HRES1101 OB Report: Bow Valley Manufacturing Change Strategy

This report addresses a change management strategy for Bow Valley Manufacturing following its acquisition of Elbow River Manufacturing. It utilizes Kotter's change management model, outlining steps such as establishing a sense of urgency, creating a vision, and communicating the change. An implementation plan, including a Gantt chart, illustrates the timeline for the change process. The report discusses communication strategies to inform employees and management, emphasizing the importance of addressing potential resistance and conflict arising from hierarchical differences. The report also provides recommendations for resolving issues, such as potential employee turnover and the creation of dysfunctional conflict, ensuring a smoother transition and successful integration of the two companies.

Organisationa
l Behaviour

Introduction
 This report presents the kotter’s change
management strategy
 It also depicts the Gantt chart and
communicate the change.
 It also demonstrates the change issue
faced by management of Bow Valley
Manufacturing .

Change strategy

Cont…
Kotter’s change management theory
 Establish a sense of urgency
 team building
 Create a vision
 communicate the vision (Carnall, 2018).

Cont…
 Empower others to act on the vision
 Plan for and create short term wins
 Consolidate improvements and produce
more change
 Institutionalise new approaches
(Cameron, & Green, 2015).

Implementation of change plan
Implementation
of Change plan
Start
Date Last Day Duration
(Days)
Establish a
sense of
urgency
23-11-
2018
30-11-
2018 8
Form a
powerful
guiding
coalition
01-12-
2019
01-01-
2019 30
Create a vision 02-02-
2019
02-04-
2019 60
communicate
the vision
03-04-
2019
03-05-
2019 30
Empower
others to act on
the vision
04-05-
2019
04-06-
2019 30
Plan for and
create short
term wins
05-06-
2019
05-07-
2019 60
Consolidate
improvements
and produce
more change
06-07-
2019
06-08-
2019 30
Institutionalise
new
approaches
07-08-
2019
22-09-
2019 45

Gantt chart
Establish a sense of urgency
Form a powerful guiding coalition
Create a vision
communicate the vision
Empower others to act on the vision
Plan for and create short term wins
Consolidate improvements and
produce more change
Institutionalise new approaches
11/23/2018
12/1/2019
2/2/2019
4/3/2019
5/4/2019
6/5/2019
7/6/2019
8/7/2019
8
30
60
30
30
60
30
45
Gantt chart
Start Date
Duration (Days)

Cont…
 As per the chart, it can be stated that
for making plan and creating short term
wins and creating vision take more time
as compared to other activities
(Doppelt, 2017).

Communicate the Change
 Communicate the cause of changes and
procedures
 Demonstrates clear picture of what is
going to happen and when at the
workplace
 Develop a mechanism for input like
hotline and suggestion box (Kuipers,
Higgs, Kickert, Tummers, Grandia, & Van
der Voet, 2014).

Cont…
 Developing new process and sustaining
in the operation of business
 It should also make sure privacy when
necessary.
 An individual can perform real work in
company through high
awareness(Ceulemans, Lozano, &
Alonso-Almeida, 2015).

How the change will happen
 Use a numbered systematic list to
assure their employees regarding
transformation
 It should also ensure to set expectations
by enlightening the procedure
 It should highlight the necessary action
by linking to websites (Lozano,
Ceulemans, & Seatter, 2015).

Change Issues
 Two types of resistance senior
management might encounter
 Resist anything that threatens their job
security and nothing screams
 Possibility of less desirable condition
(Cummings, Bridgman, & Brown, 2016).