MEETING THE CHALLENGE OF CHANGE

The social, economic, technical and cultural environment in which the firm operates is always changing. The company must keep pace and change accordingly. Similarly, within organization, new types of production technology may be introduced; the existing product lines may be phased out. These imply a change. We are talking here changes. Man by this very nature resists any change. Used to the old system or method of doing a particular job, people perceive change as a threat to their security. Moreover, change implies learning afresh the new methods or processes and most people resist making this extra effort. The marketing department of a television company always complained of the low quality circuit in the black and white TV and held it responsible for its poor sales performance.

However, when an improved circuit was introduced, the marketing department tried its best to convince the top management against this change saying that the old circuit was now performing in a satisfactory manner. The real reason however, was that the marketing department would now be under pressure to show results as it would have no scapegoat to blame for its lack of results. The engineers responsible for providing after sales service opposed the new circuit since it meant putting in an effort to learn the new way of serving it. If we take example of phoenix law enforcement security they have successfully handled such changes in their industry.

There will always be change. It is the manager’s task to ensure that the change is introduced and incorporated in a smooth manner with the least disturbance and resistance. Sharing information about the impending change, educating the people about the benefits resulting from changes, and building favorable opinion of the key people in the organization by involving them with the change process itself, go a long way in making the manager’s task easy. The ideal way of introducing change is that you, as a manager, simply sow the idea of the proposed change in the minds of a few people, and then let the idea grow and build till the people themselves come round to asking for the change. This is the way the Japanese make decision-by consensus. However, it is not always possible to introduce change by having

Meeting the Challenge of Change

We are talking Role of manager in our previous post. We talked about Sustaining Leadership

Effectiveness, maintaining balance between creativity and conformity and postponing managerial obsolescence. A manager is leader and he is supposed to demonstrate his leadership abilities. Being manager he must play his role as effective leadership. Business manager need to have ability to balance creativity and conformity as part of his role. Today we are going to talk on meeting the challenge of change.

We all are aware with the fact that world is changing. Everything changes with the time passes. One of the important tasks which every manager has to perform is that of a change-agent. The social, economic, technical and cultural environment in which the firm operates is always changing. if we talk about teen makeup, Teen Makeup was different before 20 year and its different today. With time changes everything changes. A manager must keep pace with the changes in organization. With time change The Company must keep pace and change accordingly. Similarly, within organization, new types of production technology may be introduced, the existing product lines may be phased out, formal procedures and techniques for planning, and resource allocation, job appraisal, etc. may be introduced. All these imply a change. And man by this very nature resists any change. Used to the old system or method of doing a particular job, people perceive change as a threat to their security. Moreover, change implies learning afresh the new methods or processes and most people resist making this extra effort . Some time changes create conflict within the organization and manager as team leader suppose to handle conflict intelligently.

Obsolescence of managerial personnel is a situation where managers cannot keep up with the latest technology or are not as well-qualified as more junior staff

Postponement obsolescence

Postponement obsolescence refers to a situation where technological improvements are not introduced to a product, even though they could be. One possible example is when an auto manufacturer develops a new feature for its line of cars, but chooses not to implement that feature in the production of the least expensive car in its product