Analyzing Change Management at a New UAE Nuclear Power Plant Project

This report delves into the factors influencing change management practices at a new nuclear power plant in the UAE. It begins by outlining the background, purpose, and statement of the problem, which centers on the impact of change management and communication skills on employee satisfaction and project success. The literature review explores relevant research, establishing a research framework and model, and identifying knowledge gaps. The methodology section justifies the research approach, detailing the research design, population, and methods used, including positivism and interpretivism. The report discusses the change of plan within an organization, evaluating development changes and the challenges of implementation. Recommendations are provided based on the findings, and the report concludes with a summary of key insights and implications for change management in the context of nuclear power plant projects, emphasizing sustainable development and effective communication strategies to mitigate challenges and enhance employee outcomes.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................3
1.1. Background of study.........................................................................................................3
1.2 Purpose of study................................................................................................................3
1.3 Statement of problem.............................................................................................................3
2. Literature review..........................................................................................................................4
2.1 Relevant and pertinent literature for the purpose of the study...............................................4
2.2 Research framework..............................................................................................................5
2.3 Research model......................................................................................................................7
2.4 Lesson learned and knowledge gaps......................................................................................7
3. Research Approach and Methodology.........................................................................................8
3.1 Conducted study and its justification.....................................................................................8
3.2 Research Design....................................................................................................................9
3.3 Population, subject and sample selection............................................................................11
3.4 Methods to be used..............................................................................................................11
4. Discussion of the change of plan of an organisation.................................................................12
4.1 Evaluation of the development change................................................................................12
4.2 Challenges of implementing change....................................................................................12
5. Recommendation.......................................................................................................................13
6. Conclusion.................................................................................................................................13

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7. References..................................................................................................................................15

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1. Introduction
1.1. Background of study
Change management is a collaborative approach which helps to prepare, support
and help an individual person, team, and organisations for making the modification in the
organisation (Tang, 2019). UAE installs the nuclear power plants to fulfill the demands
of electricity in UAE. The government of UAE is designed detailed policy framework
regarding the nuclear power plant project.
1.2 Purpose of study
The ultimate target of the research paper is to highlight change management of a
new nuclear power plant project in UAE as well as the research paper also highlights
several factors that are influenced in this particular topic (Tang, 2019).
1.3 Statement of problem
If there is a lack of change management and communication skill to the managers,
then it hampers the employee satisfaction. It also hampers the employee retention in
nuclear power plant project. It also leads to misunderstanding as well as misalignment of
the strategy of the organisation. Due to lack of communication of managers, employees
are left at the dark.
2. Literature review
2.1 Relevant and pertinent literature for the purpose of the study
According to Wray and Simmann (2020), communication plays a vital role in the
within an organisation. It helps to provide different views to the employees by the
manager. It is very much critical for the success of the organisation. There are several

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issues in the change management skills and communication of the manager. They may
struggle a lot to express their ideas (Cameron & Green, 2019). They may be less
comfortable while adopting new skills required for the nuclear power plant project. Due
to lack of communication skills, it gets a huge impact in the problem solving skills of the
managers. It also affects their leadership skill (Tang, 2019). Due to lack of change
management and communication skills of the managers, it is not possible to give a good
amount of production (Aldama-Bustos et al., 2019). Because of lack of change
management and communication skills, employees may not be satisfied with their
managers. It also hampers sustainability of project. Due to lack of change management
and communication skills, it is not possible for the mangers to resolve the critical
problems of the nuclear power plant project. It is a problem having very expensive
ramification for the employee turnover.
According to Propesecu et al. (2020), because of lack of change management and
communications of managers, employees are totally dark regarding the expectation of
organisation (Tang, 2019). It leads to unsuccessful completion of the works. It hampers
the creation of friendly working environment which may hamper the production of the
organisation.
As per Nayan et al. (2020), micro management is also important part of this. It is
responsible for the production issue and it decreases the employee morale. If the
managers are trying to do micromanagement then they are trying to dilute their
productivity (Cameron & Green, 2019). It also hampers the development of the
employee. It is responsible for the less production of the organisation. Because of

