STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT

Strategic Management



Table of Contents

Introduction3

Task 13

Organizational Strategic Change3

Hawthorne studies4

Task 25

Issues Relating to Strategic Change5

Task 36

Stakeholders in Developing a Strategy for Change6

Task 47

Models for Change7

Plan to implement a model for change in H.J. Hinchel Ltd8

Appropriate Measures to Monitor Progress9

Conclusion9

References10

Strategic Management

Introduction

A strategic change management is a set of processes that are employed to make sure that changes been implemented in ordered, controlled and systematic way. This paper attempts to apply models and concepts from the course also analyzes a significant change initiative that has been observed in H.J. Hinchel Ltd. The paper attempts to give relevance to an analysis of the change strategy at H.J. Hinchel Ltd that is a description of the change implementation strategy, an elaboration of how the change structured and sequenced, a discussion on how support for the change obtained and how successful those efforts were. This paper is, in essence, a discussion of how the findings that H.J. Hinchel Ltd may come across when the change management strategy is implemented.

Task 1

Organizational Strategic Change

It is a basic skill in which business leaders and executives need to be competent. Only few work environments are known that can continue working without changes otherwise every business needs change due to technological awareness in the world and high competition in the market. It has been developed over a period of time. ADKAR model is one of most commonly known and followed change management models especially in H.J. Hinchel Ltd which belongs to the processing manufacturing industry. This model defines five basic stages that must be kept to make successful amendments in an organization.

These stages include;

Awareness that is leaders must know what changes are needed and why.

Desire that is all concerned members of organization must have motivation and desire to make changes in processes.

Knowledge that is organization must know what changes can be made and how?

Ability that is an organization willing to change must have abilities and competencies to plan and implement it.

Reinforcement that is all concerned people must be reinforced to sustain this and adopt new behaviors (Barney 1996, 111).

Moreover, when talking about the followed structure of H.J. Hinchel Ltd that is formal, traditional, functional, mechanistic and predictable. The management style is benevolent / autocratic with a tendency to patronize. Hawthorne effect is the context in which innovation, interest in the experiment or increased attention to this issue leads to a distorted, often too favorable outcome, participants in the experiment are different, harder than usual, only because of the realization that they are involved in the experiment. Thus, it was noticed that the company's focus was totally on the innovation to capture the loss market. H.J. Hinchel Ltd decision to invest $100 million in a state of the art manufacturing facility with the focus on processing and filling operations showed its perspective towards innovation (Rees 2002, 109).

Hawthorne studies

The initial orientation of the Hawthorne studies on the theory of scientific management of time. Organization like H.J. Hinchel Ltd has to focus on its strategies which help the organization in meeting its ...