Monday, January 27, 2020

Change is required for the effective working of the organisation

Change is required for the effective working of the organisation Abstract In every organisation the change is required for the effective working of the organisation, in order for the better performance the employees or the management of the organisation implement a strategic change management timely when the need is required for the organisation to stand well in the business and the change management plays a very important role when it will be implemented when it is required and will give the organisation to rise its standards even more to great heights. In the similar fashion a proper change management has been implemented by the employs of Satyam Computer Services Pvt.Ltd to stand back in the business market and to make its organisation back in working condition when the organisation got collapsed due to improper management. With its effective strategic change management the organisation regained the lost customer and client relationships, with the help of integrated change management policy the organisation set some new approach to deliver sustained success to the unit in improving the effective functioning of the organisation, with an appropriate selection process, rewards in performance and an proper change management process the organisation could tackle the problems, after thr review on this assignment we could grasp some knowledge on the required change management and its implementation on any organisation when it needs an Change management. Change Management: activities involved in (1) defining and instilling new values, attitudes, norms, and behaviours within an organization that support new ways of doing work and overcome resistance to change; (2) building consensus among customers and stakeholders on specific changes designed to better meet their needs, and (3) planning, testing, and implementing all aspects of the transition from one organizational structure or business process to another. http://www.gao.gov/special.pubs/bprag/bprgloss.htm There are 3 models in change management they are: McKinsey 7-S Model Tom Peters and Robert waterman created the McKinsey 7-S Model, while they were working for McKinsey and company, and even by Richard Pascale and Anthony Athos at a meeting in 1978 (12 manage, 2007). The McKinsey 7-S Model is a holistic approach to a company or an organisation, which collectively determines how the company will operate (12 manage, 2007). In this model there are seven different factors which are the part of the model which will work with this model, and they are. Shared values Strategy Structure System Style Staff Skills The pictorial image of the 7 factors of McKinsey 7-S Model Briefing about the factors Shared values This factor has been placed in the centre of the model because it is what the organisation believes in and stands for, such as mission of the organisation (12 manage 2007). Strategy Here strategy represents the status of the organisation or what the organisation plans to react to any changes of its external surroundings (recklies, 2007). Structure Structure is the present or the future shape of the organisation Systems The systems are the rules and regulation, process and procedures and routines that characterize the method of the work to be done. Staff Staff is quiet obvious in the fact that it is a proper representation of who is employed by the organisation and what they do within the organisation (12 Manage, 2007). Style Signifies the organisational culture and management styles that are utilized within the organisation (12 Manage, 2007). Skills They indicate the abilities and competencies of either the employees or the organization holistically (12Manage, 2007).   Advantages of the McKinsey 7-S Model : The benefits of this model are It is an effective way to diagnose and understand the organisation. It is an guide for organisational change It is a combination of both rational and emotional constituents. All the factors are interrelated, so all portions must be addressed focused (12 Manage,2007). Disadvantages of McKinsey 7-S Model The major disadvantage is that this model ignores differences (Morgan, n.d.). After five years many of the companies that used this model fell from the top (Morgan, n.d.).   Lewins Change Management Model Lewins Change management model was created by Kurt lewin ( mind tools,2007), Kurt lewin has recognized the three stages of change, which are still widely used they are ( Syque, 2007) Unfreeze Transition (Change) Refreeze Unfreeze: The lewins model explains about the people who tend to or who stay in safe zone and are hesitant of the change like when there is no change they feel comfortable and when any change has taken place they feel uncomfortable, while to overcome this the freezed state the organisation provides an motivation. Motivation is important to any organisation, even though if there is no change. Transition (change) The transition period is when the change is occurring, which is voyage and not a step (Syque, 2007), generally the time for transition takes longer as the people do not like change. Another important part of this stage is about reassurance which is good for the organisation as well as the employees. When the transitional voyage ends then starts the next stage thats unfreeze. Unfreeze Unfreeze is a stage where the organisation or the company again gets stable condition, like the stage where the organisation regains the same or an good mode of business. (Syque, 2007) Advantages of the Lewins Change Management Model : Here the advantage for this model has good points than the previous model as this model has better understandable steps and has fewer steps, this is most efficient model to be used in these days. Disadvantages of the Lewins Change Management Model : The Lewins Change Management Model has also got some disadvantages and main is about that it is timely, that means to any change to take place it will take time. Another disadvantage is about the refreezing period, like many people are worried that another change is coming, so they are in change shock (Syque, 2007). By these the employees be in trauma that the change is arriving which makes them to work less efficiently in their jobs. Kotters Eight Step Change Model: John Kotter introduced Kotters Eight Step Change Model in 1995; he is an professor at Harvard Business School and worlds renowned change expert, the Kotters change model consist of 8 factors and they are. Create urgency: The need of creating urgency for the change comes when the organisation needs to survive so for that we need to convince all the people in the organisation. Form a Powerful Coalition: To survive the change the organisation needs to form a strong team, the team may consist of the most efficient or trustable, reliable persons from the organisation itself. To create a Vision for the Change: After formation of the team they have to construct an vision which will guide and show a clear direction in regards to the change and the result for the company and the after effects of the change. Communicate the Vision: When the team has created an vision in regards to the change they have to communicate this vision with all the empolyees and make sure that every employee is clear of what is happening. Remove Obstacles: Here in this step the management should equally work with the employs to empower the employes and help in removing obstacles. Create Short Term Wins: Here the employs should be provided with short-term wins with rewards which indeed will make the employees to work more efficiently. Bulid On the Change: The seventh step is about persistence because we should influence more change even after the short-term goals are met or the original plan for change will cease and die (Rose, 2002) Anchor the Change in corporate Culture: The final step is to make the change permanent by moving fitting it into the companys culture and practices, such as promotion (Chapman, 2006). Advantages of the Kotters Eight Step Change Model: The Kotters model has a huge benefit that it is step by step model, which indeed is easy to follow and the other benefit is that it not only focus on change only but it even accepts and gets prepared for this change , which helps in the transition. Disadvantages of the Kotters Eight Step Change Model: The only disadvantage for these model is that we can not skip any step where the change will be failed. The model I choose for the organisation Satyam Computer services Pvt.Ltd. is

