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Why Change Management Fails?

Change management is a structured approach to transitioning individuals, teams, and organizations

from a current state to a desired future state. It is an organizational process aimed at empowering

employees to accept and embrace changes in their current business environment. Change management

is crucial to the survival and development oforganizations, the more effectively an organisation deal

with change, and the more likely the organisationis to thrive. However there are a large number of

failures of change management. Organizational change itself is a considerably complex activity; any tiny

mistake in change management could lead to the failure of organizational change. Hence, it is important

to look at the failure of change management from four perspectives namely leadership, culture, people

issues and quick response encompassing all aspects of an organisation.

FAILURE OF THE TRANSFORMATION OF LEADERSHIP

y Leadership style can vary according to the different characteristics of differentorganizationalsituations. However leadership style should be changedaccording to different

situations, if not, it would result in the death of organizations, or failure ofchange management

strategies.

y Example: HP Hewlett-Packard (HP) paid attention to thetransformation of leadership from stable,autonomous business environment to unstableenvironment, and finally gained the good outcomes

of change management.

FAILURE FROM NOT FULLY APPRECIATING THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CULTURE ISSUES

y Considerations must be given to managingorganizational culture or even changing the strategy totake account of the culture in change

y Example:Salomon SmithBarney,& City groups investment bank merger is a perfect example todemonstrate that culture issues are considerably important for successfulchange management.

FAILURE OF MANAGERS PAYING ATTENTION TO THE SIGNIFICANCE OF PEOPLE ISSUES

y Human resources are considerably important to the success oftodays change management. Failureto attend to the concerns of the people is one of biggest mistakes in the process of change

management.

y Many a time in large part people within formal organizations resist changes because theyperceivethat organizational change will break their established and familiar workingenvironment, and

threaten their self-valued interests.Hence, it becomes important for managers to lead his/her

subordinates towards change &help them in adapting to external environment changes quickly.

y Example :1960S LEEDS The example pertains to inability of the suit companies that used todominate their markets to shift direction when consumer tastes change or when new

technologycomes along. Hence, it is requisite to try to substantiate that a quick and proper

response to the external environmentchanges is very important to change management.

KAMAL LOCHAN

MS-29

FMS, Delhi