CHANGE AND LEADERSHIP

Change & Leadership

Change & Leadership

Introduction

Change is defined as the response to various physical or emotional stimuli. This concept is complicated in the area of human resource management because people do not easily accept the unknown. In today's business environment they are conscious about the job competencies, financial security and the existing peculiar processes they perform daily. But, in response to the changing technological, social and cultural factors, organizations have to go through a transformation process at least once in their life time. Organizational change occurs when a company replaces its current business processes and practices to the new or improved ones. There are many examples of companies which were forced to reorganize their practices and structure following the technological and environmental change.

Why Organization Change?

Organizational change is defined by Malott (2001) as a constant state of change, variation or modification. Such change may be any change occurring in the environment work, which is an essential part of creativity and innovation in organizations today thus, the cam-organizational bio is seen as the ability to adaptation of organizations at different transformations suffered by the environment (Malott, 20) . It is defined as the adoption of an idea, technique or conduct that is new for the organization, is to move from one state to another, remarkable transformation may be gradual, constant, fast and powerful, a disturbance interruption and disruption, the transition from a situation to another. Business environment today requires companies to adopt reorganization perpetually to remain competitive (Balasco, 20). The globalization and technological evolution force companies to improve their business practices in order to survive. The changes may be minor, for instance installation of new software or major, such as revamping an overall marketing strategy. Many people consider reorganization as the inability to perform effectively and getting things done due to continual change. For them, this process shifts the organization from product development and customer support (Nutt,261)

After the relaxation in global trade barriers, new competitors emerge and new substitute products become available quickly. Following this trend, companies take advantage of new opportunities and perceived competitive advantage. Therefore, better to establish a corporate culture that enables companies to promote the organizational change (Connors, Roger, 2011).

Visionary organizations intelligently respond to factors which can bring change. Economic conditions, political changes, varying consumer demands, management policy and employment levels are always are active to brush aside the regular organizations. At the same time, successful organizations keep their basic philosophy intact. Because, “If an organization is to meet the challenges of a changing world, it must be prepared to change everything about itself except (its basic) beliefs as it moves through corporate life……the only sacred cow in an organization should be its basic philosophy of doing business.” (Collins, 2002, p.81).

Strategy change will take place on a broad scale because when a company transfers it resources to improve the product line though acquisitions the company will have to establish a vision and setting up a new system to support the implementation of ...