Issues In Managing In Changing World

Contemporary Issues in Managing in Changing World

Contemporary Issues in Managing in Changing World

Summary 

One can characterize the contemporary world as the world of permanent change. Since change is inevitable, we must try to get used to it to take advantage and be more competent. The process of change is a complicated process, because it touches people, emotional beings, through the process of change, show different reactions, but have in common is resistance. Managers must know how to manage change. You can choose how, since there are different forms, one of which is focused on the development and staff training.

Introduction 

The theme of the psychological aspects of organizational change management is very relevant today. In the world we live everything changes very fast: the raw materials, technology, communications, information and so on. One can say that there is nothing permanent except change. The issue of management development is linked to the management of change as change and development are linked together, as development aid to change and any change is a development for employees of the organization (Griffin & Babin, 2004: 893). 

Is it so necessary to make changes? Why is it so difficult to manage change in organizations? How do the employees during the process of change and why? Is it positive or negative resistance?  The issue of change management is not new, during the eighties and nineties made its appearance, is currently in strong expansion and development, there are many books and articles devoted to this subject, which can be divided into three groups : explaining the theory of change, i.e. that is change, what types of change are, as it develops the process of change, which develop only one aspect of change management and those who have the experience of change management process in a particular company or in a particular sector (Brasher & Lepkowska, 2003: 971).

Discussion Analysis

Today, most organizations understand that you have to make changes to develop. Failure to achieve changes, the company will retain the same, with what is known and comfortable, but cannot survive in the world where competitiveness reigns. Each company has to understand what change is and manage to survive, taken to the environment, since the change management is the management of the future (Hunter, 2003: 113). It is known that the management change is as old as the existence of the Companies. From the moment that appeared innovation within organizations, the entrepreneurial spirit of man there was enormous potential to facilitate technology exchanges, trade, reduce costs: And while to go automating many processes, implementing new policies that could include: purchase, delivery and payment, etc. Of course there are many factors that manifest in the environment that leads to change, as the state's own policies, programs, economics, the intervention of foreign companies and their market share, technology.

It indicates that these rapid growths that have arisen as a result of changes within organizations, is partly attributable to its force as a means of transformation and innovation through communication, education and functions, and more recently as a tool for technological advancement, which is not ...