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digitalization and adoption of the new technologies, it becomes a high challenge for the
managers. It may lead a huge turnover of the employees.
2.2 Research framework
For this research, the two variables are change management and sustainable
development in nuclear power plant project in UAE. As per American Management
Association survey (1994), change management is closely related to the corporate values
and communication. Nixon (2002) identifies the big issues regarding the change
management for the creation of successful as well as sustainable workplaces. In case of
nuclear power plant project change management is very much necessary (Guo et al.
2019). It can be reactive as well as discontinuous.
According to Waddel and Sohal (1998), necessity of the change management is
an important factor for achieving success for modification of organisation. Maurer (1996)
said that two third of the corporate research policy of change management is failed. As
per Kotter et al. (1998), there is a tendency among the managers for performing the
changes having a simple set of thoughts. They are not able to understand without any
systematic manner (Dawson, 2019). It is very common to the organisational perspective.
As per Kok and Benil (2017), sustainable development is very important factor
for the current century. Sustainable development helps to achieve all the expectation of
the electricity of UAE. According to Zang et al. (2014), sustainable development has a
huge demand in the nuclear power plant. It can only be possible if there is a development
of the better measurement as well as benchmarking methods. The promotion of the
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(Dawson, 2019). It helps to meet the present expectation of the nuclear energy. It helps to
develop the environmental activities of this type of project.
According to Al Kabbi (2011), there is a massive demand in the safe electrical
power over the upcoming generations to meet the need of citizen of UAE. Nuclear energy
is the only way to meet the needs. The UAE selects the path after performing several
analysis of the expectation of the future energy (Cameron & Green, 2019). It is
highlighted that the demand of the electricity of the nation is likely to rise about 40,000
megawatts by 2020. It is used to reflect the annual growth. UAE evaluated several
variables that are required for nuclear power plant.
2.3 Research model
The appropriate research model that is used for new nuclear power plant is
observational. According to Dean (2019), it avoids the researchers’ dependence on the
basis of the perception. It opens them to discover various aspects of the new nuclear
power plant. The most common methods that are used to deploy the practice site which
includes various case studies and action related to the research methodologies (Bousquet
et al., 2019). But there are various examples that are directly involved in the case studies.
Many of these are situated at the workplaces of new power plant in UAE.
According to Denzin (1997), ethnography is the only form of doing the inquiry
for the new power plant in UAE. It has some methodological sensitivity that closes up the
understanding of social world with the help of enduring the extended periods of the new
nuclear power plant (Aldama-Bustos et al., 2019). As per Bousquet et al. (2019),
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Edwards et al. (2019), observational research methodology helps to provide multi-
disciplinary input as well as addressing the primary impairment in the new nuclear power
plant.
2.4 Lesson learned and knowledge gaps
This project is very complex for undertaking and involves myriad challenges
(Aaltonen et al., 2019). These challenges contain excessive competition as well as
alliances. These challenges are very much critical and it has some implications in this
type of research. It helps to provide a transferrable value of knowledge and it also include
various sharing of the knowledge regarding the elements of the specific phases of the
project. In this case, sustainable development is the most important factor for this type of
project (Aaltonen et al., 2020). Also change management is also important for developing
this project. According to Teece (2004), it helps to contribute in the economic growth of
the company. It helps to give the competitive advantage of that organisation because it is
very important to acquire a knowledge based techniques. It includes informal as well as
formal approaches
In this particular research, the lack of change management and communication
skill of managers decreases employee satisfaction and it also responsible to decrease the
employee satisfaction within the organisation. It leads to decrease in the production
(Tang, 2019). Due to lack of change management and communication skills, it is not
possible for the employees to know the latest technologies. This will lead to decrease the
production.

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3. Research Approach and Methodology
3.1 Conducted study and its justification
For performing this research, positivism and interpretivism is chosen. According
to Corry et al. (2019), there is a huge importance of positivism and interpretivism in this
research. Positivism is based on some philosophical theory that highlights some certain
knowledge regarding the natural phenomena. For this research, information is collected
with the help of some logic as well as some reasons. The received data are called the
empirical evidences (Wilding, Murray & Memmott, 2020). For that reason, it can be said
that, positivism is based on the empiricism. This research procedure helps to highlight the
identification as well as empirical testing of the hypothesis in a proportional format It
also highlights regarding the human involvement in the study.
In this particular case the research topic is change management in the new nuclear
power plant in UAE. Positivism helps to show more data regarding this research project.
It helps to show more contents regarding this particular research project. It helps to
provide some qualitative research regarding this research project (Aldama-Bustos et al.,
2020). For that reason, this research methodology has been adopted. In this particular
project, exact procedures related to the collection of economic data. The interpretivism
helps the researcher to collect the economic data of UAE to perform this research in
successful manner (Wealer et al., 2019). As this project is also related to the change
management, this research methodology helps to give a clear view regarding the change
management of the new nuclear power plant project.

