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MANAGING AND
IMPLEMENTING CHANGE IN
THE WORKPLACE
NCEMA – NATIONAL EMERGENCY CRISIS AND
DISASTERS MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY

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INTRODUCTION
NCEMA is the UAE's one pioneer organization made for the purpose of helping the UAE
government in cases of national emergencies or disasters
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For any nation, it is the government's responsibility to
provide safety and security to the lives of the citizens
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In addition, they need to
ensure the quality of life by placing standard public safety regulations
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The
organization has been established to provide guidelines to the citizens for natural hazards like
floods, tropical cyclones, earthquakes, thunderstorms, etc
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In the later paragraphs, this
report will call attention to why it is necessary to have changes in the organization and what
sort of changes are required and their timings
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For any organization, when a change is implemented, it affects the employees it allows them
to learn new skills and gain expertise by taking new opportunities and also helps them
overcome their fears or change their preexisting skills
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One of the aspects of
change is that it is important to undergo necessary changes to remain competitive in the
market
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THE REASONS FOR CHANGE IN AN ORGANIZATION
Virtually every organization goes through significant changes in its lifetime
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The reason
for changes in NCEMA could be any like its organizational culture, the underlying
technologies or infrastructure or its current methods of operation
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Man-made
activities do not cause all-natural disasters, some might arise due to natural disturbances like
floods
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In the last 20 years, the UAE has faced various earthquakes and tropical storms
(Dhanhani, Duncan and Chester, 2010)
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Some threats can be avoided before they occur, and some threats can be easily
withdrawn if the organization takes action and is prepared beforehand
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Just like, in UAE, the heatwaves
and high rising temperatures till October are considered normal now
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Due to the implementation of these changes, notable results have been
obtained, like a reduction in death and property losses
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Hence, the organization is forming
strategies to mitigate and respond to the identified disasters' effects
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The CBDM
strategies have been considered highly important as the global climate has been changing, the
increase in world population and a high linkage among top-down governmental and
community level responses
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Due to this, the organization has undergone changes that need to be
implemented, like expanding its contacts to warn the citizens of any natural calamity
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This will be done through
radio waves and a broadcasting system to reach them
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This change is brought in order to respond quickly to the people in case of any
emergency as the entire world is going through global warming and climate change
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Previously the warning messages were only given in English and Arabic;
however, due to the presence of more foreigners in the UAE now, warning messages have
also been given in other languages so that the entire population of the UAE is aware of the
natural disaster
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Political factors – according to the political factor in NCEMA, no matter there are
seven emirates having individual governmental organizations, but they have flexible
management across the UAE; hence, due to fewer conflicts among the emirates, all
the governmental bodies have supported the organization since the beginning so that
the organization is able to achieve their core objectives
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Due to
this strong support from the government, the organization is looking for ways to alter
their existing practices and cater to people by researching where they live and what
language they speak/prefer
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Even today, the organization has various departments that
hire employees, and even people aged 60+ are also working full-time job (News |
Media Center | The Supreme Council for National Security | National Emergency
Crisis and Disasters Management Authority, 2022)
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Due to an increase in the number of
chances of natural calamity, the organization is not only hiring locals but also
foreigners too, resulting in higher chances of foreign direct investments
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Social factors – the government of UAE's main objective is to give a stable and good
life to its citizens
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For this the programs to become a volunteer as they

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try to create awareness regarding the natural hazards
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Hence, NCEMA is one of the
organizations that have installed technologies that provide a quick and efficient
response
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Another technological
factor is that since the UAE comprises many foreigners and young-aged groups, they
are tech-savvy, which allows companies all across UAE to bring advance technology
into their organization
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Environmental factors – UAE is a land of hot, dry climate that usually results in low
productivity, resulting in more use of air conditions
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Hence, this has created a more alarming situation for the company
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Hence there are high chances of hurricanes
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Hence, internal and
external factors related to this are essential to form the guidelines for the
organizations (Bush, 2016)
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From the PESTEL analysis, the changes that have been induced
related to political change is that the approval to get the needs of the people living across the
UAE was the translation of public service messages into different languages
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This will
increase the effectiveness of high-quality translations of the messages sent to the citizens
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Since the UAE has people belonging to various ethnicities, it
is an opportunity for NCEMA to embrace diversity that could further broaden the talent pool
of the employees resulting in making the organization competitive and innovative
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Hence, bringing digital technologies to NCEMA within the
organization would lead to automatic communication and can also store data at various
locations
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From the environmental factors, since the UAE is located near various coastal
areas
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RISK AND BENEFITS OF THE OPPORTUNITIES
When an organization is trying to put change while its implementation, there is a possibility
of risks; once the risks are brought to an insignificant level, the change that is brought to the
organization will bring benefits, NCEMA has been working on bringing digital technology
into the organization
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This allows NCEMA to have an awareness of
what are the conditions of these technological changes
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In addition, one of the benefits is that bringing this information allows the company to
completely transform so that people in the organization can learn to communicate and work
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Another disadvantage is that, since
digital technology has much faster speed hence, for employees that work in UAE have low
productivity resulting inefficient use of technology (Poutintsev, 2022)
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For an organization
like NCEMA, it is important that the organization create teams that have the best skills and
understand what the job is and what is the value of this job
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One of the important aspects is to
allow the team members to actively take part in the change process so that it is easy to bring a
change
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In order to reach the goal, the
management at NCEMA may put a key performance indicator so that desired outcome can be
achieved
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Hence, the management at NCEMA shall ensure
that when a change is implemented, it is according to the plan
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Hence NCEMA shall figure out how to address any surprises that might occur during
change implementation
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Hence, it is important that the communication
is clear to the employees what needs to be done if a natural disaster occurs (Developing a
Change Management Plan | The Chicago School, 2021)
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Due to the
past global environmental changes caused due to carbon emissions and deforestation, hence
for an organization like NCEMA it is important to shift to a proactive basis in order to keep
up with the mark of the changing situation globally
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