Contents 1. Why Culture is important? 2. Organizational Change 3. Forces for Change 4. Sources of Individual/Organizational Resistance to Change 5. Managing the Change 6. Overcoming Resistance to Change 7. Organizational Development 8. Various Approaches to O.D. 9. How to Create Motivation 10. Change targets 11. Key Stages of OD Programme 12. Change Skills: A Managerial Approach 13. Implications for Managers 14. Summary/conclusion - Organization Culture? - Organization Change? - Organization Development? Why culture is important? - Performance - Commitment Why changes - External - Internal Organization Change Culture at Work - Another Change? What is Organizational Change? - Individual Change - Group Change - Structural Change Sources of Organizational Change Internal Change Factors - Technical Production Processes - Political Processes - Organizational Culture The Role of Internal Change Variables External Change Variables Immediate Environment - Domestic competition - Population trends - Social trends - Government actions The General Environment - Foreign competition - Social movements - Political-economic movements - Technology - Professionalization - Culture contact The Role of External Change Variables Change Variables and Culture National Culture and Organizational Change - Time Orientation - Resistance to Change - Tradition - Habit - Resource Limitations - Power and Influence - Fear of the Unknown - Values Organizational Culture and Change Managing Change Organization Development (OD) Lewin's Model of Change - Phase 1: Diagnosis - Phase 2: Unfreezing - Phase 3: Movement - Phase 4: Refreezing - Phase 5: Renewal Managing Resistance to Change - Education and Communication - Participation and involvement - Negotiation and agreement - Manipulation and co-optation - Coercion The Interaction of National and Organizational Cultures - National Culture - Organizational Culture Macro-Organizational Change Theories - Life-Cycle Theory - Teleological Theory - Dialectical Theory - Evolutionary Theory - Cultural Implications of Macro Change Theories Convergence or Divergence? - Forces for Convergence - Forces for Divergence Forces for Change: External - Competitive Edge - Economic Forces - Internationalization - Changes in Social Values - Political Changes - *Technological Internal - Leadership(CEO Key Personnels) - Culture(Management Styles, Values, etc.) OD Values - Respect for people - Trust and support - Power equalization - Confrontation - Participation Forces for Change - Nature of the Work Force - Technology - Economic Shocks - Social Trends - World Politics - Competition Management of Change - Importance - Relevance of OB - Key problems - Solutions? Six ways to deal with resistance to change - Education and communication - Participation and involvement - Facilitation and support - Facilitation and agreement - Manipulation and co-optation - Explicit and implicit coercion Ten sources of Resistance to Change 1. Fear of the unknown 2. Loss of control 3. Loss of face 4. Loss of competency 5. Need for security 6. Poor timing 7. Force of habit 8. Lack of support 9. Lack of confidence 10. Lingering resentment Power base - Rewards - Punishments - Legitimacy - Expertise - Reference Change Strategy - Force-coercion - Rational persuasion - Shared powers Managerial behavior - Unilateral action: "command" - Rational persuasion; - Expert testimony; - Demonstration projects - Empowerment; - Participative decisions; - Group process Predicted outcomes - Temporary compliance - Long-term internalization Job Stress Work Factors - Task demands - Role dynamics - Interpersonal relationships - Career progress Non-work Factors - Family - Economics - Personal affairs Personal Factors - Needs - Capabilities - Personality Potential Consequences - For the individual - behavioral, psychological, and medical problems. - For the organization - decreased performance, morale and motivation; increased turnover and absenteeism Managing the Change: *Activities Contributing to Effective Change in Organization. - Motivation Change - Creating a vision - Developing political Support - Managing the Transition - Sustaining Momentum Motiving Change - Creating readiness - Overcoming resistance to change Creating a Vision - Mission - Value Outcomes & Conditions - Goals (Midpoint Goals) Developing Political Support - Assessing & agent power - Identify key stakeholders - Influencing stakeholders Managing the Transition - Activity planning - Commitment planning - Management Structures Sustaining Momentum - Providing Resources for change - Building a Support System for change agent - Developing new competencies & Skills - Reinforcing new Behavior Organisational Development I. Definitions 1) It is defined as a strategy for improving organisational effectiveness by means of behavioural approaches, involving the application of diagnostic and problem-solving skills by external consultant in collaboration with the organisation's management. 2) Some key considerations: a) OD is an organisation-wide process. b) It involves the intervention of an external third party in the role of change agent. c) It is aimed at both improving organisation effectiveness and management development. Various Approaches To O.D. A. Leurin's Change Model: - Unfreezing - *Moving (Change) - *Refreezing (Institutional) Change - change means shift the behaviour of the Organisation /Department to a new level. Refreezing - means the maintenance of the change. This also means the "system" of maintenance. Change Models: A. Kurt Lewin's Model: 3 Stage - Unfreezing - Moving (change) - Refreezing B. Lippitt. Watson & Westley - the 7 stages: - Need - Est. change relation (client-agent) - Clarification & diagnosis of problem - Alternatives - Transformation of intentions into actual change efforts. - Generalisation & stabilisation of change (refreezing). - Terminal relation C. Stream Analysis (Jerry Porras) - Classifying the problem into these "stream settings" - Social factors(culture, style) - Technology (tools, equipment, job) - Physical settings(space etc.) - Organisation arrangements(goals, strategy rewards) etc. interconnection of these variables (& problems) * Stream Analysis, O.D. programs change the work setting which leads to changes in behaviour, which leads to organisation improvement. D. Burke - Litwin - Model of individual & Organisation performance Planned Change can be viewed from the following Situations: A. The Degree of organisational change involved B. The Degree to which organisational members learn how to change. C. The Degree to which the client system is organized. Degree of Change: - Incremental Change? - Quantum Change? * Incremental - Gradual Change - Problem solving type - Fine-tuning of existing system & Status Quo. * Quantum Change - more radical & drastic - Tend to involve multiple levels - More responsive to the external environment(competitors & uncertainty) - High staff involvement & participation. Degree of Organizing - Overorganized (bureaucratic, mechanistic, leadership styles., job designs, etc.) - Underorganized (Loose control, too much decentralization, ill-defined jobs & structure, etc.) How to Create Motivation(Readiness) 1. Sensitise Organization to pressures for change(Devil's advocates) 2. Reveal discrepancies between current & desired status(performance). 