Essay

Organizational change project

Panesia Kitchen

Professor Hill

Waldorf University

April 19, 2018

Organizational change project

Introduction

In many organizations, the rate at which they conduct their business is increasing. Their employees are becoming happier and more dedicated to the business. One of the things that makes them happier is because of the efficiency they have, the space to do work and then the wages they receive. What makes this possible is due to the adoption of new technology that has reduced the workforce as well as the amount of work done by each employee. It is critical that all organizations may look at what makes them produce at the scale they are in and forge out whether they can do better than that. If so the organizations need to find out what can be done to improve their productivity.

Problem area

Low productivity is as a result of a number of things, the employees are not having enough space to work form. This could mean that they are too many on a very limited space. Another problem could be that the responsibilities assigned to each individual are not being handled properly due to limited qualification (Berman, 2014). Thus less experienced and under qualified staffs are working on huge responsibilities they can’t manage. Another problem could be the use of poor production methods to fulfill responsibilities. Some methods of production are outdated thus requires that organizations may review and look at the new ways to apply productivity procedures to their business operations. Also one of the issues could be that the remunerations by the organizations are low and this makes the staff members not happy.

Strategies

So as to deal with the low productivity of the organizations’ staff’s members, there are a number of strategies that can be employed to increase the efficiency. It is simply reevaluating the academic qualifications of the staffs and then redesigning the responsibilities for them (Berman, 2014). Thus as such, it means that some of the employees are going to be laid off without tending to hire others until such a time that all the responsibilities will have been completely redesigned. This, therefore, means the company will be able to reconsider its technology and then the enumeration packages that will be given after the change process.

Related theory

For this organizational change to take place effectively, then they need to consider Lewin’s Fore- Field Theory of Change is vital. In this theory, Gorge and Jones have described the theory by saying that so many different forces come up based on how an organization conducts its business, its structure composition, the culture as well as the control systems and all these makes it so resistant to change. At the same time, there exists a variety of forces that are caused by the changing tasks, as well as the general environments that are forcing the organizations to embrace change (McGrath, 2017). Therefore, so that an organization may change, managers have to always forge ways to increase the forces for change, reduce the resistance if change or work with both at the same time.

Conclusion

It is therefore very important that organizations may always look at improving their productivity as well as looking for ways to engage their stakeholders adequately and efficiently. Hence, therefore, one of the immediate things that would increase the desired effect is through changing the norms in terms of structure, operations, control systems and the human resources. Hence, therefore, adequate preparations to undertake such a project would be required including capital or funds.

References

Berman, M. (2014). Productivity in Public and Nonprofit Organizations. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis.

McGrath, J. (2017). The little book of big management theories: ... and how to use them. FT Press.