Managing Change
BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
MODULE: ASPECTS OF MANAGEMENT
ASSIGNMENT TITTLE: MANAGING CHANGE IN BUSINESS
12TH NOVEMBER 2010
This essay will explore issues surrounding why “change” happen in businesses and what sort of implementation is needed in order to have an effective “change” in businesses/organisations. Things that will be looked at in this essay are communication, management styles and how people involved interprets the change they are experiencing. We now live in the world where change is happening frequently. Things such as technology, government legislations, environment, and business competitors and so on, are responsible for some of the change that is taking place in businesses (Hussey, 2000). Management plays a big part in making sure that every element is looked at before change is implemented. It will best to first look at what change is in business perspective. The www.standard.dfes.gov.uk website defines change in different forms, it states that change could be new materials, new behaviours/practices or new beliefs/understandings. In a way what it is saying is that change is something new to anyone’s routine of doing things.
Throughout the management history there have been some influential figures/theorists who contributed into the theory of management they are Abraham Maslow, Henry Fayol and F.E. Fiedler. Abraham Maslow is much known for his Hierarchy of needs theory. In his theory Maslow explains that every human being is capable of reaching their desired fulfilment (self actualising) as long as their needs are met. He talks about the needs as meeting the psychological factors i.e. hunger, being safe, being loved, having self esteem and self actualisation (www.employment-studies.co.uk).
Contingency theory was created by F.E. Fielder(1970). In his theory Fiedler talks about two styles of leadership, the relationship leader and the task oriented leader he states that there is no correct style of how managers work. This theory uses the
MODULE: ASPECTS OF MANAGEMENT
ASSIGNMENT TITTLE: MANAGING CHANGE IN BUSINESS
12TH NOVEMBER 2010
This essay will explore issues surrounding why “change” happen in businesses and what sort of implementation is needed in order to have an effective “change” in businesses/organisations. Things that will be looked at in this essay are communication, management styles and how people involved interprets the change they are experiencing. We now live in the world where change is happening frequently. Things such as technology, government legislations, environment, and business competitors and so on, are responsible for some of the change that is taking place in businesses (Hussey, 2000). Management plays a big part in making sure that every element is looked at before change is implemented. It will best to first look at what change is in business perspective. The www.standard.dfes.gov.uk website defines change in different forms, it states that change could be new materials, new behaviours/practices or new beliefs/understandings. In a way what it is saying is that change is something new to anyone’s routine of doing things.
Throughout the management history there have been some influential figures/theorists who contributed into the theory of management they are Abraham Maslow, Henry Fayol and F.E. Fiedler. Abraham Maslow is much known for his Hierarchy of needs theory. In his theory Maslow explains that every human being is capable of reaching their desired fulfilment (self actualising) as long as their needs are met. He talks about the needs as meeting the psychological factors i.e. hunger, being safe, being loved, having self esteem and self actualisation (www.employment-studies.co.uk).
Contingency theory was created by F.E. Fielder(1970). In his theory Fiedler talks about two styles of leadership, the relationship leader and the task oriented leader he states that there is no correct style of how managers work. This theory uses the
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