Change Management
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Change Management
When diagnosing an organization, it is essential that the managers should diagnose the culture of an organization. As much as this activity is one of the most important, sometimes it can be challenging to evaluate. Some challenges can be experienced when evaluating organizational culture during an important business transaction within the company. One of the challenges is the presence of the subculture (Urban 2015). These subcultures may vary according to the department, and it may bring confusion towards the understanding of the entire organizational structure. The busy way that this challenged can be mitigated is to ensure that there is a common culture that cuts across various department within the organization. This measure will make it easy when diagnosing the culture as the leader will have to focus on a few elements. The second challenge is a short time(Urban 2015). Various elements have to be assessed so that organizational culture can be understood. However, business leaders might not have enough time to assess these elements to understand the entire culture of the organization. This challenge can be solved by proper planning and scheduling. Proper planning enables the business leader to develop a plan and schedule that they will use for diagnosing the organization culture. This method is effective because it ensures that every element that forms the organizational culture is assessed adequately.
An organization can use various principles of change management to manage change. One such principle is to communicate the change (Jones, Aguirre and Calderone, 2004). The main strength of this principle is that it will help the employees to be aware of the impending change and they will prepare to embrace it. On the contrary, the weakness associated with this method is that employees might be aware of the impending change which they may not like. Therefore, they will have enough time to develop strategies that will be used to resist change. An example of a scenario whereby I would employ this approach is when reassigning the employee’s new duties. Communication will be essential in this case because it will help the empires aware. Therefore, they will prepare themselves psychologically.
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Jones, J., Aguirre, D., & Calderone, M. (2004). 10 Principles of change management. Strategy + business. Retrieved from: https://www.k4health.org/sites/default/files/10%20Principles%20of%20Change%20Mgmt-04-15-04.pdf
Urban, W. (2015). The lean management maturity self-assessment tool based on organizational culture diagnosis. Procedia-Social and Behavioral Sciences, 213, 728-733. Retrieved from: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042815058826