Change Management

In the changing world, change is only constant. In current scenario, to be successful and stay successful - people, society, organization and country, everything is going through a rapid change. The topic we will discuss today is 'change in corporate environment'. In other word change in organization.

Different Types of Changes:

There are different types of organizational changes, among these some are as underneath. Although, they named different, but they are either strategic or tactical changes.

1. Incremental change: Continuous, small improvements to an organization made in an on-going manner.
2. Transformational (Radical) change: Involves a re-imagining of an organization’s vision, organizing principles, processes, way of working, products & services. Large scale transition to a different state of operation affecting the entire organization.
3. Remedial Change: Occurs in reaction to a problem, threat or challenge faced by an organization.
4. Process & System Change: Shifts to resource allocation, information flow, and production/service systems designed to optimize how an organization creates and captures value.
5. People and culture change: Activities designed to influence the values, norms, roles assumptions, & leadership style that form the organization’s culture to align with its mission, vision and strategy.
6. Structure change: Changes to an organization’s hierarchy of authority and structural characteristics such as the organization of its business units or internal groups.
7. Merger/Acquisition Change: The integration of two (or more) organizations, with different cultures, systems, values and work practices.
8. De-Merger Change: Involves developing new leadership capacities, processes and competences in order to allow two or more business units that once acted as a single entity to act independently.
9. Relocation Change: Change management initiatives focus on creating clarity around the reasons for the move, what to expect at the new site, and shifting of office location.

Human Mindset and Changing Effort:

Scholars are telling that people resist changes; they resist not only negative changes, positive changes also. It’s true and true for everything. But, let's think in other way, people like to persist what they are doing. It is also called stick to the comfort zone. For example: you are sitting in a car which is running 100 KM/Hour, if the car suddenly stops your upper portion will lean towards front. Thus, we can say, being human we love to do what we are doing and if suddenly there is a change our body and mind immediately react.

From above example; we can also calculate the effort required to make any change. The effort can be calculated from two factors. These are ‘how big the change is’ and ‘how quickly we want this change’. For instance: you need less energy for stopping or moving a car, on the other hand for fully loaded lorry you need more energy. This is obvious for organization also.

How to Make Successful Changes in Organization:

There are different models available for managing changes. Here, I just discuss some factors important for implementing change successful.

• Create and share vision & goal: Consider the culture, understand corporate environment while creating a goal.
• Plan the change and its management: Do consider attitude and change type.
• Communicate: The most important but ignored factor. It should be two-way communication. Communicate to motivate people.
• Implementation: Involve people and people with right skills-set while implementing.
• Monitor and review: If required, make adjustment in the plan.
• Finish and celebrate: Remember! Change never finish. It’s a continuous process.

Let’s change to survive!