Introduction
Through my study of the module “Managing Change,” I found it very interesting, it’s designed to expand the concepts in management knowledge, basic knowledge of management. In the course of your study of the unit, you will be expected to understand all the issues surrounding the concept of change management.
These concepts are ideas of scholars put into practice and thus there is no difficulty. These are general practices applied to organisations in times of change to enable the organisation to manage it amicably. Some aspects of this course attracted my attention; firstly, it increased my analytical skills in that it motivated me to learn more about the issue. I can say it has improved my thinking and understanding of business and management.
In the study of the course, I have increased my understanding of the following areas of managing change.
- Aspects in manufacturing, marketing and competition analysis, discussion on the crisis of reality, including the potential crisis or major crisis,
- Forming a strong leadership background in organizational leadership.
- The formulation of organizational vision, mission and objective and the ways of enabling the managers to cope with change.
- My understanding of media planning strategy has increased my understanding. The aspects of behaviour change within the organisation have also been covered.
- Change and reform the ways of undertaking reforms and risk analysis mechanism. Performance appraisal and improvement mechanisms have been understood.
- Reward and motivation; the course has enabled me to understand the importance and the concepts of motivation and reward in improving the performance of the employees to enable the organisation to function at an optimal level. The process of hiring, training and promotion of the workforce has also been covered.
- The use of a managerial function to influence the performance of both the capital and the labour resources.
- The relationship between enterprises and successful leaders was understood, the ways to ensure it is effective and efficient leadership to ensure development in the organisation.
The growth of any literature is the improvement people add to the existing content, in my study I have identified the following problems associated with management.
First is the achievement and the relationship between the velocity of reform, the reform must pursue stage effect i.e. effect is the result of function and speed. Too many achievements in the organisation can lead to ignorance of the speed of change, it can make changes meaningless. Speed and ignorance of any achievements (won the lowest fruit) can make the whole organisation fail.
Secondly, the organization shape and combination can at times work against the success of the organisation. The connotation of management is to form a team to achieve the objectives of the organization in times of change. To successfully manage this team one must establish a corresponding system that includes human factors in its management.
I learnt these ideas from this course, it can be said that change should be managed since it is inevitable. I also learned how a change in the organization is conducted.
In the course, its aim is perfectly analysed conceptually and clearly. The success of teams in the organisation and how change is managed in the organisation was learned.
Change is an adaptation strategy in the organisation due to the ever-changing environmental factors.
Recommended Authors
Vivien Burr– is a principal lecturer in Psychology at the University of Huddersfield. Her book “Social Constructionism” introduces the area of social science theory and research which had come to be known as social Constructionism. She uses a variety of examples of everyday experiences and issues relevant to social Constructionism.
Jonathan Potter– is a professor of discourse analysis in the Department of Social Sciences at the University of Loughborough. He is the co-author of 6 and over 40 papers in the past 10 years that have provided a focus in social psychology for the study of discourse processes.
Kenneth Gergen– is a senior research professor of Psychology at Swarthmore College USA. Gergen’s work is associated with social Constructionism. He has been a major influence in social psychology since his and P. Davies’s 1967 book on The Self. He is an increasingly respected critic of psychological practice.
Rom Haare– is the Chair of the Sub-department of Philosophy at the University of Oxford and is currently Professor of Social Psychology at Georgetown University, Washington D.C. He has published over 30 books in the past 30 years, both in the Philosophy of Science and the foundations of Social Psychology.
Michel Foucault– was a French philosopher, historian, intellectual, critic and sociologist. He was known for his work on power, and the relationships between power, knowledge, and discourse.
John Shotter – is a professor and chair of the department of communication at the University of New Hampshire. He is one of the founders of the social construction paradigm in social psychology.
Yiannis Gabriel- is a professor of organizational theory at the school of Management, Royal Holloway University of London. Professor Gabriel is well known for his work in organizational storytelling and narratives, management learning and contemporary culture and politics.
Extra-credits
The poem “Thinking is by the Canadian poet, Paul Dutton. It is published in “Word Score Utterance Choreography”
“Language shapes thought, not thought language. And language shapes thought not thought to be language-shapes. Though not thought to be language shapes language, shapes thought, shapes. Thought to be shaped not thought to be language shapes thoughts thought not to be shaped by language. Thought language shapes thought shapes shaped by language thought to be thought. Thought not to be language-shapes shapes language, shapes thought, shapes language-thought. Language thinks. Language thinks shapes are not shaped by language. Language thinks thoughts thought think language. Language thinks language.
Reflection
This poem is a bit headless sequence the first time. But I read one it reminds me of a deeper meaning behind the previous language and how it connected with the idea. My understanding of this poem, language and thought the shape of the living environment that surrounds us (Burr, V 2003) pointed out that “language into being the first to be proposed, based on the experience of human living in the world” but also for the development of language, share their experiences. Burr brought put forward another view, because “the language itself provides a structured way of the world to our experience.” In other significant cultural and linguistic differences, for example, other living creatures on earth have a living environment and language of expression Jiugen is simply not the same as human beings, and even they may not have communication skills.
Definition of Managing Change
Managing change means co-coordinating a number of activities and inter-relationships which enable the organization to survive, and benefit from, the process of change. A major challenge is to achieve the right balance between the short-term pressure for change and longer-term corporate goals.
Change is inherent in contemporary organizational experience and its management is not only critical to organizational success and survival but is also at the crux of the field of organization development. Knowledge of the fundamental aspects of change is defined in terms of a person’s understanding of individual responses to change and the general nature of change. Knowledge of the change process is determined by a person’s understanding of three key processes:
- Planning change
- Managing change (both the “people” side and the “organization” side)
- Evaluating change
It should be noted that each dimension builds on those below it, in other words knowledge of the fundamental aspects of change is critical to the process of planning, managing, and evaluating change.
My Opinions on Managing Strategic Change
Breaking down the several words we can say managing is ‘the process during which the changes of an organization are implemented in a controlled manner by following a pre-defined framework/model with. To some extent, there are some reasonable modifications’. And change is transforming ‘from a current state to a desired future state.
It is widely accepted that change depends on contextual features such as scope, time, preservation, power, diversity, readiness, capability and capacity. When encountering managing change companies would like to simplify organizations to improve high efficiency and enhance the responding speed to the external environment. Firms that conduct managing change will ask their employees to take part in important decisions and firms set up salaries according to work performance of employees. Companies can actively carry out managing change. However, no one denies that almost every change management mechanism has similar flowing processes and targets.
Conclusion
The module enhances my learning experience in the whole university which is definitely a good education module. The teaching style of Tina Bass has been of great help, she uses a practical approach to communication with students, often said that some of the typical life examples. In Advance career development Tina Bass is my teacher. This module has a different approach to change management and is really enjoyable.
Because my standard of English is quite low, there are quite a large number of new words I learnt in this module. I had the opportunity to learn many poems and also understand the concepts.
Social Constructivism Gergen thought to identify and Boerne formed the theoretical basis for this module. I had never studied the social construction approach but now I know that social Constructionism is a powerful and growing influence of psychology. The academic literature consists of a variety of methods, theories and viewpoints. The current challenges of social differentiation are a wide range of knowledge and learning there are many models of traditional knowledge. Nevertheless, they have to work in the social world of the significance of the shape of our acts.
This course open up my ideas, it also gave me the idea of inspiration and adaptation. A panel discussion is an interesting process although there are challenges, they face in their work and stimulate thinking in the same manner.