Organizational Behavior In response to a variety of expected environmental chang

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Organizational Behavior

In response to a variety of expected environmental changes in your industry, your business has decided to change its organizational structure to be more consistent with a new strategy for increased competitiveness. They plan to move from a mechanistic model of organization to a flatter, more organic structure with an emphasis on self-managing work teams. Needless to say, these are significant internal changes, not to mention the external changes which are bound to occur as well. Using what we have learned from our readings, what resistance to the changes do you expect and why? How would you advise key decision makers on the best ways to successfully affect the planned changes? Cite any source used.

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Answer: Here the resistance to change can take different forms like economic implications, fear of unknown, inconvinience of freedom and security of the past, lack of competence, low trust, changes to routine.

These are all the factors that affects the change process severely and demolishes the claim of the company maintaining that the changes would be well accepted by all positively.

The advise is:

1. Make the communication for the change well in advance to the affected employees.

2. Train them in order to get them accstomed to the new process in place.

3. Get the feedback of the employees regularly and make them understand that the firm will extend the full support for any contingency arising from the chnage process.

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