Types of Change - Session 5 Related To Change Management
Types of Change - Session 5 Related To Change Management
Types of Change - Session 5 Related To Change Management
TYPES OF CHANGE
Strategic change Cultural change Structural change Tasks change Technological change Changes in people attitude and skills
STRATEGIC CHANGE
Strategic change means changing the organizational vision, mission, objectives and of course the strategy to achieve those objectives.
Strategic change may then require other changes, for instance, in the firms production technology, structure and culture.
CULTURAL CHANGE:
Organizational culture is the collective behavior of humans that are part of an organization, it is also formed by the organization values, visions, norms, working language, systems, and symbols, it includes beliefs and habits.
A change in a company's shared values and aims is called cultural change HR plays an important role in changing culture.
It refers to a change in employees values, norms, beliefs and behaviour. Cultural change pertains to he whole organization.
STRUCTURAL CHANGE
Any change in how the organization is
managed falls in this category. As organization structure is defined as how task are formally divided, grouped and coordinated. Ex departmental responsibilities can be combined, vertical layers removed and span of control widened to make the organization flatter and less bureaucratic, increase in decentralization may increase the decision making process, org can shift from simple structure to team base structure, jobs can be redesigned.
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
Technology change is basically related to
Sometimes employees themselves must change. For example training and development techniques such as lectures, conferences and on -the- job training are often used to provide new or present employees with the skills they need to perform their job adequately
TYPES OF CHANGE
Continuous or incremental change. Discontinuous or radical change. Participative and directive change.
One is Slow and Incremental Change. Other is Rapid and Radical and Discontinuous Any change process has element of continuity and discontinuity.
Organisation is in equilibrium when there is a perfect alignment between structure, strategy and external environment. Such org. experiences 2 kind of change:
Minor changes : strategy, structure, people and processes. Involvement of middle management and top management is not involved. Occur in response to or in anticipation of critical environmental changes: Industry discontinuities. Product life cycle shifts. Internal company dynamics.
STRATEGIC CHANGE
Reactive Change: change made in direct response to the external environment. Recreation Anticipatory Change made in expectation of a future event. Re-orientation
Approach to implement change. Participative: people should be involved and given an opportunity to participate in the planning and implementation of change. Reduces resistance Yields better plan for change Directive: discontinuous change needs to be implemented swiftly. directive approach is more effective as it is less time consuming and gives less time for resistance. Downsizing, de-layering and restructuring are common