Organisational change

What is Organizational Change?
Organizational change is the process by which
organizations move from their present state
to some desired future state to increase
their effectiveness.

Organizational Change(cont.)
• Involves Planned and Unplanned
• Transformation in an Organization
• It is the movement from current stage
to some future and preferred stage
• It is a continuous process

Nature of change
• History and Politics:
This will have a significant bearing on its acceptance of
change. Questions raised while planning for change are:
 Where do the origin of the company lie?
 What Image does the company like to promote?
 Have they had good or bad previous experience of
change?
 What will be the effect of the change on the ‘balance of
power’?
 Parties impacted by the change?

Nature of change(cont.)
• Management and Organization:
Change will impact the roles of management and the
structure and operation of the organization.
 senior management ensures encouraging opportunities for progress
through innovation and recognition
 Role of line management shifts from ‘autocrat’ to ‘facilitator’.
 Boundaries between jobs, division and department become blurred.
 Requirement for specialists decreases and the demand for multi-
skilling increases.
 Encourage for project and group work
 Improving processes reduces the total availability of jobs.

• People
– For smallest change, do not underestimate the
reaction of those impact.
– With every change, comes an expectation of a
reward for acceptance.
– Think through carefully the impact of the change
on every job it affects.

Level of Change
1. Level of
change
• INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL CHANGE
2. Level of
change
• GROUP-LEVEL CHANGE
3. Level of
change
• ORGANIZATIONAL-LEVEL CHANGE

Importance of change
• Change is inevitable.
• Life itself is almost synonymous with the concept of chnge.
• All organisms must adapt to the demands of their environments
and their own stage of growth.
• Similarly ,human grow up , leaving behind the characteristics of
earlier stages of development and adopting new behaviour to age
, and expectations.an organisation is not much different.
• An originations cannot and should not remain constant over time.
Even if the management does not want to change, external
pressure force it to change.

Types of change
• Evolutionary change
• Revolutionary change
 Evolutionary change involves the attempt to increase the
effectiveness of the way an organisation currently operates
,revolutionary change involves the attempt to find new ways to
be effective.
 Revolutionary change is likely to result in a dramatic shift that
involves a whole new way of doing things, new goals , and a new
structure.

Total Quality Management(TQM)
• Total quality management is a technique developed by Edward Demming to
improve the efficiency of flexible work teams.
• The board goal of TQM is continuous improvement.
• TQM is a rational techniques which is driven by hard statistical data on the
need for change. TQM seeks to introduce change through four key
components :-
i. Systems iii. People
ii. Processes iv. management
• 2. Re- Engineering :-
• “Re-engineering involves rethinking and redesign of business processes
to increase organisational effectiveness.”`

Total Quality
Management(cont.)
• Organisation that take up re-engineering deliberately ignore the
exiting arrangement of tasks roles and work activities.
• For the sake of more clarity, it is useful to state what re-
engineering is not. Re- engineering is not automation.
Restructuring or reorganisation, or delaying although these may
be consequences of a re-engineering exercise. It is useful to
consider why organisations might contemplate re-engineering
,given its radical nature.

Forces for change in
organisations
• Causes for change:
 External causes-
 Globalisation
 Workforce diversity
 Technological change
 Managing ethical behaviour
 Government policies
 Competition
 Scarcity of resources

Forces for change in
organisations (cont.)
 Internal causes-
Organisational silence
Failing effectiveness
Crisis
Changing employee expectations
Change in the work climate

What is Resistance to
change
• Resistance to change is the act of opposing or
struggling with modifications or transformations
that alter the status quo in the workplace.

CHANGE
Organizational Level
Forces
-Organizational Structure
-Organizational Culture
-Organizational Strategy
-Over-Determination
Group-Level Forces
-Group Norms
-Group Think
Individual-Level Forces
-Congnitive Biases
-Uncertainty
-Fear of Loss
-Selective Perception
-Habits
-Logical Reasons
Sub-Unit-Level Forces
-Difference in
Orientation
-Power and Conflict

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Organization
A consciously coordinated social unit, composed of
two or more people, that functions on a relatively
continuous basis to achieve a common goal or set
of goals.

Organizational process
 Planning
A process that includes defining goals, establishing
strategy, and developing plans to coordinate activities.
 Organizing
Determining what tasks are to be done, who is to do
them, how the tasks are to be grouped, who reports to
whom, and where decisions are to be made.

Organizational process(cont.)
 Leading
A function that includes motivating employees, directing
others, selecting the most effective communication channels,
and resolving conflicts.
 Controlling
Monitoring activities to ensure they are being accomplished
as planned and correcting any significant deviations.

Organizational Development
OD Values:
1. Respect for people
2. Trust and support
3. Power equalization
4. Confrontation
5. Participation
Organizational Development (OD)
A collection of planned interventions, built on
humanistic-democratic values, that seeks to
improve organizational effectiveness and employee
well-being.

OD Techniques
• Characteristics of OD Techniques
Based on valid information collected by employees.
Under guidance of change agent, employees get
opportunities to make their choices regarding
solution to the problems.
Aimed at gaining personal commitment to their
choices.

Strategic
Types of Techniques
Human
Process
Human Resource
Management
Techno-
Structural

Human Process Technique
– Improve interpersonal skills of employees
– To analyze employees own and others
behavior in order to solve interpersonal and
intergroup problems

Human Process
Technique(cont.)
Sensitivity
and
T-Test
Team
Building

Human Process
Technique(cont)
• Sensitivity and T-test
Increase the awareness of employee’s own
behavior how other perceive them
Behavior of others
Understating group process
In India it was first conducted by Rolf Lynton in
1957

Human process
technique(cont.)
• Team building
Is the process of detecting and improving the
effectiveness of work group
Increase the effectiveness of teams will improve
the org overall effectiveness

Techno-structural
Techniques
– It rely on efforts to change the structure
method and job design of the organization.
– They focus more directly on productivity
improvement and efficiency
Quality of Work life Problems

Techno-structural
Techniques(cont.)
• Quality of Work life Problems
They have been designed to create situational
that enhance employees motivation,satification
and commitment to contribute to high level of
organization performance

Human Resource Management
– They aim at hiring, training and performance
appraisal can mould employee commitment,
motivation and productivity.

Strategic Techniques
• Analyzing current strategy and organization
design
• Choosing desired strategy and organization design
• Designing a strategic change plan
• Implementing a strategy change plan

Effectiveness of OD
Programming
There are numerous factors to be considered
before any action is taken to resolve a specific
problem. there are several reasons to this-
It is difficult to measure the number, nature and
magnitude of confounding variables.
Preintervention measure of behavior are not taken
Those doing the evaluations of OD programmers have a
vested interest in proving success.

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