Research Paper on "Hr Role in Org Change"

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First, the organization needs to be mentally ready to change. In the Kodak example, that was a company that basically had no idea how to change, because it never had to. When the need to change arose, there was no ability to innovate, no creative thinking. The organization not only lacked the technical skills needed to reshape its business, but it lacked any sort of mindset that would embrace such a challenge.

The second reason why social factors matter is that resistance to change is often a social issue.. The organizational culture can be one that does not facilitate change, but just as important are that the people in positions of influence need to be receptive to change as well. When those who are in such positions are resistors, others will be as well. Training is part of this -- ensuring that leaders at all leaders are truly leaders -- but the acquisition and retention of talent will also influence this element of the change process. Finding ways to remove those who are averse to change plays a role in reshaping the organizational culture and readying the organization for a change process.

While obviously a proactive approach to readying an organization for change is best, there will always be reactions to change, and the more emotional reactions can be challenging. Sociotechnical systems theory makes the case that not only having a social system that encourages a positive response to change is necessary, but that the technical systems need to facilitate change as well. This can mean having the right organizational structure, but also the right resources available. Interventions to manage emotions can be as simple as facilitating someone in performing their new role more easily, so that their resistance level decreases, or structurally reducing the importance of someone who is resistant to change. Further interventions can be to surround the resistor with the positive leaders of change, putting their resistance in an appropriately negative light -- their emotional state will be managed by being surrounded with those who have embraced the change process.

Human resources development can play a significant role in the organization change process. First, it is easier to build an organization that handles change well from the outset, placing emphasis on recruitment and training. Second, even if an organization is forced to change quickly by external forces, human resource development can play a role in defining the jobs needed to execute the change, and ensure that the right leaders are in the right positions to not only spearhead the change, but to ensure that resistance to change is minimized and that emotional resistance in particular is overcome.

References

Kumari, P. & Mishra, R. (2009). Implementing human resource development as a tool for effective organizational change. SSRN Working Paper Series.

Noel, J. & Dennehy, R. (1991). Making HRD a force in strategic organizational change. Industrial and Commercial Training. Vol. 23 (2)

Walker, G., Stanton, N., Salmon, P. & Jenkins, D. (2008). A review of sociotechnical systems theory: A classic concept for new command and control… READ MORE

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