectives. The
objective of business is to improve the culture of work. Organization is looking forward to
provide the flexible hours for working in which employees have the freedom and leverage to act
within the responsible manner.
It will help to increase the productivity as increase the satisfaction level of employees. This
organization has also changed the entire structure which enables the employees to communicate
within the organization in a better and improved way (Militaru, and Zanfir, 2012). This will also
help to minimize costs and enable the business to increase the efficiency and enhance the entire
process of business. Sun Microsystem for government rules and regulation is aiming to improve
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This organization is also working to abide with better strategies to minimize carbons footprints
which generated by the organization. It has presented the positive result as organization was
capable to ensure that it was capable to minimize the targeted carbon before the 2012 deadline.
Overall approach of Sun Microsystem is to provide benefit to customers and society that will
benefit to their business and ensure the more effective and efficient opportunities for the growth.
Changes that Sun Microsystem is looking to bring within the culture of work will have the direct
bearing of employee’s motivation which will have the effect on productivity. Organization is
looking forward to redesign structure and location by ensuring that employees are enough
capable to access the concerned people easily. It will help to save the precious time that can be
used within the other work to expand the whole business (Dunn, Kogut, and Short, 2012). The
company is also embracing an approach that will help to cut or minimize the cost through
switching of computers, air conditioners, minimizing travel, and many other things to cut down
the cost.
Expected gains of Sun Microsystems
It will have the relevance for the company as help to minimize cost but at similar time period
minimize the carbons footprint that will benefit in carbon trading. This kind of approaches will
support to spread the awareness regarding the positive steps which organization has taken for
society and help to attract the many section of society and become capable to increase faith
within the style of working of business (Schafer, 2018). The entire strategy of business will help
to achieve operational efficiency and benefit the organization from different directions.
This will help the business to certify that they assistance from diverse areas and become enough
capable to look after the environment and gain support from different quarters that will ensure
and improve the opportunities for business regarding bright full future. It will also support to
have pool of loyal base of customers and develop the whole business to achieve big results
(Sriram, Ganesh, and Madhumathi, 2013).
It will enable to improve the system availability and uptime by minimizing the incident costs and
volume. The organization becomes more capable to improve and deliver the risk analysis
services to customers. It will increase the commitment to serve customers more effectively at

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global level. New architecture designs will help businesses to improve the associate class and
knowledge to solve the particular issues. This also provides a predictive and proactive
prescription regarding potential issue. The company will become more capable to create and
enhance the capability to appropriately identify issues and recommend the solutions within an
effective and timely manner (Phillip, 2014).
Examples
The rapid growth of Sun Microsystems will affect the other organizational environment. Other
competitor organizations will also like to change the process of doing business. Technological
changes done by Sun Microsystems will increase uncertainty and competition within the market
for other competitor organizations. Changes are very fast as market cannot stabilize.
Organizations will look forward and respond to changes in many ways. Other businesses will
also try to develop and established the similar techniques and improve their organizational
complexity to monitor and enforcement of changes.
Business groups and many other professional organizations will also work on new values
(Appelbaum, et al., 2012). Organizations will work with the specialists employees’ and
categorize activities to increase the efficiency of operations. Companies will develop new
techniques and make the services and products similar to regularly support the demand for
novelty.
Changes done by the Sun Microsystems will improve their position within the market and help to
stand out from competitors. Competitors will also like to copy and apply the same strategies and
techniques to gain the more market share and customers base.
Change management models
Change is known as the common thread which runs by all businesses regardless of age, industry,
and size (Pindyck, 2013). World is regularly changing very fast and businesses also required to
change quickly. Businesses are required to handle the changes and one of the cornerstone models
to understand the change was established in 1940s by Kurt Lewin back (Hussein, et al., 2013).
This model refers to three stage processes regarding change known as unfreeze, moving, and
refreeze. By analysis of change process within the Sun Microsystems it is significant to

