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Managing organizational change is done by focusing on behavior (individual and group)‚ organizational structure‚ and processes. On the other hand‚ Leading Change by John P. Kotter underscores the differences between management and leadership. Strong and effective leadership is required for successful transformations of organizations. Kotter reasons that an unsuccessful transformation can be attributed to errors in the following stages: establishing a sense of urgency‚ creating the guiding coalition‚ developing
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The Heart of Change‚ written by John P. Kotter and Dan S. Cohen‚ reflects upon change and its influence on organizations. Kotter and Cohen claim that change is the only constant. By focusing on change management through the behaviors of people‚ the authors claim that an eight step process to alter organizational changes is possible and can lead to successful outcomes. The author demonstrates the success of change management through real life scenarios that influenced and motivated change in that
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the contrary; to change is one of the biggest challenges faced by companies‚ both large and small‚ ever. Companies‚ in respond to their internal and external challenges‚ are trying to make a transformation effort to be a better competitor. John P. Kotter‚ a Harvard Professor who has spent 30 years observing the process of change‚ came out with a journal and later a book titled Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail. His article is basically talking about what distinguish between the successful
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constant throughout every aspect of our lives. Even with its consistent nature and ever presence‚ it is our human nature to avoid and resist it. The Heart of Change‚ by John Kotter and David Cohen (2002)‚ shows the processes by which all the negative atmosphere around change can be made to be positive and change can be effective. Kotter and Cohen focus on redirecting attitudes about change and minimizing the disruptions and aberrations caused by change. The pair lay out an eight step method of effectively
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large-scale change management efforts” (Stragalas‚ 2010‚ p. 31). The Kotter Change Model does not provide organizations with a step by step approach‚ but with a broad framework in which an organization can design the phases to best meet its needs and corporate culture. In addition‚ Kotter’s model acknowledges that time is needed for an organization to accept and embrace change and truly transform. The first three stages of
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Change”‚ book and the concepts presented by Ivancevich‚ Konopaske‚ and Matteson’s‚ Organizational Behavior and Management text book. Kotter wrote and gave comparative situations on dealing with human behavioral and how to better manage them when presented in an organizational situation. He gave real life stories of events that happened in organizational situation. Kotter showed how the employees and team members became motivated and how they overcame obstacles in his book. Organizational Behavior and
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each part of the organization. The pressure of being a manager is not as easy as what people think‚ they tend to be efficient and effective in the same time. In an article in the Harvard Business Review‚ “What effective general managers really do”‚ (Kotter‚ 2000) examined the reality of what many managers really do that seems inefficient and contrasting what Henry Mintzberg has pointed out. He found out that their activities are mostly unplanned‚ sometimes seems to be unimportant and they do lots of
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Organizational Behavior and Management: We Go Hand and Hand Submitted by LaTascha Durden Prepared for Betty Rottman MNGT 5590 Organizational Behavior Summer 2013 Webster University 20 July 2013 INTRODUCTION According to Kotter and Cohen‚ change is successful when you make people feel differently. How one feels or their perception of their work environment will impact production‚ efficiency‚ and retention. Emphasis is placed on the “see-feel-change” dynamic. Within many
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Abstract This paper compares and contrasts the concepts found on John P. Kotter’s‚ Leading Change (1996)‚ book and the concepts presented by John M. Ivancevich‚ Robert Konopske and Michael T. Mattenson’s Organizational Behavior and Management text book. Kotter emphasizes in each step the importance of dealing with human emotions and how to better manage them when dealing with organizational change. The biggest asset to an organization is their human resources. To an organization this simply means that
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