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Your employer has been going through many challenges this past eighteen months due to the recent financial crises. There has been major challenges throughout the company including, high turnover, software applications being used are outdated, stress is increasing for those employees who have been staying around, and morale is at the lowest point ever for the company. The remaining executives are planning to do a re-organization of the jobs and responsibilities throughout the company. However, each time the executives want to implement the change; another batch of employees resigns. You have been asked by your supervisor to prepare an analyzes of what the executive leaders must do.
1.) Apply the best organizational development process skills the executives should use
2.) Apply the change strategies within the short-term and long-term
3.) Evaluate and present the impacts of the resources
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Your employer has been going through many challenges this past eighteen months due to the recent financial crises. There has been major challenges throughout the company including, high turnover, software applications being used are outdated, stress is increasing for those employees who have been staying around, and morale is at the lowest point ever for the company. The remaining executives are planning to do a re-organization of the jobs and responsibilities throughout the company. However, each time the executives want to implement the change; another batch of employees resigns. You have been asked by your supervisor to prepare an analyzes of what the executive leaders must do.
1.) Apply the best organizational development process skills the executives should use
2.) Apply the change strategies within the short-term and long-term
3.) Evaluate and present the impacts of the resources
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First of all, the organizational leadership should take a full stock of the situation by analyzing the problematic areas and coming up with alternative solutions to address the issues prevailing in the organization. This will involve extensive brainstorming among the leadership, HR teams, consultants hired for reorganization and restructuring and representatives from the employees at all levels. Once the decision to implement the new changes in the organization is done, the organizational leadership and senior managers should embark on a comprehensive change management strategy to overcome resistance among the employees, as well as to secure their buy-in, commitment and cooperation towards the change initiatives in the organization.
In order to bring the desired change, it is very important for the management to understand the primary causes of resistance, such as fear of loss of job, apprehensions about the benefits of the proposed changes, impact of such changes on workplace practices and policies, ability to handle the new changes, etc. In order to understand these underlying causes of resistance, the top management and HR teams need to organize counseling and information sessions, or personal one to one sessions to inform employees about the proposed changes, rationale or benefit of such changes and impact of such changes on the organization's employees, processes and systems. The employees should be allowed to raised their concerns, opinions or feedback and all apprehensions, queries and concerns should be immediately resolved by the management and HR teams. This will help in reducing fear and apprehension about the change among the ...
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