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Images of Managing Change
Chapter 2
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Learning Objectives Understand the importance of organizational
images and mental models Identify different images of managing and of
change outcomes Outline six different images of managing
change Identify the theoretical underpinnings these
six change management images Understand the practical implications of the
six images and how to use them
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IMAGES OF MANAGING CHANGE (1)
The images we hold of organizations affect our interpretations of:
These images, sometimes referred to as metaphors, frames, or perspectives, are held by us
often without our being aware either of their existence or of how they affect our thinking,
perceptions, and actions.
• What we think is going on• What we think needs to happen• How we think things should happen
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IMAGES OF MANAGING CHANGE (2)
These images, act as mental models, pointing us in certain directions in order to make sense of things going on around us.
Organizations = “Machine”
•We are aware of potential “breakdown
•Our role as Maintaining or Fixing them
Organizations = Political
Arena
•Seeking out hidden agendas behind decisions
•Try to identify who wins and who loses
•Our role as building coalitions, gathering support, stimulating
conflict
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IMAGES OF MANAGING CHANGE (3)
Organizations =Mini societies
Or culture
•Searching for the “the way things get done around here”•How to encourage the organizational values
that best aligned to the type ofwork that we do
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IMAGES OF MANAGING CHANGE (4)
The images that we hold, both
of managing and of change, influence our ideas of what we think managing
change is all about.
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IMAGES OF MANAGINGMANAGEMENT AS CONTROL
Underlies characterization of management as involving activities such as Planning, Organizing, Commanding, Coordinating,
and Controlling.Associated with a top-down, hierarchical
view of managing.The organization is treated as if it is a
Machine.
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MANAGEMENT AS CONTROL
It is up to Managers:To drive the Machine in specific directionsTo tell people what their roles will beTo allocate resources (inputs) so that theMachine can perform efficiently To produce necessary products or services(outputs)
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MANAGEMENT AS SHAPING
Managing is being about shaping an organization and what happens in it.
An image associated with a participative style of managing in which people are encouraged to be involved in decisions and to help identify how things can be done better.
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MANAGEMENT AS SHAPING
Managing people is therefore about shaping their behavior in ways that encourage them to take actions of most benefit to the organization.
It is through such shaping actions that organizational capabilities are enhanced.
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IMAGES OF CHANGE OUTCOMES
Intended (Planned) Change Outcomes
Partially Intended Change Outcomes
Unintended Change Outcomes
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INTENDED CHANGE OUTCOMES
The dominant assumption is that intended change outcomes can be achieved.
Change is treated as the realization of prior intent through the action of change managers.
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THREE BROAD STRATEGIES FOR PRODUCING INTENTIONAL CHANGE
Assume that people are rational and follow their own self-interest. Effective change occurs when a change can be demonstrated as desirable and aligned with the interests of the group affected by the change.
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THREE BROAD STRATEGIES FOR PRODUCING INTENTIONAL CHANGE
Assume that changes occur when people dispense with their old, normative orientations and gain commitment to new ones.
Involve changes in people knowledge, information, attitudes and values.
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THREE BROAD STRATEGIES FOR PRODUCING INTENTIONAL CHANGE
Rely upon achieving intentional change by those who with greater power gaining compliance in behavior from those with lesser power.
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Change intentions are only partially achievable:
Power, processes, interests, and the different skill levels of managers affect their ability to produce intentional change outcomes.
Intended outcomes may be adapted along the way.
Externally imposed forces and factors may modify what was originally intended.
PARTIALLY INTENDED CHANGE OUTCOMES
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Managers often have difficulty in achieving intentional change outcomes:
There are a variety of internal and external forces that either lead to change outcomes that are not intended by Managers (they are forced on to them) or inhibit the ability of Managers to implement the changes that they desire.
Internally e.g. departmental or inter-unit politics. Externally e.g. legislation that mandates various
requirements if an organization is to continue to function.These forces are typically viewed as being much more
powerful than the influence wielded by individual change managers.
UNINTENDED CHANGE OUTCOMES
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SIX IMAGES OF MANAGING CHANGE
Images of Managing
Images ofChange
Outcomes
Controlling(activities)
Shaping(capabilities)
DIRECTORIntended
Partially intended
Unintended
NAVIGATOR
CARETAKER
COACH
INTERPRETER
NURTURER
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CHANGE MANAGER AS DIRECTOR
Up to the Change Manager to direct the organization in particular ways in order to produce the required change.
For example, if a Change Manager decides that it is important to realign the organization to changes in the environment by introducing a new IT-system throughout the organization.
Then it is assumed that this can be done, will work well, the outcome will be a better-performing, better-aligned organization.
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Theoretical Underpinning of the Director Image
“n-step” models or theories of change that assume the image of the Change Manager as Director.
An optimistic view that intentional change can be achieved – as long as the Change Manager follows the correct step that need to be taken.
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Change Manager as Navigator
Control still the heart of management action,
Change Manager may achieve some intended change outcomes, but others will occur over which they have little control
Outcomes are at least partly emergent rather than completely planned
This is as a result from variety of influences,competing interest, and processes
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A Change Manager may wish to restructure his business unit by putting cross-functions teams in place in order to assist product development across the different business functions.
While a Change Manager may be able to formally establish teams (an intentional outcomes), his ability to get them to work effectively may be minimal because:
CHANGE MANAGER AS NAVIGATOR
•A History of Distrust•Hoarding of Information•Boundary Protection by Functional Units
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Theoretical Underpinning the Navigator Image
The Contextualist or Processual theories of Change.
Based on assumption that Change unfolds differently over time and according to the context in which the organization finds itself.(similar to contingency)
Change courses may need to be plotted, and then replotted as new information comes to light and variations are made.
