Analysis of Organizational Environment and Forces of Change in Fashion

This report examines the relationship between organizational environments and the forces of change, specifically within the fashion industry. It explores various factors driving change, including marketing conditions, globalization, and technological advancements, as well as internal forces such as managerial structure deficiencies and workforce nature. The report identifies key change management issues like communication breakdowns and managerial personnel changes. Furthermore, it discusses management and leadership responses to these issues, including guiding change, developing employee effectiveness, and handling resistance. The report also touches upon relevant theories like transformational leadership and system theory, providing a comprehensive analysis of organizational adaptation and management strategies in a dynamic environment. This report is contributed by a student to be published on the website Desklib, a platform which provides all the necessary AI based study tools for students.

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Executive Summary:
The purpose of the report is to present the relationship between the organizational
environment and the forces of change. The report discusses the diverse forces for change in
the environment of the organization and the issues in the management emerging from the
same. In addition, the report presents general management responses to the change
management issues and the theories based on the management and the leadership.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:...............................................................................................................................4
Organizational Environment and Forces for Change:................................................................4
Marketing Conditions:...........................................................................................................5
Globalization:.........................................................................................................................5
Technological Force:..............................................................................................................6
Deficiency in Potential Management structure:.....................................................................7
Change of Managerial Personnel:..........................................................................................8
Avoid Developing Inactivity:.................................................................................................8
Work Force Nature:................................................................................................................8
Key Change Management Issues:..............................................................................................9
Conflicts:................................................................................................................................9
Communication:.....................................................................................................................9
Change in Managerial Personnel:........................................................................................10
New Technological Implementation:...................................................................................10
Ineffectiveness of the New Change:....................................................................................10
Inadequate and Improper Training:......................................................................................11
Management and Leadership Responses to the Change Issues:..............................................11
Guiding the Change:............................................................................................................12
Developing Employees and Managerial Effectiveness:.......................................................12
Handling the Resistance with Patience:...............................................................................12

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Transformational Leadership Theory:..................................................................................13
System Theory of Management:..........................................................................................14
Conclusions:.............................................................................................................................14
Reference:................................................................................................................................15

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Introduction:
The notion of change refers to the alternation occurring in the organization’s
environment. Generally, the change is the variation in the accustomed way of life. In the
organizational perspective, the change is the deviation that comes from the various factors
and complex both the static and dynamic environments of the organization. The concept of
organizational environment signifies a set of composed institutions or forces surrounding the
organization that influences the operations, performance and the resources of the
organization. The organizational environment includes the all kind of outside elements with
the potentiality to influence the overall system of the organization. The environment of the
organization is subject to change. Several factors can be responsible for forcing the change in
the organizational environment. The factors can be internal as well as external. The
management of the organization is the major is the main and major unit that is affected by the
change. To adjust the environment of the organization with the change, the management
responds accordingly by redesigning their strategies. However, the chosen industry for the
report is the fashion industry and the following report presents the relationship of the
organizational environment ant the forces of change. In addition, the report also discusses the
managerial and leadership issues arising from the change and the managerial response
strategies to handle the situation.
Organizational Environment and Forces for Change:
The organizational environment and the change are internally connected. A definition
denotes that the change is occurred when the environment of the organization is disturbed the
internal and external factors (Jacobs, van Witteloostuijn. and Christe-Zeyse 2013). In other
way, it can also be said that the change is the modification process of the organizational
structure or the system that can sometimes be good or sometimes bad for the overall effect on

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the organization. The change is related to the organizational environment and that is
responsible for influencing the entire system of the organization including the management of
the same (Benn, Dunphy and Griffiths 2014). In short, the environment of the organization is
based and dependent on the forces for change.
While considering the change in the environment of the fashion organization due to
the external factors, the organization does not have any control over those variables, but tends
to align the environment with the change. These factors are:
Marketing Conditions:
The marketing condition of the fashion organization is closely related to the
environment of the same. Any change in the marketing condition affects the organizational
environment in terms of organization’s the business outcome. The dynamic market condition
changes its nature in accordance to the expectations and demands of the customers
(Boundless. 2017). Moreover, the competitive market of the organization is subject to rapid
change with pace of time in order to fulfill the needs of the consumers. The market for the
fashion industry is changing rapidly and the consumers are running after the new fashion
trends every minute. Different type of consumers demands and requires different types of
cloths and the style changes according to the aging of the people (Joy et al. 2012).
Accordingly, the changing market condition requires the necessary change in the
organizational environment to achieve the customer satisfaction level.
Globalization:
Globalization is one of the major and prime factors that are influencing the
organizational environment deeply. The relationship between the environment of the
organization and the forces of change is mostly defined by the impact of globalization on the
organization. The globalization further includes the social, cultural, political and the