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implement Lewin model. This kind of model will help the business to highlight the issues and
difficulties within the process of change and implementation of changes within the business.
(Bondar, et al., 2017)
It also helps the business to implement the changes more effectively and solve the issues. First
step is “unfreezing” that help to change the present behavior and motivate the employees and
management for changes within the business. Next phase will be moving that carries new
information and ways of reacting to change. The last phase of Lewin model will be refreezing
phase which help to integrate and stabilize the changes within the entire business.
Unfreezing
Sun Microsystems has started the business with very good peace. In a single year organziation
has gain the contract of more than $14 million. This present that organization run the business by
growing philosophy and approaches to many other nations to regarding expansion of business. It
has created many strategic alliance with many other nations like Microsoft for the growth of
business and advancement of business. The company also facilitates employees and provide
many opportunities such as work from home their desire places, anywhered and from
everywhere they can give the production to business. This also lead to save the cost for the
business. There are also many other problems arises due to lack of coordination and face to face
interaction with the top leadership with employees in different nations. The main issues are lack
of communication, techhnological assistance, and many others (Pahl, Jamshidi, and Weyns,
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This will remain the effecitve to determine and implement the changes by communicating them.
Anticipate the desire obstacles and think the possible solutions to overcome from them.
Appropriate plan will help to crystalize Sun Microsystems plan and improve the productivity and
improve the retention of employees. This will improve the process of communication within the
business and develop the mentality to support the proposed changes. Polishing of ideas will also
enable the business to become more comfortable at different levels and work more productively.
It will remain effective for the business to place the changes slowly with flexibility to encourage
the feedbacks and implment them appropriately. Changes within the business will encourage the
ongoing feedback and allow to evolve and gain success.
Moving
Once members of team opened their mind change should be started within the Sun
Microsystems. This kind of change process will be dynamic for the business and remain the
effective as probable take some time and include the transition period. To gain the increase
efficiencies from employees will work to provide the new responsibilities and tasks that entail
the curve of learning and allow to implementing the changes effectively. This process will allow
to seeing change as the investment in terms of allocation of time and resources. There will be
new procedure regarding work will be roll out and improve the effectiveness in the structure. It
will be done by explaining the benefits and processes that affect everyone which bring the many
opportunities for involvement of employees. There will be appointment of line manager to
provide the direction on daily basis and include the employees within the process of change and
create the short term wins to reinforce regarding change (VanVactor, 2012).
Freezing
The changes within the Sun Microsystems will reach to full effect by implementing them
permanently. By implementing the changes within the hierarchical structure it will become more
capable to redesign effectiveness and each effort within the business. This will also provide the
flexibility to implement more changes later on. It will allow the employees to take the full
benefits of changes by identify and support the changes by sustaining them. For this Sun
Microsystem should create the system of rewards and ensure the support from leadership by
keeping everyone inform and supported. It will provide the opportunity to celebrate the success
at high level (Paliszkiewicz, Gołuchowski, and Koohang, 2015).

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Leadership and management models
While Sun Microsystems works to implement changes it is important to apply the right model of
leadership. Model should be very simple and include the many organization parts and systems of
management that are enough capable to gain the functional and qualitative results. Leadership
models will give the effective output for long-term results for Sun Microsystems. For employees
of organization it will focus to provide the freedom to employees with improving skills and
experience (Sart, 2014). Following leadership model will be used to within the Sun
Microsystems.
Leadership with autocratic model
This is known as the finest leadership model which widely used across the world by many
organizations. This will give the business tremendous results as leadership within the
organization have good power and control. There will be also more benefits for the autocratic
model as invite the suggestion from employees and gain the incredible results by implementing
appropriate changes. This will help to make the process of decision making easy and get the
solution effectively. It will also increase the more chances to make the critical decisions and
focus on to performing the allocated tasks and achieve the mission of Sun Microsystems such as
minimizing the carbon footprint within the operations and save the business power through many
appropriate implications.
Leadership with transactional model
This will be effective and work for the Sun Microsystems as leadership assign the particular
tasks to employees to perform effectively. Transactional leadership includes employees and
teams to make particular goals and work to achieve them (McCleskey, 2014). There will be use of
managerial power. In this leadership model leadership in Sun Microsystems will follow the two
ways of communication model and bring the most desirable result by use of computer mediated
communication and video conferencing.
Charismatic leadership
Charismatic leadership is very similar to transformational leadership. In this kind of model
leadership must inspire to employees to become more energetic. This kind of leadership
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Panagopoulos, and Rapp, 2013). In Sun Microsystems charismatic leadership will focus to create
the team spirit, commitment, and excitement that prove to become more beneficial for the
business. The intention of the charismatic leadership within the case of Sun Microsystems will
be to encourage staffs to use the clever techniques and regularly empower the performance
improvement and team work with more flexible practices of business.
Leadership with democratic model
Democratic leadership makes the final decisions by including the members of teams within the
process of decision making (Chi, Lan, and Dorjgotov, 2012). Involvement will include
employees and teams. This kind of leadership allow to present creativity and talent by
contributing within the associated project of decision making (Raelin, 2012). It will increase the
satisfaction level within the job and increase the productivity of employees within the Sun
Microsystems. This will be effective for the Sum Microsystem employees to appropriate use of
stored files within the remote server very fast as connect the every employees and work to gain
the desire objectives.
Conclusion
In the limelight of the discussion it can be concluded that organization become more capable to
improve the performance and reputation regarding sustainability. Further discussion covers that
organization expects to gain the desire objectives to compete at global level with the effective
implementation of principles. Discussion also covers change management models to improve the
situations for business. In the end discussion covers the leadership styles which will work for the
business to improve the outcome.

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