BS4- Managing Change Flashcards
What is meant by change management
Change management is a collective term for all approaches to prepare, support, and help individuals, teams, and organizations in making organizational change.
State two reasons that effective change management is important
You don’t want it to change for the worse
It is a very good time to get everything together and sorted, therefore will allow for any lose ends to be fixed if managed correctly
Outline how ACAS can help a business to manage change
It gives business free advice and information on the workplace rights, rules and regulations witch will help them to keep everything legal while making a change
Outline how workplace culture can be supported when a business is managing change.
Couture can be supported by talking to the employee and seeing how during the change they can adapt the workplace to allow for there culture.
State two other techniques which can be used to help a business manage change
Teamwork
Co-operation
Outline the three stages of Lewins change management model
Unfreeze
Change
Referees
Outline the 7 S’s in the McKinseys 7s model.
Strategy Structure Skills Style Systems Staff Superordinate goals (shared values)
Outline the 8 steps of kotters 8 step change model
Create a Sense of Urgency. ... Build a Guiding Coalition. ... Form a Strategic Vision and Initiatives. ... Enlist a Volunteer Army. ... Enable Action by Removing Barriers. ... Generate Short-Term Wins. ... Sustain Acceleration. ... Institute Change.
Outline how a business can use Lewins change management model to manage change
It can allow for the change to be very clear and for a while drastic restructuring to be done, it is quick so wont get as confusing
Outline how a business can use mckinseys 7 s model to manage change
It allows the business to easily breakdown the change into diffrent sub categories, this then allows for them to have more controls over what is happing and when it’s happening
Outline how a business can use kotter’s 8 step change model to manage change
It provides the business with a good basic structure on how the should go about there change. It will help them is they are unsure on what they should be doing at certain times.
State three reasons that effective leadership is important when managing change
It makes decisions easier
People know who to go to
It helps for things to run smoothly
Outline what is meant by an external agency/change consultant
They are people who specialise in human behaviour
State two advantages of using an external agency/ change consultant
It allows them to understand people and help to devise the business change strategy
They work as consultants for the business so they can take a total view of the whole organisation as a system
State two disadvantages of using an external agency/change consultant
They may not fully understand the main aims of the business change due to them being external
They may not always have the company’s interest at hart
