Organizational Culture And Change
Organizational culture and change: Explain how a strategic approach can be taken to deal with employee absence problem?
In order to improve the absence problem of the organization, Human Recourses (HR) manager have to change both the company policies and employees manner toward the absence problem. So, in order to make the change more efficient, HR managers can use those change models such as Lewin’s Model and Kotter’s Eight-Step Model. In this case, the report will apply Kotter’s Eight-Step Model to deal with employee absence problem. According to Biech (2007), by applying Kotter’s Eight-Step Model, HR manager can make the organization change more efficient and they will face fewer obstacles during the process. 8 steps of the model will be analyzed and applied to solve the absence problem in the following part:
Create urgency: The Company must analyze the absence problem. They need to identify the potential threats of the problems and showing to their employees that what are the opportunities if the situation would be changed.
Form a Powerful Coalition: In order to convince people to change, strong leadership is often needed. Therefore, a team of key employees who have influence over other employees need to be formed. These people will play an important role in following steps such as to create a vision for change.
Create a Vision for Change: This is when the HR manager identifies the key vision of the change and the strategy that can help company achieving that vision. The key vision and objectives in this situation is to reduce the employee absence problem. There are many approached that can be used in order to achieve that objectives. For example: setting new rules and penalties for those who are usually absence. Preparing a plan to replace the key employees if they being absence.
Communicate the Vision: The team coalition will have to communicate the change to the other employees. If there are any concerns about the change, key members in the team
In order to improve the absence problem of the organization, Human Recourses (HR) manager have to change both the company policies and employees manner toward the absence problem. So, in order to make the change more efficient, HR managers can use those change models such as Lewin’s Model and Kotter’s Eight-Step Model. In this case, the report will apply Kotter’s Eight-Step Model to deal with employee absence problem. According to Biech (2007), by applying Kotter’s Eight-Step Model, HR manager can make the organization change more efficient and they will face fewer obstacles during the process. 8 steps of the model will be analyzed and applied to solve the absence problem in the following part:
Create urgency: The Company must analyze the absence problem. They need to identify the potential threats of the problems and showing to their employees that what are the opportunities if the situation would be changed.
Form a Powerful Coalition: In order to convince people to change, strong leadership is often needed. Therefore, a team of key employees who have influence over other employees need to be formed. These people will play an important role in following steps such as to create a vision for change.
Create a Vision for Change: This is when the HR manager identifies the key vision of the change and the strategy that can help company achieving that vision. The key vision and objectives in this situation is to reduce the employee absence problem. There are many approached that can be used in order to achieve that objectives. For example: setting new rules and penalties for those who are usually absence. Preparing a plan to replace the key employees if they being absence.
Communicate the Vision: The team coalition will have to communicate the change to the other employees. If there are any concerns about the change, key members in the team
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