Coping With Change Paper

The topic of this paper is coping or dealing with change. Baack informs us that the world of business has experienced an increasing rate of change. (Baack, 2012) Change in a part of every aspect of our lives. Kurt Lewin informs us that that is not an event but a process that is transition. (Lewin, 1947) Everyone deals with change on a physical and mental level; no one is exempt from dealing with it at some time. Children deal with change, as they are becoming adolescents, mature people deal with change, as they are becoming older, single people deal with change when transitioning into marriage and some workers deal with it in organizations that are growing or stagnated. (Aiken and Keller, 2009) Environment and our surroundings have
Kurt Lewin stated that change occurs in organizations if three steps are followed which are unfreezing, movement and unfreezing. (Baack, 2012) Unfreezing encompasses facing the resistance head on in the organization. (Lewin, 1947) Movement encompasses having an understanding of the direction that the organization is going. (Lewin, 1947) Refreezing is integrating the change permanently into the organization. (Lewin, 1947) In this paper, the focus was on the steps John Kotter introduces. John Kotter outlined these eight steps as creating urgency, creating a coalition, creating a vision and communicating it, removing obstacles, creating attainable small term goals, building on the change and incorporating the change into the organization. Management in the scenario presented should come together and acknowledge that there are problems that need to be addressed immediately. Some of the changes may have simple, quick fixes where as others more complex. Management should form a competent team of people that are versed in making the changes correctly. Our reading explains to us that during the decentralization process decisions can become less routine and more specialized. (Baack, 2012) People should be utilized that perform the task and people that are on the output side at the completion of the task. These people will have knowledge or possible tips that can save time and additional money. The obstacle in IT can be alleviated if the management team would ensure there is adequate staffing when introducing new software programs so that pilots and test can be run to lower the “work around’ issue. Since our organization has several teams within an department, changes should be introduced through a pilot team to have a documentation that the change is running smoothly. The changes should then be introduced by regions and then to the entire