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economical factors in the competitive market targeted by the organization
(www.linkedin.com. 2017). Similarly, the demands and the taste of the people regarding the
fashion are changing with the globalization. In fact, it is considered that the change in the
fashion is majorly and primarily the effect of the globalization. Hence, globalization being
the prime cause of the changing in the fashion industry is also influencing the organizational
environment.
The globalization is also indirectly influencing the political aspects of the business
market. As the result of globalization, the several laws and regulations have been initiated for
the welfare of the employees in the organization (www.ddegjust.ac.in 2017). The impositions
of the political and legal forces on the corporate organization have vast and deep influence of
the organizational environment. The organization does not have any control over these forces,
but it must accommodate with the pressures of the forces. The economical forces are
similarly influencing the work environment of the organization.
Technological Force:
Technological forces are the basic and the major force that is responsible for most
changes in the organizational environment. The technological advancement in the corporate
sector has the positive influence on the environment of the organizations. The world is now
based on the technology; in fact, the world is controlled by the technological supervisions. It
is obvious that the organization must cope with the technological improvement in order to
capture and hold the competitive market (Runfola and Guercini 2013). The technological
forces are the constant threat for the organization (www.linkedin.com. 2017). The
environment of the organization must adapt to the advance technological systems for
ensuring the competitive advantages in the global market. There is no doubt that the fashion
industry is not excluded from the technological advancement. In fact, the fashion industry is
based on the technologies. From innovating new ideas for the upcoming fashion trends to the

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marketing of the new fashion creation, everything is based on the technologies. Therefore, the
fashion organization’s relationship with the change trends and forces is closely
interconnected.
Apart from the outside forces, there are internal forces that determine the relationship
of the organizational environment with the former. However, unlike the external forces, it is
often possible to control the internal forces that occurs alteration in the environment of the
organization. Though the internal forces for the fashion organization is limited, but the few
points can be presented. The internal forces are:
Deficiency in Potential Management structure:
It is often found that the existing management structure lacks potentialities in
managing the organizational operations. This situation affects the environment of the
organization, and requires the change on the same. Managerial deficiencies like the lack of
co-operations, inadequate and ineffective communications, presence of multiple committees
and many others are responsible determinate that points to the need for change in the
management structure. For a fashion organization, it is important to have the proper
communication and understanding of any innovation at every level. The lack of proper
knowledge of the employees creates deficiencies in the organizational environment and leads
to change the same. The change in the management structure further affects the
organizational environment.
Change of Managerial Personnel:
Change or replacement in managerial personnel can also bring change in the
organization’s environment (George and Jones 2015). Replacement of the managers through
various processes such as retirement of the old managers, transfers of the managers can
affects the environment of the organization. The informal relationship among the existing

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manager and the employees is disrupted by the replacement of the manager, which further
affects the entire workplace environment of the organization.
Avoid Developing Inactivity:
It has been seen in many cases that the change in the organizational environment takes
place for avoiding the development of inactivity or inflexibility. An organization must be
dynamic in order to achieve best and effective result from the management. Thus, the
incorporation of change is needed avoid developing inactivity in the organizational
operations.
Work Force Nature:
The nature of the work force is constantly changing due the changing value according
to the generations. The entire nature of the work force is based on various factors like ethics,
values, management systems, which are changing with the course of time. Accordingly, the
organizational environment is changing to adapt the current workflow with the system. For
the fashion industry, the new generation are the creator of entrepreneurs, who possess diverse
ideas from the potential management. The difference in the innovative ideas, workflow and
the execution of the plan in the fashion industry is creating change in the organizational
environment. The relationship between the organizational environment and the forces of
change is thus interconnected.
All this factors signify the relationship between the organizational environment and
the forces for change. From the above section, it is evident that the organizational
environment is determined by the internal and external forces of change.

