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Change Management

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Companies and organizations are changing continually to be more efficient in what they do. Change is not always readily accepted. Many people like to stay where they are and become comfortable with their current position. Business writers and managers have stated that unless organizations continue to change, they will become stale and inefficient. There have been many change management initiatives such as Total Quality Management, Six Sigma, and the Japanese Kaizen. Although these initiatives carry different names and slightly different processes, they all have a few elements in common. The most important elements for successful change management, as emphasized by the course text Human Resources Management in Canada and John P. Kotter's …show more content…

Every member involved with the change needs to feel like a change must be done in an all-or-nothing mental scenario. The operations of Quality Circles, as explained by the text, start with the focus on problem identification and analysis. Half of their energies should be spent on examining the problem. If people do not realize that there is a problem, they will not understand the need for change. In my current position at the university, the plan for change began with the statement, "Our current process isn't working well, so we need to change." We did not budge from that position until every person involved with the change understood and agreed that a change needed to be made. Any kind of planning for change is utterly useless unless the people involved understand that the problem is significant. Whereas communication is the cornerstone for building successful change, there would be no reason to build unless there was a need to build it; therefore the need to understand the urgency for change is of utmost

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