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3.2 Research Design
 Identification of the problem
The initial step of this research is to perform some research
questions (Wall & Johnson, 2019). With the help of these research
questions, it is found that there are three main problems that are identified.
These are lack of budget, lack of skills and improper change management.
 Review of literature
The organisation needs to do some investigation regarding this
research project with the help of the literature review (Tang, 2019). It
helps the organisation to provide some foundational knowledge. It helps
the researcher regarding the conducted study. It helps to highlight
regarding the conclusions of the study. It also helps the organisation to
analyse the statistics.
 Clarification of the issue
In this step, the organisation needs to clarify several issues and
narrows of the study (Siqueira et al., 2019). It has been done after
successfully completing the literature review.
 Defining terminology and concepts
In this particular step, terms and concepts are elaborated (Parsons
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change management are the most important terms. It has different
definitions that are depending of the study.
 Elaboration of the population
In this particular step, the population, the people, employees’
evaluation are identified (Lozano, Carpenter & Sammalisto, 2020). It is
used to define the specific age groups that are affected by this research
topic.
 Collection and analysing data
In this particular step, the collection and analysis of data needs to
be performed (Kang, Jeong & Jung, 2019). In this step, all the research
questions are answered.
In this particular step, descriptive research design is used (Guo et al., 2019). It is
used to describe the characteristics of population that can be affected by this project. It
does not provide any answer to the questions of the project. The feature of this design
helps to elaborate the situation of the categorical scheme of this particular project.
3.3 Population, subject and sample selection
In this particular research, secondary research strategy is considered. For that
reason, population, subject and sample selection will not exist. This research is performed
with the help of existing data (Ding et al., 2019). These is summarized and collated for
giving the efficiency in the research. It helps to perform the research based on the
research material available in various research reports. It is less costly than the primary

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research because in this research existing research methodology has been used. Third
party may be involved for the collection of the data. It is also called as desk research
skills (Aldama-Bustos et al., 2019). In this type o research, data may not be as per the
expectation of the researcher. It is faster than primary research. It helps to provide a huge
knowledge regarding the primary research.
3.4 Methods to be used
In this particular, literature review is used for the secondary research. It is a
survey of the scholarly resources related to this topic. It may be a portion of a particular
thesis, dissertation or a research paper. It helps to perform a detailed survey and it helps
to perform detail synthesis of the information from this research topic. It helps to perform
some critical analysis of detected issues in the research topic. It is used to highlight the
limitation of various theories. It is use to perform further research and different points of
view. It also helps to represent the literature in professional manner.
4. Discussion of the change of plan of an organisation
In this particular case, transformational change is required (Bousquet et al., 2019). It
helps the organisation to shift in the business culture of the organisation. They also changed the
procedure they are adopted for implementing the new nuclear power plant in past. It is enacted
over a period of time.
4.1 Evaluation of the development change
In this particular project, the Acceleration Implementation Methodology is used
(Aldama-Bustos et al., 2019).It helps to navigate some intentional change in the major
transformation within the organisation. It helps the top level management of the

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organisation to plan, monitor and implement changes as it is continuing to evolve. It can
be applied in this project in an efficient manner.
4.2 Challenges of implementing change
There are various kinds of challenges that the organisation can face while
implementing the change during a project (Alam, Sarkar & Chowdhury, 2019). These are
as follows:
 Inadequate planning
 Lack of consensus
 Adopting latest technology
 Failure in communication
For handling the challenges of change management, the organisation must follow the
below mentioned steps.
 The change manager should handle the resistance with patience
 They should manage the conflict in an efficient manner
 They should deal with the setbacks in an efficient manner
5. Recommendation
While implementing nuclear power plant project, the organisation must focus of skilled
employees as well as proper budgeting (Aaltonen et al., 2019). Proper budgeting helps the
organisation to perform the innovation projects very efficiently. They also hire some skilled
employees so that they can perform the innovation of the projects. It is very important for this
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goals and develops a communication strategy (Dawson, 2019). They must provide the company
an efficient training so that they can adopt with changes.
6. Conclusion
The main advantage of this project is that it does not use large amount of fossil fuels. But
it is generates a large amount of radioactive wastes. In this particular project, carbon-di-oxide
emission is minimal. It creates environmental hazards. It gives huge amount of energy with less
environment hazards. It can be concluded that, this project will be beneficial for the common
people of UAE.

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