Organizational Change
Organizational Change
Organizational Change
If you are a business leader today there is one thing that constantly runs through your mind, “How can we continue to succeed and grow.” In today’s society it has become harder and harder to accomplish such a task. The world is ever changing and it does so in a pace that is far more rapid than that of 20 years ago.
Business leaders know that change is inevitable, but where the problem lies is how to manage the change in a way that will allow for continued growth and success, but at the same time they want to be able to do so with as little stress as possible to the employees. There are hundreds of ways to make changes in an organization, and plenty of people out there pitching their ideas as the best.
It is up to the business leaders to find a technique that will best suite their needs as an organization, a technique that will give them the results they are looking for, this is the case with General Motors. General Motors is made up of four different auto makers (Buick, GM, Pontiac and Chevrolet) and each one runs independently from the others. GM decided that having four independently ran divisions, which competed against one another was more costly than beneficial and they searched to find a way to change this for the better.
Organizational Change 3
Change Implementation describes the “actions taken by organizational leaders in order to support strategic renewal and maintain outstanding performance in a dynamic environment.” In GM’s case they needed to find a way to bring all their independent divisions together and put everyone on the same page.
GM executives knew the task of bringing everyone together into a more centralized organization would require everyone, including management to learn a new set of skills that centered around the GM corporation as a whole, rather than four separate entities. They also realized that by doing this they would need to develop some type of support system that would ensure the
Organizational Change
If you are a business leader today there is one thing that constantly runs through your mind, “How can we continue to succeed and grow.” In today’s society it has become harder and harder to accomplish such a task. The world is ever changing and it does so in a pace that is far more rapid than that of 20 years ago.
Business leaders know that change is inevitable, but where the problem lies is how to manage the change in a way that will allow for continued growth and success, but at the same time they want to be able to do so with as little stress as possible to the employees. There are hundreds of ways to make changes in an organization, and plenty of people out there pitching their ideas as the best.
It is up to the business leaders to find a technique that will best suite their needs as an organization, a technique that will give them the results they are looking for, this is the case with General Motors. General Motors is made up of four different auto makers (Buick, GM, Pontiac and Chevrolet) and each one runs independently from the others. GM decided that having four independently ran divisions, which competed against one another was more costly than beneficial and they searched to find a way to change this for the better.
Organizational Change 3
Change Implementation describes the “actions taken by organizational leaders in order to support strategic renewal and maintain outstanding performance in a dynamic environment.” In GM’s case they needed to find a way to bring all their independent divisions together and put everyone on the same page.
GM executives knew the task of bringing everyone together into a more centralized organization would require everyone, including management to learn a new set of skills that centered around the GM corporation as a whole, rather than four separate entities. They also realized that by doing this they would need to develop some type of support system that would ensure the