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Key Change Management Issues:
The change in the environment of the organization creates some serious issues for the
management (Cameron and Green 2015). Similarly, the fashion industry may face the some
issues in the organization as well in the management due to the change in the fashion trends.
The management of the organization is the fundamental and the central unit of the company
and the managers are the leaders of the organizations (Cooke 2015). Hence, the management
system of the organization is often called the organization leadership. The following section
of the report discusses the key change management issues in the organization.
Forecasting Error Overproduction:
One of the major issues in the fashion industry is the overproduction of the materials
due to the forecasting error. It is found that the fashion retailers sell their products in
discounts throughout the year, while they sell only little percentage of the seasonal clothes.
The changing fashion trends create the forecasting error in the company, which leads to the
overproduction of the apparels. Therefore, the forecasting error is common to the fashion
industry.
Communication:
When a change occurs in the organization, the communication becomes one of the
major change management issues. If the change processes, systems, management are failed to
communicate with the staffs of the organization, this becomes an issue in the management.
The employees in any organization need to be communicated with, in order to aware them
about the change that has happened or will be happening and the communication must be
done in every level, from the lower to the higher (Brighthub Project Management. 2017). For
example, if the lower level staffs of the organization are not aware of the change in the
workforce, it will become difficult for them to understand, realize and cope with the new

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changed process. Therefore, the communication needs to be proper and equal at every level
of the organization.
Change in Managerial Personnel:
Change in the managerial personnel can cause huge impact on the organization.
Replacement of the old managers with the new one can affects the employees as well as the
workforce. This is the influential issue in the management in the organization (George and
Jones 2015). It may happen that the employees do not like the new personnel or are not
comfortable enough to communicate with the same. This is a very common but deep issue in
the change management.
New Technological Implementation:
This is another major issue that commonly arises in the organization and affects the
management system of the same. If there is any technological implementation in the
organization, the old employees may find its usage uncomfortable (Shin, Taylor and Seo
2012). Consequently, it can affect the total workface of the organization and if the workforce
is disrupted even after the new technological implementation, the management becomes
answerable to the higher authority for the same. Hence, this important change management
issue usually occurs in the organization.
Ineffectiveness of the New Change:
If the new change or the process does not seen effective in the workplace or the
employees react in a negative way to the change, it becomes an issue for the management
system of the organization (Fernie and Sparks 2014). It is found that the employees in the
organization often cannot follow the latest change in the industry and fail meet the production
as per the requirement. This situation leads to the company to lower the supply chain value
and the creates a poor reputation of the company in the industry. The negative response of the

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employees to the changed business model or the process is definitely an issue that the
management needs to be taken into account and requires effective communication with the
employees (Hayes 2014).
Inadequate and Improper Training:
When a new change is occurring within the workplace of the organization irrespective
of the nature of change, the employees need the proper and adequate training about the new
model or the process. It is indeed the responsibility of the management to provide proper and
necessary training to the employees (Brighthub Project Management. 2017). The lack of
training can affect the workflow and consequently creates an issue in the organization for
which the management becomes the responsible and answerable one. The changing trends in
the fashion industry require proper training of the employees. The continuous changing
fashion trends need the new and innovative ideas for designing and the total production of the
clothes. Therefore, the inadequate training of the employees is another change management
issue that occurs in the organization (Shin, Taylor and Seo 2012).
All the issues discussed above appear in the organization and challenges the
capabilities of the management. As previously said, the management of the organization is
considered as the leaders of the employees in the organization. Thus, the above key issues
emerging from the result of change, confronted by the management can be considered as the
leadership issues of the organization.
Management and Leadership Responses to the Change Issues:
The change management issues are the consequences of the change in the
environment of the organization. The management of the organization is the responsible team
or unit to eliminate any conflicts or work issues within the workplace (Goetsch and Davis
2014). The management plays the vital and fundamental role in managing the change issues