3. Convey the message positively(credible positive expectations). Change Options - Structure - Technology - People * What are the Change Options? Sources of Individual Resistance to Change - Selective Information Processing - Fear of the Unknown - Economic Factors - Security - Habit Sources of Organizational Resistance to Change - Threat to Established Resource Allocations - Threat to Established Power Relationships - Threat to Expertise - Group Inertia - Limited Focus of Change - Structural Inertia Overcoming Resistance to Change - Education and Communication - Participation - Facilitation and Support - Negotiation - Manipulation And Co-optation - Coercion Lewin's 3-Step Change Model - Unfreezing - Movement - Refreezing Managing Planned Change - Planned change is pro-active and purposeful - Goal: Improve the ability of organizations to react to environmental changes - Goal: Change employee behavior - Change agents are existing managers, new managers, consultants - What can change? Change targets Purpose - Clarify or create mission and objectives Objectives - Set or modify specific performance targets Strategy - Clarify or create strategic and operational plans Culture - Clarify or create core beliefs and values People - Update recruiting and selection practices; improve training and development Tasks - Update job designs for individuals and groups Structure - Update organizational design and co-ordination mechanisms Technology - improve equipment, facilities, and workflows Phase 1: Unfreezing - Creating a felt need for change - Minimizing resistance to change Phase II: Changing - Changing people(individuals and groups); tasks; structure; technology Phase III: Refreezing - Reinforcing outcomes Evaluating results - Making constructive modifications Lewin's Three Phases of Planned Change 1. Unfreezing 2. Changing 3. Refreezing Key Stages of OD Programme 1) Preliminary stage - Discuss scope and implications of OD with external third party. 2) Analysis and Diagnosis - Direct involvement of third party to gather information. 3) Agreement on aims of the OD programme between change agent and the client - Setting of specific objectives for all levels of organization. 4) Action Planning - Planning the content and sequences of the activities designed to achieve aims of the programme. Change Skills(Kanter, 1983) Power Skills - Persuading others to invest in initiative Participation Skills - Ability to deal with problems associated with tams & employee participation Analytical Skills - Understanding how micro-changes relate to macro-changes & strategic re-orientations.
The primary implication for managers is that culture influences organizational change. National and organizational cultures play a role in determining when management perceives a need for change, what change is appropriate, the nature of resistance to change, and the success of planned change.
An international manager must assess each of these areas when formulating a change program. Although all cultures resist change to some extent, it is likely that cultures with reverence for tradition will either not perceive the need for change or strenuously resist it. One strategy under these conditions is to replace local managers with local or expatriate managers who accept the rationale for change. Another option is to implement extensive retraining programs for indigenous managers and lower level employees. Yet another approach is a combination of structural rearrangements and new technology that requires minimal voluntary value change but alters roles, interaction, and ultimately worker behavior and values.
Along with the influence of culture, the international manager must be aware of internal and external forces for change and how specific cultures respond o them. Finally, it is also important for managers to understand the larger processes that affect organizational change, such as social evolution, and the limitations they impose on planned change.
Summary
Organizational change is an important topic for managers because a substantial part of their jobs requires the formulation and implementation of planned organizational change. Affecting all managers and workers is the increasing amount of change produced by the internationalization and globalization of organizations. Instead of managing local external and internal pressures for change in many parts of the world that have the potential to change their organization.
Organizational change occurs at the level of roles, groups, and organizational structure. The most significant change is structural because it affects the other levels. Sources of change are internal and external variable. Internal variables include the te4chnical production process, political processes, and the organization's culture. External forces are population and social trends, political-economic movements, social movements, technology, competition, professionalization, and culture contact.
National culture influences organizational change because cultures respond differently to change. The time orientation of cultures can be past, present, or future oriented. In addition, various factors create resistance to change such as tradition, habit, resource limitations, power and influence, fear of the unknown, and values.
Lewin's three-phase theory for managing change, organization development, and macro change theories are useful for managers to understand the dynamics of change. It is also important for managers to know how to overcome resistance to change, including education and communication, participation and involvement, negotiation and agreement, manipulation and co-optation, and the use of coercion.
Finally, managers must be aware that some theories of change-for example, organizational ecology, life-cycle theory, dialectical theory, and evolutionary theory-limit the role of managers in initiating and controlling the change processes of organizations.