MANAGING CHANGE

Managing Change



Managing Change

Introduction

The article chosen for the essay is 'A New Framework for Managing Change' by Oakland J.S., and Tanner S.J. which was written in 2007 and published in TQM magazine. The word change has become familiar in the most diverse organizations and has become a protagonist of business activity. Today, the paradigm seems to be "who does not adapt to change will die in the way." There is a consensus that change is a reality that affects strongly, in fact the only thing solid to hold which is possible, it is certain that whatever happens today, has already changed the next day. The general atmosphere that surrounds the organization is in continuous movement and is dynamic, requiring a high capacity to adapt to survive. It must deal with an unstable environment of constant change (Almaraz, 1994, 14).

Organizational Development

Idea is that organizational development in a large organization from the organization to be small, distortion is the solution to be born to the organization. Situation has been weathered by the power of individuals in the organizational environment and organizational environment change as going to (change-expanding variety), also survived the situation that luck is individual, organization battered individuals that go rotten.

By the organizational environment, while maintaining the posture control of the organization by an individual, go on. It summarizes the concept is that this organizational development. Coaching and facilitation, it is said also to have been derived from the concept of organizational development. I think that for those who have organization management, you need to know about organizational development (Bate, 2004, 89-179).

Process Approach

The above figure shows that the change process starts from developing entrepreneurial goals. So, it is essential for the leadership of an organization to setup entrepreneurial goals. Another significant pint that can be extracted from this diagram that shows the change process is that from the step of finding opportunities till the develop ventures learning plays a crucial part as mentioned in the diagram. This learning process can be facilitated by the leaders or the organizational leadership. An organization would only be able to create value through entrepreneurial change process if it would be able to facilitate this learning process through organizational leadership. This leadership can act as a positive influence as well as a negative influence. In order to prove this, the basic definition of leadership is enough. According to the management guru Peter Ducker leadership can be defined in a simple and straightforward way as follows: “The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers."

This definition shows the positive influence of change over employees. In this definition, the following leader can be regarded as inspiration. This definition does not inert any pressure or direction. On the other hand, the following definition of the leadership shows negative influence that may hinder the creativity or change process in an organization. “The increment of influence over and above an employee's mechanical compliance with routine directives of the organization” (Ogbonna, 2010, ...