Understanding and Coping with Change Stephanie Anderson BUS610 Organizational Behavior Instructor: Shawna Wentlandt August 19, 2013 We live in exhilarating times. Western civilization is witnessing the greatest changes everywhere since the Industrial Revolution. If we want a deeper understanding of the prospect of change, we are forced to pay heed to our own powerful inclinations to avoid change. Most people have a low tolerance for change because we are individuals of habit that
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concentrate on enhancing productivity, business expansion and financial improvement. Body 1. Did Nestle undergo either first-order and/or second-order change according to the case? Answer listing examples of types of change from the above story. In the case study, Nestle went through major first order change. One of the first-order changes that occurred was in the 1900’s when Nestle changed its approach to global expansion by acquiring subsidies in other countries. Prior to that, Nestle only
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“The Croods will make it because we changed all the rules. The rules that kept us in the dark and because my Dad, who taught us any one can change. From now on, we’ll stay out here where we can follow the light.” - Eep That quote from the movie showed us how much the family has changed through time even though almost all throughout the movie,the father was trying to cling to the idea that the only way for his family to survive is to follow the rules, never to leave the cave at night, they must
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Clearwater Middle School is in the midst of a significant demographic change. The student population is becoming increasingly diverse from a racial, ethnic, and low-socioeconomic perspective. This shift in student population is very challenging for a senior staff of teachers who do not have the teaching experiences or professional training to adapt to this changing student body. Clearwater is also undergoing a conflict in the interpretation of the goals of the school, primarily because the new principal’s
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sudden rise in the number of ‘jobs’ in the country, quick jobs that require little to no supervision or training. Also with the money influx, in the minds of the people, there is a whole perspective on the importance of money (change in lifestyle consumerism). This change is so drastic it even reaches the stage from one’s perspective that everything has a price and can be bought. However, not all people perspectives are changed as there are still some who cling to the old lifestyle and ideal that
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can do differently to correct the mistake. A supportive atmosphere in the organization helps provide employees with open communication to express any ideas or concerns that he or she may have to support the organization new changes. Strategies that can implement change are open culture, openness with customers, market knowledge, state the clear mission or vision, set employee expectations, and to have broad prospective employees. Open culture will allow all employees of the company to get
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conflict Conflict can be characterised by a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one. Individuals who encounter conflict often have the ability to change positively or negatively as a result. Many are changed in terms of their values, personality, temperament and perhaps beliefs. Whilst others often don’t change and remain the initial person they started off to be. In some cases, conflict can alter one’s true self in a rewarding way as it can better a person and create an improved
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Assignment 2: Change Wheel Reflection The world has changed a lot, since I have look at the situations around me. Its feel like is just a couple of days ago when I was a little kid running around my neighborhood. sometimes life is very hard and sometimes have a lot of joy, becoming a father was a great feeling in my life because is something that you expect to happened but the moment when the doctor let you see your son or daughter is so good. There are no words to describe that. And been able
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clear; changes will have to be made. The loss of one of their biggest clients might result in big problems for the company. Although it is clear there is no possibility that Stay & Shop will get back to Chattanooga in the next 2 year, they do have 90 days until Stay & Shop will be gone as a customer. In this small period of time significant changes will have to be made to recover the losses suffered from the loss of this client. In addition, possibilities to make significant changes to the
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Organizational Change Change can be a difficult transition however in the world of business whether it is planned or unplanned one can expect change to happen. The definition of change is, “the coordination of a structured period of transition from situation A to situation B in order to achieve lasting change within an organization”. (BNET Business Dictionary) How the change is accepted and adapted to can be the difference of success or failure of an organization. There are different types of change and
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