M 6 Leadership and Management Flashcards
What is change
Organization transitioning from it’s current to a more desired state
Change theory
How change should occur to meet the least resistance
Planned change
Deliberate application of knowledge and skills
Drift change
Happens accidentally
Change agent
Group person or agent designated to bring about change
Change agent skills
Leadership
Conflict resolution
Change agent characteristics
Developmental
Rational
Time oriented
3 stages of the lewis’ model for change
Unfreeze (contemplation)
Change (movement)
Refreeze (maintenance)
Unfreeze contemplation stage
Change agent convinces a group to change
Gather data
Change movement stage
ID plans and implement them
Set goals, develop strategies, evaluate change
Refreeze maintenance stage
Stabilize new system
Full integration
most important step
Different change strategies
Rational/empirical
Normative/reeducative
Power/coercive
Rational/empirical strategy
use of rational to ease resistance
Normative/reeducative strategy
use of peer pressure to influence change
Power/coercive strategy
use of authority, law and policies to force change