Sunday, January 19, 2020

The Lesson of the Cliff

The lesson of the cliff by Morton hunt tells a story of himself and how he was able to excel in experiences. It starts off when he was 8 years old. He was influences to climb a cliff with his friends, knowing that he may have been to sick to climb. The group stops halfway there to rest up and then confines their Journey, But Morton became to frighten to continue. Morton became to frightened and plan on going back but he away that it was to far down and became worried that he may fall to his death.His friends abandon his and continue on while he stays in panic. As it got dark his father came and noticed his nervous son on the cliff. His father guides him down the cliff, telling him to move his feet down one at a time on footholds. As Morton comes down step by step, he became braver and braver every passing second. As he reached the bottom to be in the comfort of his father he was taught a life lesson he will never roger.The scenario then shifted to Morton in a 1945 war, he was to fly a reconnaissance plan over enemy territory. Morton worried about this situation that he could sleep, all he could think of was him and his navigator running into enemy territory. Morton then remembered his fathers words of taking it one step at a time and succeed in the mission. This article was a clear sense of inspiration to me. Morton used advise from his father to become a survivor even in the most dangerous f situations.Morton was taught one of the fundamentals of life. When you are faced with a task that appears overwhelming, you decide what the first step is and take in accomplishing or succeeding in this task. If you can break the problem down into a series of steps you need to complete to accomplish your goal,then you must do it. But then, only focus on the step that you need to take next. When that step is taken, focus on the next one. Eventually, you will arrive at your destination.

