Strategies for Successful Organizational Change
This text provides tips on how to effect and implement change in the organization using transparency, effective communication, education and training, personal counseling, and monitoring the implementation. The text defines proactive and reactive change.
Introduction
To implement a successful change, managers should focus on communication, training, monitoring, and counseling for the workforce.
Learning Objective
- Evaluate differing strategies for enabling changes within an organizational culture while mitigating resistance and issues
Key Points
- Organizational change often elicits concern and discomfort among employees. Change is a human effort as much as it is a strategic one.
- During an organizational change, it is essential for managers to communicate the reasons for the change as well as the process needed to make the change. This should include clear objectives and strategic implications.
- Effective education and training is essential for employees to understand and adapt to a change in the workforce.
- One of the most important steps in managing a successful change is to monitor how the change is playing out in the organization. Quantitative tools can be used to measure and assess effectiveness.
Terms
- proactive change
The shifting or transitioning of individuals, teams, and organizations from a current state to a desired future state before being incited by an event.
- reactive change
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