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Define (with multiple views) what is meant by change
Define (with multiple views) what is meant by change management
Identify the different forms of change
Discuss the factors that facilitate change, especially in organisations
Discuss the effects of change within organisations
Outline the reasons for resistance to change
Describe the impact of a change intervention to an organisation and its employees
Explain how various theoretical approaches to change management can enhance the
process
• Outline the role of managers to the change management process
• Describe the challenges of change
• Outline the strategies employees can use to cope with change
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• As a process that is always challenging ( Burke (2002)
• As a essential in the modern organisation ( Szamosi & Duxbury,
2002)
• Change management can involve an entire organisation and its
actors, making it a multi-layered phenomenon ( Lathan 2014)
• A necessity for organisational survival and growth ( Belias &
Koustelios 2014)

What is change ?
• Multiple definitions of change exist in the literature
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• Changing as consisting of motion against time on a trajectory ( Ford &
Ford 1994) hence no separation from time
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Forms of change
third order change (3)
• Change that relates to the empowerment of organisational members
• Ensuring that people identify their current management philosophy and
implement change according to discrepancies or shortfalls in the current
management style
• Also known as transformational change
• Involves a massive scope of change, in which organisational goals, culture,
structure, and leadership
• These may lead and leave the organisation to an unknown future
• Resistance from employees , both management and non management , for fear
of the unknown, loss of control, disrupted habits, and mostly fear of economic
loss and benefits
• Is usually happens during company mergers, when small companies are
swallowed by big , monopoly corporations
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• Such stress emanates from the fear of the unknown and particularly
economic loss
• The right time for both management and all employees to be
exposed to and engaged in social support practices as well as family –
friendly programmes for everyone to cope with stress
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Factors influencing Change
Social issues
• Consists of the factors that involve people in the neighbourhoods
communities and societies that they live and work in
• How events and activities in societies and communities not only affect the
sustainable livelihood of such communities, but how , in essence, these
events flow into organisation
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• Policies like RDP, GEAR, AsgiSA and the NGP
• The role of social factors in influencing organisational change intervention
• These resulted to the development of further policies like, affirmative
action aimed at addressing imbalances from the past in current work
context
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Factors influencing Change
Globalisation
• This is another major factor that creates change
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• It stimulates the movement of goods, services and products, as well as people and, most
importantly communication from one end of the world to another, and between all parts of the
world as never before
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• Doing so will need organisations to be relevant by hiring people from different nationalities who
speak different languages, diverse in terms of age, ethnicities, education and gender
• The diverse workforce may bring fear and nervousness to some employees as some will be laid
off
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• Employees will have to be computer literate , continually trained and updated in their digital
skills
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Factors influencing Change
Changing values and demographics
• Changes in values from generation to genera

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