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Implementation and Relevance of the Generic Change Theories in Ministry of Defence United Kingdom

Acknowledgements

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GOD ALMIGHTY, without whose help and guidance this task would have been impossible.

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Executive Summary

This assignment basically aims to confirm the degree to which the generic change theories can be applied to an organization as unique in its activities as the Ministry of Defence United Kingdom in comparison of other private companies. Also this assignment explores the main factor that can potentially manipulate the attempts made by the Ministry of Defence to implement change process in their internal policies and processes. Considering the fact that how extensive these change attempts are in an organization and their reported substantial failure rate which is quoted to be close to seventy percent very much deserves our attention and research. It may be noted that numbers of scholars have presented their studies in this regard and almost all these studies are descriptive in nature which somehow limits the knowledge and ability of these studies to develop relationship that will either make the change efforts fail or succeed. Change process is often viewed as ineffective because of its failure to bring about the desired changes but to abandon this effort is not up to the employee but this transformation is faced by ...