Question

Change can be welcomed, hated, resented, sabotaged, ignored, sought after - and more. How you address change is essential to getting buy-in and a smooth transition. How can you manage change? Can the rate, frequency and degree of change be controlled to aid acceptance by workers?

The true beauty of leadership likes in the leader's and followers' ability to together create a new , different and better future. The science behind change management is not complicated; it simply states that all humans beings prefer to do things that have the most meaning for them (Atchison, 2006).

Answer 1

In any organization, the change is seen as the biggest threat to the employees and most of the employees oppose any kind of change which can disturb their current comfort zone. Bu at the same time, changes are inevitable for the organization to be successful in changing the environment. In order to promote the change in the organization, following strategies can be used:-

Open communication with those who are going to be affected will definitely improve the resistance against the change

Explaining the requirements of the change to be implemented

Explaining the manpower how they will be benefited from these changes.

Addressing the different concerns of the employees about the change

Making some of the employees as the change agents as this will relax the other employees

Ensuring the participation of employees in the change management process.

In order to increase the acceptance of the change among the workers, we must find out what pace and frequency of the change must be used. If changes are implemented rapidly without the manpower being familiarized with the change will induce greater resistance. At the same time, if changes are done frequently, this will also create resistance among the manpower. Thus in order to have smooth change management, the frequency and pace of the change implementation should be varied depending upon the manpower’s capability of withstanding the change initiatives.