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The image of management is still one of control, although the ability to
exercise control is severely constrained by a variety of forces,
both internally and externally driven, that propel change relatively
independent of manager’s intentions.
CHANGE MANAGER AS CARETAKER
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Change Managers may give their best intentions to implement activities to encourage entrepreneurial and innovative behavior.
They may feel this is a continually failing exercise as the:
CHANGE MANAGER AS CARETAKER
Organization grows, becomes more bureaucratic and enacts strategic planning cycles, rules, regulations,
and centralized practices.
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Theoretical Underpinning the Image of Caretaker (Organizational Theory)
Stages from Birth to Growth, Maturity, and then Decline or Death
These stages are part of the natural, developmental cycle of organizations
There is little Change Managers can do to stop this natural development
At best Change Managers are Caretaker of the organization as it passes through the various stages
Limited roles, helping to smooth the various transitions rather than controlling
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Theoretical Underpinning the Image of Caretaker (Organizational Theory)
Population ecologists focus on how the environment selects organizations for survival and extinction
Organizational variation can occur as the result of random chance
Organizational selection can occur when an environment selects organizations that are best fit to its condition
Organizational retention consists of forces that retain various organizational forms (counterinfluence to forces of variation & selection)
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Theoretical Underpinning the Image of Caretaker (Organizational Theory)
Change Managers take similar actions across whole population of organizations
The similarity of actions they take occurs through pressures associated with the interconnectedness of organizations within an industry or environment
Three Pressures :Coercive (Government-mandated Change)
MimeticNormative
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In the Coach image, the assumption is that Change Managers are able to intentionally shape the organization’s capabilities in particular ways.
The Coach relies upon building in the right set of Values, Skills, and “Drills” that are deemed to be the best ones.
CHANGE MANAGER AS COACH
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Theoretical Underpinning the Image of Coach
The traditional Organization Development theory reinforces the Change Manager as Coach image
Implementation of Change that stresses the importance of humanism, democracy, and individual development to organizational life
The traditional OD act as a Coach by helping to “structure activities to help the organization members solve their own problems and learn to do that better”
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The interpreter places the Change Managers in the position of creating
meaning for other organizational members, helping them to make sense of various organizational events and actions.
CHANGE MANAGER AS INTERPRETER
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May exist competing meanings about the change: Change Managers may endeavor to portray it as a
way of strengthening the organization and so enable better protection of jobs of those who remain,
Other organizational members may tell different stories, interpreting it as inevitable, given the changed environment of the organization;
Alternatively, they may present the fact of downsizing as evidence of management’s incompetence, or as an underhanded way of getting rid of some politically troublesome individuals or even departments but in the name of making organization more efficient.
CHANGE MANAGER AS INTERPRETER
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Theoretical Underpinning the Image of Interpreter
Present in Karl Weick’s Sense-making theory of Organizational Change
A central focus is needed on the structuring processes and flows through which organizational work occurs
Organizations in an on-going state of accomplishment and re-accomplishment with organizational routines constantly undergoing adjustments to better fit changing circumstances
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Four Sense-Making Drivers of Organizational Change
Through Animation – whereby people remain in motion e.g. with job descriptions
By Direction – including being able to implement in novel ways direct strategies
By Paying Attention and Updating – Updating Knowledge of the environment and rewriting organizational requirements
Through Respectful, Candid Interaction – people are encouraged to speak out, particularly when things are not working well
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The nurturing image to managing change assumes that even small changes may have a large impact on organizations and managers are not able to control the outcome of these changes.
Like a parent’s relationship with a child, future outcomes are nurtured or shaped, but the ability to produced intended outcomes at the end of the day is severely limited because of the impact of much wider, sometime chaotic forces and influences.
CHANGE MANAGER AS NURTURER
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Theoretical Underpinning of Image Nurturer
Chaos TheoryAssumes that organizational change is nonlinear,
fundamental, and does not necessarily entail growth.
Companies continuously regenerate themselves through adaptive learning and interactive structural change.
These efforts periodically result in the spontaneous emergence of a whole new dynamic order, through a process called self-organization.
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Chaos Theory and Change Management Roles
Change Management Actions Core ElementsManaging Transitions •Destabilize people
•Get them involved in decision making and problem solving
Building resilience Provide people with the ability to absorb change
Destabilizing the system •Reate a state of tension•Seek disconfirmation of organizational beliefs•Act as a devil’s advocate•Seek to nurture creativity needed to cope with the chaotic environment in which organizations operate
Managing order and disorder, the present and the future
Provide balance between a need for order and a need for change
Creating and maintaining a learning organization
Facilitate ways in which continuous learning is available to everyone in the organizationChapter 2 38
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Using the Six-Images Framework
Surfacing Our Assumptions about ChangeBeing aware of these images enables change
managers to assess the assumptions that are being made by others with whom they are working with.
Resulting from this assessment may be actions to reorient the images others have of the particular change in which they are involved.
Assessing Dominant Images of Change Using Multiple Images and Perspectives of
ChangeChapter 2 39
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H-P: Leadership Over the Years
David Packard and Bill Hewlett (1938-1978) Started the company. Created an informal, egalitarian culture where brilliant engineers
could shine. John Young (1978-1992)
Oversaw HP’s rise into a major computer company. Efforts to exert control led to bureaucracy that got HP badly
bogged down. Lew Platt (1992-1999)
Operations expert and devoted practitioner of the HP Way Unable to prepare HP for the next big wave: the Internet
Source: http://www.businessweek.com/1999/99_31/b3640001.htm
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Leadership Example: Carly Fiorina at HP
Hired in 1999; known for brand-building and leadership skills at Lucent
Read article What was her leadership style at HP? Why did it not work at HP? Would Fiorina’s leadership style work at a
different kind of company? Contrast with Mark Hurd, current CEO