Change Management
FOUNDATION DEGREE
WORLD CLASS MANUFACTURING
CHANGE MANAGEMENT - 1
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Word count 2687 words
Paul Duff
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION Page 3
SCUNTHORPE PLATE MILL – 1988 to 2008 Pages 4-6
TYPES OF CHANGE Pages 7-9
RESISTANCE TO CHANGE Pages 10-11
OVERCOMING THE BARRIER Pages 12-13
CONCLUSION Pages 14-16
BIBLIOGRAPHY Page 17
Introduction
This report will describe changes that have occurred in the Plates sector in the Steel Industry within in the last twenty years, and propose reasons why the changes have occurred. It will also list types of changes an organisation and employee can experience and what they both may experience when going through them. Barriers to change will be discussed, one of these barriers will be examined to determine the impact it may have on the organisation and employee. Ways of overcoming this barrier will also be evaluated. Finally, the author, will reason the following statement “ Change Management is not a personal situation, it also has an impact on society”
Scunthorpe Plate Mill – 1988 to 2008
The Scunthorpe Plate Mill (SPM) is a manufacturing component of Corus Construction and Industrial in their Long Products Division. Recent acquisition by Tata Steel Corporation has not changed fundamental strategy in the UK and the Plate Mill itself remains a key part of the long product rolling sector within the group. Supplying plate from cast slab, to markets as diverse as shipbuilding, offshore structures, bridge building, mining machinery and wind tower fabrications (Corus Publications .2007)
Plate is rolled from re-heated slab, up to 3500mm wide, 30m long and between 6mm and 100mm thick at the Scunthorpe site. The resultant plates, after passing through both roughing and finishing mill roll
WORLD CLASS MANUFACTURING
CHANGE MANAGEMENT - 1
[pic]
Word count 2687 words
Paul Duff
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION Page 3
SCUNTHORPE PLATE MILL – 1988 to 2008 Pages 4-6
TYPES OF CHANGE Pages 7-9
RESISTANCE TO CHANGE Pages 10-11
OVERCOMING THE BARRIER Pages 12-13
CONCLUSION Pages 14-16
BIBLIOGRAPHY Page 17
Introduction
This report will describe changes that have occurred in the Plates sector in the Steel Industry within in the last twenty years, and propose reasons why the changes have occurred. It will also list types of changes an organisation and employee can experience and what they both may experience when going through them. Barriers to change will be discussed, one of these barriers will be examined to determine the impact it may have on the organisation and employee. Ways of overcoming this barrier will also be evaluated. Finally, the author, will reason the following statement “ Change Management is not a personal situation, it also has an impact on society”
Scunthorpe Plate Mill – 1988 to 2008
The Scunthorpe Plate Mill (SPM) is a manufacturing component of Corus Construction and Industrial in their Long Products Division. Recent acquisition by Tata Steel Corporation has not changed fundamental strategy in the UK and the Plate Mill itself remains a key part of the long product rolling sector within the group. Supplying plate from cast slab, to markets as diverse as shipbuilding, offshore structures, bridge building, mining machinery and wind tower fabrications (Corus Publications .2007)
Plate is rolled from re-heated slab, up to 3500mm wide, 30m long and between 6mm and 100mm thick at the Scunthorpe site. The resultant plates, after passing through both roughing and finishing mill roll
Bibliography: ‘Corus – Continuous Improvement As A Business Strategy’ – Corus Publications. 2007 ‘Corus In The World Today’ – Corus Publications