Implementing Change: Overcoming Challenges in Organizational Change

This discussion board post delves into the complexities of change management within organizations, emphasizing the importance of adapting to both internal and external environmental shifts. It highlights the necessity of structured planning and analysis for successful change implementation, contrasting traditional and contemporary organizational designs. The post identifies key factors contributing to the failure of change initiatives, such as poor planning, lack of employee support, and resource constraints, using examples to illustrate these points. Furthermore, it underscores the continuous nature of change as a driver for organizational development, advocating for strategies that address complexities, foster competition, and satisfy customer needs. The content provides valuable insights into managing organizational change effectively, now available for students on Desklib, which offers a range of AI-based study tools and solved assignments.

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Table of Contents
Topic 1.............................................................................................................................................2
Blog 1...........................................................................................................................................2
Blog 2...........................................................................................................................................2
Topic 2.............................................................................................................................................3
Blog 3...........................................................................................................................................3
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Topic 1
Blog 1
Change is an important factor in any sector, which can be done for improving and
altering the existing pattern. Change is a process, which involves altering the existing structure of
the business or any method into new process. Such change is very common in an organization to
alter the ways they operate (Carter, et al., 2013). Organizational change is referred to as an
alteration process that a company takes up for improving its operational methods. It is a type of a
process itself in which an entity changes its technologies, structure, strategies and the things
which will get affected by these change. Change takes place for various reasons in the internal as
well as external environment. Change in an organization leads to modifying the existing structure
of management and business as a whole. Organizational change takes place in various steps that
an organization needs to follow in order to be successful. This is because alteration of processes
and methods in a business cannot take place without a proper analysis and plan. Some of the
steps that change should follow are develop, adapt, innovate, advance, modify and adjust (Jabri,
2012). Thus, change is not sudden; it takes place with various pre-determined steps within an
organization.
Blog 2
Just as a family makes alteration by planting new types of plants depending on seasons;
similarly, an organization needs change with the changing external business environment.
Change is a process, which has a lot of affect on the business that take up change management
plan seriously. However, change was not a crucial factor in a traditional organizational design.
With the introduction of contemporary organization design, business structure has become

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complex. This led the business managers to take up change management decision for the
processes that needs alteration (Jabri, 2012). Business processes in a contemporary organization
are complex and involves a lot of hierarchical approach to reach a decision. This leads to
wastage of time and resources. Thus, it is important that such organization take up change
program to deal with the complexities and simply the processes in order to avoid delay. There
are other external benefits of change in contemporary organization as well such as helps fighting
competition, technological advancement and satisfy customers. It is crucial for contemporary
organization to take up change in a way that will avoid hierarchical approval in processes and
develop products and services that can help them to move further than the competitors as modern
organization faces a lot of competition from its external environment (Carter, et al., 2013).
Topic 2
Blog 3
Change is a continuous process in the organization that helps in its development.
However, carrying out a change process is not that easy, as it seems because there are various
variable that the company should keep in mind. A failure to analyze the correct need and affect
of the change leads to failure of the change process. There are various reasons that lead to failure
of the change plan that an organization plans to bring in its organization. However, the major
reason that the organization faces is poor planning prior the change and conflicts between staffs.
Failure of structuring the change process prior to initiating it leads to failure of achieving the
expected result (Cameron & Green, 2015). For example, a company plans to hire a new CEO for
improving their performance. However, the company did not include the employees and other
important staffs of the company in the plan. Moreover, they failed to formulate a hiring plan of

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the new CEO. Thus, the company failed to take this initiative as most of the employees showed
disagreement. They did not like the plan put forward for hiring the new CEO. Moreover, the
hiring plan was also not clear and organized, which led to confusions and issues in the hiring
process.
Blog 4
Reasons for the failure of the change program in an organization are never ending
because one reasons come up from the other. This leads to a lot of problem and does not allow
the organization to be successful in whatever change plan they want to implement. Other than
employee support and lack of prior planning, there are other reasons as well that leads to failure.
One of such reason in lack of resources an organization has to implement the change. It is seen
that an organization has planned a change; however, it lacks the resources, which is required to
meet the change program (Benn, Dunphy & Griffiths, 2014). For example, manager of an
organization decided to change their technical assets for better production and supply. Thus, he
conducted a meeting in which it called all the board members to formulate a structure for the
change. They also decided the total investment required for the change they wanted to bring in
the manufacturing department. However, it was seen that the resources that was needed for the
change was lacking with the company. They were not in the state to invest such large amount.
Thus, this led them to revise their change program and resulted in under performance of the plan
they initially implemented.

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References
Benn, S., Dunphy, D., & Griffiths, A. (2014). Organizational change for corporate
sustainability. Routledge.
Cameron, E., & Green, M. (2015). Making sense of change management: A complete guide to
the models, tools and techniques of organizational change. Kogan Page Publishers.
Carter, M. Z., Armenakis, A. A., Feild, H. S., & Mossholder, K. W. (2013). Transformational
leadership, relationship quality, and employee performance during continuous
incremental organizational change. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 34(7), 942-958.
DOI: 10.1002/job.1824
Jabri, M. (2012). Managing organizational change. Palgrave Macmillan.