DBN 607: Managing Change - Minimizing Negative Impacts at Woolworths

This report analyzes the technological changes occurring at Woolworths Supermarkets and proposes strategies to minimize negative impacts. It highlights the importance of benchmarking against companies like Wesfarmers to ensure smooth technological transformation. The report also emphasizes the crucial role of the HR department in providing adequate training, facilitating employee adaptation to change, and addressing employee needs. By implementing these strategies, Woolworths can effectively manage the change process and maintain its organizational goals. The document is available on Desklib, a platform offering a wide range of study resources, including past papers and solved assignments for students.

Minimizing Negative Impacts of
Organizational Change
Name of the Student

Woolworths
The Woolworths Supermarket is an Australian
grocery store which is owned by the Woolworths
Limited. The given company forms a duopoly along
with Wesfarmers and Woolworths. The company is a
major in the food grocery industry. With around
1000 stores across Australia. The company aims to
provide convenience to the customers and good
products at reasonable prices. The company has over
2,02,000 employees under the brand name and
maintains a hierarchal structure. Innovation is often
taken to be an essential aspect of the organization.
The given report throws light on the change in the
organization with respect to technology.

Benchmarking
(Source: Goetsch &
Davis, 2014).

Continued..
Benchmarking can be described as the
method of comparing one`s business
operations with that of the others who are best
in the given industry. This is done to ensure
that the organization is moving towards the
right path (Frame & White, 2014).
Woolworths can adopt the method of
Wesfarmer`s in order to ensure that the
technological transformation that will take
place will operate well.

HR Objectives for HR personnel
The three Human Resource Objectives for the
HR personnel are identified as follows:
Ensure adequate training is imparted to the
different employees.
Ensuring employees are able to adapt to the
given change
To ensure that needs of employees are taken
care of

Conclusion
Therefore, it can be stated that change is a
difficult process.
The Woolworths Supermarkets is undergoing
a technological change and in order to make
sure that it does to deviate from its goals,
benchmarking can be ensured.
The HR department also needs to see to it
that their objectives are fulfilled adequately.

References
Frame, W. S., & White, L. J. (2014).
Technological change, financial innovation,
and diffusion in banking. The oxford
handbook of banking, 271.
Goetsch, D. L., & Davis, S. B. (2014). Quality
management for organizational excellence.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: pearson.