Change Management Report: Organizational Design & HR Strategies

This report delves into the critical aspects of change management and organizational design, emphasizing the role of Human Resources (HR) in facilitating successful transitions within an organization. It explores the core concepts of change management, including the application of Lewin's change management model, and discusses the significance of organizational design in creating a sustainable work environment. The report also examines various types of organizational change, such as organizational-wide, transformational, and unplanned changes. Furthermore, it highlights the crucial role of HR in managing change and ensuring that changes are implemented efficiently and effectively. The report provides recommendations for effective communication and the involvement of HR in organizational changes. Finally, it concludes by summarizing the importance of organizational structure and HR development programs in promoting employee engagement and enhancing business performance.

Managing Change

Table of Content
Introduction
Change management and theories
Lewin’s change management
Role of HR in change management
Types of change
Relationships among organizational design and change management
Recommendation
Conclusion
References

Introduction
Organisational design is the basic process of
change in the system of management in
organisation to achieve the goals(De Stefano
and et, al., 2018). The main criteria for change
management is to implement the organisational
strategies and to motivate the employees to
adapt the change. This is both internal and
external process to implement change.

Change management theory and model
It is a theory that helps in driving the organisational change.
Basically it is the approach of the technique to transitioning people,
processes and resources to get the better result. Change
management helps organisation to focus on the upcoming future of
the organisation and take the correct decision in favour of the
organisation to reach the vision.

Lewin's change management
This model is developed by Kurt Lewin. This model recognises for its simplicity. There are three
stages in this model which are discussed below -
1. Unfreezing
2. Change
3. Freeze

Role of HR in management of change
and organisational design
Human resource plays an crucial role in the success of organization(Järlström, Saru and Vanhala,
2018) . To manage change in the company HR plays an various roles. HR do both facilitation
of change and execution of change for internal stakeholders. The most important role of HR in
the organization is to ensure that the changes are to be done in an most correct and efficient way.

Types of change
1. Organizational Wide Change
2. Transformational Change
3. Personnel Change
4. Unplanned Change
5. Remedial Change -

Relationships among organisational
design and change management
Organisation design and change management shares an very strong relationship with each
other.Change management is the process of managing the employees conditions in the
organization when the changes are made in the organization and organisational design focuses on
the development of the organisation to fix the ineffective workspace environment.

Recommendation
1. It is recommended to the managers of the Marks & Spencer that the communication within an
organisation should be done properly and effectively for the growth of the business.
2. This is also recommended to the company that they should discuss with HR before
implementing any change in the organisation .

Conclusion
This can be concluded from the above report that the organisational structure helps in building
sustainable environment in the organization. To bring out the best result, company motivate their
employees by various techniques and approaches which help them in retaining the employees
and creating an healthy workspace environment. Human resource development help organisation
in recruiting the employees by various methods according to their efficiency and talent. To
enhance the performance of the business company uses effective and emerging HR development
programs.

References
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