What a manager does and how it is done can be categorised by Henri Fayol's four functions of management: Planning, Organising, Leading and Controlling. Through these functions managers can be catalysts for change or by definition change agents "People who act as catalysts and manage the change process." (Robbins, Bergman, Stagg and Coulter, 2000, p.438) Wether performing the role of the change agent or not, change is an integral part of a manager's job. Change is "An alteration in people, structure or technology." (Robbins et al., 2000, p.437) Change occurs within and around organisations today at an unprecedented speed and complexity. Change poses threats and creates opportunities. The fact that change creates opportunities is…show more content… "Planning cannot eliminate change. Changes will happen regardless of what management does."(Robbins et al., 2000, p.437) Planning just enables us to best cope with and manage change. Change can be modelled by two different metaphors: calm-waters and white-water rapids. The calm waters model involves unfreezing changing and refreezing, this is also the some as Lewin's model of change. We have seen that planning is a tool that can be used to predict change. In this environment of predicability the calm waters metaphor is an apt model. The organisation is in a stable environment and can anticipate change so it goes through a process of unfreezing, changes implemented to overcome differences and meet new goals, and refreezing to keep changes in effect and return to stable environment. Total quality management uses this model. "Total quality management is essentially a continuous, incremental change program. It is compatible with the calm waters metaphor " (Robbins et al., 2000, p.454) Total quality management continually seeks out problems and implements changes as they strive to ever improve their organisation's efficiency and effectiveness. Plans are difficult to develop for a dynamic environment. "this calm waters metaphor has become increasingly obsolete as a way of describing the kind of seas that
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Journal of Change Management
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Ready or Not …
Rune Todnem By a
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School of Business & Enterprise, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, UK
Online Publication Date: 01 March 2007
To cite this Article: By, Rune Todnem (2007) 'Ready or Not …', Journal of Change
Management, 7:1, 3 - 11
To link to this article: DOI: 10.1080/14697010701265249…
Why the need for change?
The children of the church are not active
and
attendance is low for anyone
under 25.
Boredom keeps the children from
attending
We as church members need to set a
better example and give the children a
safe and fun way of learning the Word and
still maintaining their youth
Strategies
Reform
Teach more.
Update more.
Feed more.
Inform more.
Teach More
Teach ways to develop new skills
of their interests in their lives
Youth need information because
that’s what they…
Management of Change:
Several contributions on change management (Paquier 2005; Charpentier, 2004; Johnson and Scholes, 1997; Autissier and Moutot, 2003) agree on the fact that the force of habit is the main obstacle for change.
Introducing change is disrupting the work habits of the agents, without allowing them to see immediately the value for themselves and the organization. It is here that the styles or strategies of change management can promote a positive perception of the proposed change…
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Change management focuses not on the project nor on the product, but rather on the people—the clinicians and patients and other workers in a healthcare organization who will use the HIT. One might ask if change management simply means training the users to use the new EHR. While training is an essential part of change management, much more is required. People need to know more than just how to use the system—they…
word change in an organization change can be one of the most difficult things to successfully accomplish. Change management is a process that an organization to make change for the future. When it comes to change management it gives effective strategies to enable the change agents to be able to achieve the vision or goals that are set in place. Change is never easy or easy to except. That is why it is very important that an organization can come up with strategies on how to implement changes the…
Executive summary
Change management entails a thought-out plan to meet organisation’s vision. Organisations are in requirement of change due to the competitive pressures and changing environment regularly. Similarly, castle home recently obtained a tender from city council requiring a planned change. The main aim of this report is to analyse the necessities of Castle home and suggest a planned change model. Kotter’s eight steps model due to its logical, sensible and easy to follow steps is proposed…
tThis literature is aimed at reviewing the management of changes implemented by Toyota Australia in response to the present economic struggle experienced in the automotive industry. Conflict had begun to brew in September 2011 as the manufacturing team at the Toyota Altona manufacturing plant in Melbourne pressed for a pay increment. The Altona team was represented by the Australian Manufacturing Workers’ Union (AMWU) in a negotiation for an increase of twelve percent over the duration of three years…
went to the ASTD website to get a better understanding of who they are and what they stand for and seen a re-occurring theme of how they help their members be the best in their business career. It was noted how the ASTD helps their member change as business changes in this new business world. I found a similar information when looking at the ISPI website. I found it very interesting on the (ISPI Website) how the systematic combination of three fundamental processes: performance analysis, cause analysis…
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Riordan Manufacturing is an Industry leader in the field of plastic injection as well in molding, which has over Five hundred employees and generates an annually income of 46 Million. Riordan manufacturing headquarters is located in San Jose California. Riordan Manufacturing is focused on remaining the industry leader and is a team oriented working environment. Riordan's Formal power structure consists of an organizational chart that shares…
The background to change facing business that exists in todays
Economy.
Everything except change itself is changeable in this world. The features we experience today, may undergo change simply, organisation is a group of people working together for achieving certain goals and objectives which may be common in terms of their interest and level of satisfaction.
Certain level of amendments or change tomorrow or after some fewer days.
If to talk of the business perspectives, they are more prone…
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