Sustainability as a Change Management Challenge: Floors ‘R’ World Case
0.0 Sustainability as a Change Management Challenge: Floors ‘R’ World Case
0.1 Question 1: The application of the three change management theories (The Individual Perspective School, the Group Dynamics School, the Open Systems School) for the Floors ‘R’ World case and the evaluation of the different alternative strategies the organization’s management could employ to drive change and motivate employees. Question 2: Which of the three schools discussed in Question 1 best explains the situation at Floors ‘R’ World? What would be this school’s focus for driving change and what would be the implications of such an approach for managing change in the organization?
0.2 For: CEM Assignments Office
Date: 19/03/2014
0.3 From: Deniz Berkan Unsal
Moscow, Russian Federation
1.0 Summary
In the last few decades, limited resources of the world put pressure on societies. Consequently, the concept of the sustainability has become widespread in the business world in order to meet the demand of the society. Under the name of the Corporate Social Responsibility, companies run sustainability activities for staying competitive in their industries in the recent years. Nevertheless, besides commercial concerns, the ethical aspect of the sustainability requires an organizational sense for the implementation.
As a result of these facts, sustainability has also become a popular change management challenge for companies since it requires an organizational change. Conscience dimension of the sustainability also generates extra challenges for choosing the accurate change management approach for driving the change. The mental change of individuals plays a crucial role for adapting the sustainability to the organizational culture. During the different stages of the change process, the combination of the individual, the group and the organization approaches can be applied in order to build up a dynamic organizational sustainability culture.
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0.1 Question 1: The application of the three change management theories (The Individual Perspective School, the Group Dynamics School, the Open Systems School) for the Floors ‘R’ World case and the evaluation of the different alternative strategies the organization’s management could employ to drive change and motivate employees. Question 2: Which of the three schools discussed in Question 1 best explains the situation at Floors ‘R’ World? What would be this school’s focus for driving change and what would be the implications of such an approach for managing change in the organization?
0.2 For: CEM Assignments Office
Date: 19/03/2014
0.3 From: Deniz Berkan Unsal
Moscow, Russian Federation
1.0 Summary
In the last few decades, limited resources of the world put pressure on societies. Consequently, the concept of the sustainability has become widespread in the business world in order to meet the demand of the society. Under the name of the Corporate Social Responsibility, companies run sustainability activities for staying competitive in their industries in the recent years. Nevertheless, besides commercial concerns, the ethical aspect of the sustainability requires an organizational sense for the implementation.
As a result of these facts, sustainability has also become a popular change management challenge for companies since it requires an organizational change. Conscience dimension of the sustainability also generates extra challenges for choosing the accurate change management approach for driving the change. The mental change of individuals plays a crucial role for adapting the sustainability to the organizational culture. During the different stages of the change process, the combination of the individual, the group and the organization approaches can be applied in order to build up a dynamic organizational sustainability culture.
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References: ° CEM (2013) Strategic and Change Management in Real Estate and Construction, Papers 55-57-58-273-284, Reading: The College of Estate Management. ° Tripon C and Dodu M (2011) A theory of organizational readiness for change CHANGE MANAGEMENT AND ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT [online] ° Weiner B J (2009) A theory of organizational readiness for change A theory of organizational readiness for change [online] 19 October ° Wilhelm K (2013) Understanding Change Management to Guide Implementation of Sustainability. Financial Times [online], 30 September. Available at: http://www.ftpress.com/articles/article. aspx?p=2137184 [Accessed 13 February 2014].