Managing Orgnisation Change

0.0Executive summary:

This report will involve in explaining change management, by using a case study school to apply the ideas on it, which will cover clarifying the change agent role, change processes, its implementation steps as well as people targeted by this change. Following this there will be an evaluation using theoretical concepts from the first stage of change until its completion. Finally there will be some recommendations based on the evaluation and these will be summed up in conclusion.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Executive summary...................................................................... 2

Table of contents......................................................................... 3

Introduction and Background and Scope....................................... 4

Change case study description and reasons for change.................. 5

Substance and resistance of change.............................................. 7

Evaluation.................................................................................... 8

Recommendation …………………………………………..………………….……. 17

Conclusion ………………………………..…………………………………….……….19

References and bibliography …………………………………………….…….. 22

Appendices...........................…………………………………………….…….. 27

1.0 Introduction:

Nowadays the external environment has changed significantly, especially in terms of business management. It can be argued that the external environment has become too complex to cope with for today’s business organisation. In order to respond to these changes, it is necessary for a business to adopt techniques of change management. Accordingly, this management report will define and describe organisational change, and will concentrate on a change situation which happened in a place I worked in before, which is primary school in Riyadh.

2.0 Background and Scope:

Change can be defines as “making or becoming

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