MANAGING CHANGE IN ORGANIZATION

Managing Change in organization

Managing Change in Organization

Introduction

Where people continually expand their capacity to create the results they truly desire, where new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, where collective aspiration is set free, and where people are continually learning how to learn together.

DISCUSS THE BACKGROUND TO CHANGE THAT EXISTS IN TODAY'S ECONOMY

We stayed in the same groups as we were in for the first stage of this unit. The aim of this learning organisation was to meet and fulfill development needs of all the group members. The development needs were the ones identified in our action plan in assignment 1. The way we were going to develop the needs of the group was by creating and measuring different activities.

This report will reflect on how researcher performed in the group and also what skills researcher has developed during the OD tasks.

EVALUATE THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF BUREAUCRATIC ORGANISATIONS

The main demerit of bureaucratic organizations includes lack of innovation. All the processes and tasks are so much fixed that the innovation process is almost eliminated in bureaucratic organizations. Employees get demotivated because of lesser employee participation and involvement. HR can't be utilized in the fullest manner by optimizing creativity which is the prime disadvantage in bureaucratic structure of the organizations.

Advantages include the increased control and monitoring of upper level management. The success of the organizations depend upon the wise decisions of top management. If the top management is good, then results can be favorable and if the top management is not good then it can result in disaster.

COMPARE ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF ORGANISATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Our group consisted of nearly 30 members so we had to have a consensus of how we were going to allocate our time to help each other to develop or improve their skills. First of all we had to find out how we were going to achieve this and secondly what tasks/activities the organisation were going to carry out.

Once our group had started to settle down and habits started to set in, things were difficult to change this was because we were only going to be together for a few weeks. In our group there were several members who turned up late time and time again. This had a negative affect on the group because we kept getting delayed each week. As time was short we were loosing valuable time. These members were consistently 20 to 30 minutes late.

Managing change is an important factor in a daily organisation such as M & S, Next, Phones 4U. Different factors are changing in Organisations on a month-to-month basis. Change needs to be done in a way it wouldn't cause problems to the organisation.

Unlearning

when there is a change in an organisation a lot of unlearning takes place. You may find that there are only a few knowledgeable people in the organisation. For example as our group was use to having tutors telling us what to do and how to do it. It was very unusual in the OD task when ...