Formative course work assignment
Table of Contents
Introduction1
Literature Review2
Understanding of key change management theories3
External factors forcing change4
Different type of change management models5
Kotters’8 steps………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………5
After change organization view6
Whether alternative approach might have been more effective……………………………………………………7
Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….8
Reference List……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….8
INTRODUCTION
Organisational Change is essential to modern companies not only to maintain competitive advantage but also to succeed in today’s rapidly changing business environment. I believe that it safe to say that 50% of all systems and applications that will be in regular use in ten years time have not yet been invented. That’s quite an ambitious statement, but just thinks about applications that you use every day; Google, Eclipse, Dream Weaver, Microsoft Office, Oracle Databases, Firefox Web browsers, these tools fall into two categories.
There are numerous factors affecting organisation change, including Environment, Organisation Structure, Politics, Leadership, but in this project I will focus on the culture of an organisation and how that is central to the organisations ability to change, adapt and maintain itself. Culture is not merely “how things are done around here”, but culture is the set of values, beliefs, customs and systems that are unique to the organisation (Burns 2004).
Literature review
Understanding of key change management theories
Organisations face huge pressures to change, from both internal and external sources, internal forces to change are often as a result of long-term external forces.
For example, a banks internal pressure to adopt an Internet banking system, or NHS National Health Service in managing change of services provision as a result of more and more other banks going online. Internal...