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Managing Organization Change

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Managing organizational change is one of the most important aspects in the development of success in an organization. For instance, various positional shifts can be done in a company, where professionals are sacked, resign or retired. When this occurs, then new employees come in to make an impact on the company. The examples of such companies are Sony and Nokia, two phone and accessories manufacturing companies that have had problems in the past. In both, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) was laid off due to some hitches at the companies.

Focusing on Sony, the company has a wide range of products being manufactured, including phones, computers, and video games among other electronics. However, it developed issues that needed to be addressed urgently and so the CEO acted as a sacrificial object. This came about when Sony programming facilities were hacked into in 2011.The then CEO, Mr. Howard Stringer had to lose his CEO Job afterwards due to this slump (Sweney, 2011). This was just one of the reasons for Sony’s turmoil, with issues such as economic meltdown being discussed. Something strange in the reshuffling was that Mr. Stringer claimed to have recommended his successor, Mr. Hirai on replacing him to the Board of Directors (Biggs, 2012).

On the other side, Nokia had a different storyline. This is because the company had accepted to give its production rights to Microsoft, who owned the company. However, even before Mr. Stephen Elop got onto the ranks and the merger, the former CEO, Olli-PekkaKallasvuo parted ways with the company in the year 2010 (Davis, 2010). This was due to the fact that under his leadership, Nokia was unable to challenge other phone manufacturing companies in the production of products having android platform. Nokia still remained in the era of the Symbian platform, whereas the other competitors such as Google and Apple performed better with their smartphones. Therefore, these two companies have shown that organizational change is very crucial in tracking the company’s steps in success

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