Change Management Examples

Change management is a means of regularly refurbishing and modernizing an organizations management, structure and abilities to cater to the fast changing needs of customers (moran and brightman), a process which is absolutely crucial in todays world, though as important as change management is, almost 70% of the organizations deploying it result in failure, which makes this process a hard trade for any firm, and it is this feature that divides the line between successful and unsuccessful organizations. Before bringing about change in any organization it is important to understand the culture and framework within which the organization works (Nadler and Tushman, 1989) and therefore change in an organization should compliment an organizations strategies and goals. In spite of how unpredictable the change process is, its management is an important prerequisite of managerial skills required by most firms. (Howard-Jones and Washbrook, 2011)

There are endless conflicting, contradictory and ambiguous statements on change management, but two issues that are accepted by all, first, that the rate of change in current business conditions is accelerating like never before and second, there is a mutual agreement on the fact that change caused comes in any proportion and form hence affecting all businesses in all industries. While there is abundant literature and theory on change management there is little practical examples available. (Guimaraes and Armstrong, 1998) One type of change where we could find a few practical examples is Planned change, where the management understands the clear disparity between where they are and where they want to be whilst working out a method to get there without any disturbance or interference from any factor...

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...ting on the current situation. Hence management of resistance is central to the triumph or defeat of change. The aim of this paper has been to provide an outlook on change management, though there has been insubstantial literature available on specific suggestions and advice, reason being there is very little theory available itself on specific examples and it is extremely difficult to provide generic practical examples that are applicable universally. However, managers planning to initiate change have to be well versed with the theory as this would provide extensive and a well defined direction, in addition managers have to have a detailed understanding of the problems and difficulties faced by their employees. To sum up, managers who have an understandable and pragmatic view of the obstacles to change for their employees are the organizations expected to flourish.