Management Changes

Managing change is how management ensures a successful transition of the old to the new. It’s a tool used in planning to try to predict results and accomplish goals. Managing change helps reduce employee resistance, control situations and gives an opportunity for management to include employees in decisions that will affect the company, creating team building opportunities. It helps management offer growth, both professionally and personally to existing employees by developing skills or learning new ones. Because the world is evolving daily it is important a business changes with the world to surpass the competition or at minimal keep up with competition. When the economy is strong it gives an organization a chance to create new products and/or services. This may require adding new staff or increasing current staff responsibility and offering an increase in pay. When the economy is weak, this presents problems for the organization such as having to end relationships with employees, vendors or partners. It can also mean reducing benefits or salaries. Managing change helps maintain strong relationships with both internal and external customers. (Robbins, S. & Coulter, M. 2014)

Leading change in management is not very complex, we have to remember we are dealing with people and not just an entity. The first rule would be to do no harm; we can do no harm by evaluating the positive and negative effects of our choices before they are put into place. I would study results of a change prior to putting it into place to be sure I can accurately forecast what will happen in the future versus a quick fix to a problem that may crated a large problem. The second rule would be all change involves personal choice. Making a decision on what’s best for the organization not yourself is one of the most important choices we have to consider. The decisions we make as managers aren’t for our benefits they are for the growth of the company, as managers we have a responsibility to offer growth to employees not run an organization into the ground because whatever choices we made were solely for our benefit. We can avoid making choices that benefit us by forming a team of adviser that can come up with solutions that benefit the organization as a whole. The third rule we have to keep in mind is the relationship between change and performance is not intendances. We need to remember it takes approximately 21 days for a person to changes, so we have to practice patience. As much as we would like change to happen overnight, it takes times. Management has to guide its employees in difficult times of change. In addition to announcing what change will happen in advance, management should provide resources and training to help staff adjust according. Connecting change with business strategy is the fourth rule we need to remember. We can’t implement change for the sake of implementing change, it has to be a benefit in connection