Saturday, January 11, 2020

Adults and ICT Essay

Ajesh Mehta is a normal employee who works in a pharmaceutical warehouse. This basically means he puts the boxes filled with medicines in the right places and inputs the number of what they are and their details in Microsoft Excel on a computer that he has at his work. He then makes a report on that and gives it to his boss and the other staff members. He uses many technologies. I will list them below and explain how he uses some of those technologies and how it has affected his personal and working life. TECHNOLOGIES THAT AJESH MEHTA USE:   Mobile Phones   CD Rewriters   Personal Organiser Internet Laptop. Email   Digital T. V. Microsoft Excel He says these technologies are a main part of his life and without them he wouldn’t have been able to do his work and enjoy easily. Microsoft Excel Although Ajesh Mehta doesn’t use Microsoft Excel personally but he mainly uses Microsoft Excel for work to do his reports. He says that Excel helps him to put his reports in their correct places very easily. Excel is like a spreadsheet and it is already set up in boxes; and unlike word in which you have to make tables and set them up in the size you want, which takes quite a lot of time, excel has everything ready for you. Before he started to use Excel, he used to have a lot of problems in a lot of different things. For example he always had to use scientific calculator to do all his calculations. But now as excel can do that quickly, he does it very fast. It used to take him about an hour to do all the calculation out the whole amount of time that he took to do his report, but now it only probably takes about fifteen minutes, out of the whole time. As he used to use word, he also had to make lots of tables and set them up in proper sizes. It used to take him about four to five hours just to do a single report as he had to do all the other things to make it ready just so he can do his report. But now the tables are ready for them, which saves him a lot of time and he can do his report in about two hours now. In excel we can also change the size and the colour, and we can also change the font like in word. It can also help you do bar charts like other seawares but very quickly and with easy processes. So in short it has also got the facility to do what other softwares do and plus its own unique ability. Now that he has started using Microsoft Excel, he can do his work quicker and doesn’t have to waste time. Despite all these advantages of Microsoft Excel, there are also disadvantages to this software. For example, there are lots and lots of different facilities that cannot be used by most people. Many people don’t have much knowledge in maths so they do not know how to use those facilities and as you know, Microsoft Excel was especially made for mathematical calculations. It would be quite hard for the user because he/she won’t be able to do those calculations. Another one of the disadvantages is that he feels is that the whole of Microsoft Excel is set up in tables. Then you can only write a little amount in certain places. Although you can spread the cells/boxes, you cannot write like other softwares like Microsoft Word. Ajesh Mehta finds this very annoying as he can’t write paragraphs in Excel. But he can do this by making it suitable but he is unaware of that. Therefore he has to write those things in Word and then copy them into Excel which takes a lot of time. So basically, although he has saved himself a lot of time by using Excel, he still wastes his time on other things. Now that he can complete his work faster, he always feels like doing more and more work. That basically means there is always work present for him. CDs Rewriters CD Rewriters are softwares, which allow you to write CDs on your computers. If you have two CD drives then you put your original CD in you first drive and a blank CD in the second drive and follow the process and the CD will be copied. There can also be CD Rewriters for the computers that only have one CD drive. This type of CD Rewriters copy the original CD on your hard drive and the when you put the blank CD in the drive, it puts that information onto that CD. Ajesh Mehta uses this software very often. He normally puts all information that he need to share with the other staff, onto a CD and then makes copies of that CDs and gives them to his staff. He does this about three times a week. He says it is very useful. He also think it is better than photocopying them lots of time on paper and then giving them out because he thinks that most of the time, the paper is lost before it reaches the person it is meant to be given to. The paper can also be torn before it reaches or it can be tore while in use. But he thinks that if everyone has a copy of the CDs with him or her then he or she can just print it when they need it even in future. Also, it takes very long to print a lot of copies, as they don’t have a laser printer. He would also need a lot of ink to print them of. But if everyone has their own copies then they could print it from their own computers, whenever they want. They can also look at it when at home on their own computers if they want to. On more of his problems with using CD Rewriters is that his company uses a lot of money to buy lots of CDs just so they can give a copy of the work they need to give to the other members of the staff. Another problems he thinks is very important is that after copying a lot of copies of the original CD then the CD gets really scratched which then goes useless. His CD drive also get very used up after using it a lot and they have to change it about every year, which costs a lot of money as well. There can be other ways that he can do this. For example he can use a network so that every person in his staff can have access to that file whenever they want. He could also attach those files via Email and send them to their email addresses. Al this would save their company a lot of time and money. This technology has affected his working life a lot. It saves him time because he can just start copying and then sit and do his other work. Although by using this brilliant technology, he thinks their company wastes a lot of money on blank CDs. But he thinks that even though they use a lot of money on blank CDs, it is useful as it can be used any time in the future as well. But as I said before, email could be very useful to him. Personally he uses CD Rewriters in a very different manner and also in many different ways. Mostly he uses it to make audio CDs of new songs so he can listen to them in his car. He likes listening to new songs very much. He said that he makes new CDs about twice a month. But the disadvantage of this is that when a CD is copied and as it is not original, it gets scratched very easily. So I would suggest that he could just buy a CD with don’t get scratched or he could always listen to radio. As Ajesh Mehta is very fond of keeping his computer up to date and not let it go slow, he re-boots his computer about once every year. So to keep the work that he has saved on his computer, he puts all his work on a CD. For this he uses a CD Rewriter, which he says helps him out a lot as he cant lose his work as after you re-boot a computer you lose all the work on it. But another alternative choice could be that he gets a virus protector which wont let his computer go slow very easily and so he wont have to re-boot his computer once a year. This way he will save time, money and so he will only have to re-boot his computer about once every three years. This is how CD Rewriters have helped Ajesh Mehta quite a lot in his both, working and personal life although he could use other options. This technology hasn’t affected his working styles a lot. But this does help him to take his work home and anywhere else when he needs to. Email Ajesh Mehta has an email account in Yahoo and Hotmail. He has had these accounts for more than four years. Email allows him to do his work very quickly and he also stays in touch with his friends and family. He only uses email for one reason at his work. When he has finished his work, he has to email his boss to say him that the work that he set has been finished and that he is waiting for further instructions. His boss then emails him back and then he does his further work. The problem for him by using this technology is that if he sends an email, it sometimes doesn’t go as the server might be down or there can be many people on that specific website. So he has to wait quite a long time. Sometimes the problem happens that he boss is not online. Even though this hardly ever happens, but it does happen sometimes. He gets very annoyed with this. Sometimes the same thing happens to his boss as well. Only other alternative for this could be to use a Telephone. This would be quicker than email, so it would save him time and he won’t have to stop every time he finishes his work. Although it would cost him money, it would at least be quicker. Personally he uses email to be in touch with his friends and relative. Every once a week he mails his parents and brother to ask how they and their family are. He emails them and gets a reply the next day, which is quite faster than snail mail. Although he keeps in touch with them via email, I would say Telephone would be much better for them. He could call them and talk to them in seconds while for email he has to wait a day for them to reply and sometimes the emails don’t even get through. But the thing is that phoning those costs a lot of money, so even better than Telephone would be Messenger. This way he could chat to them, talk to them and even see them if he wants to. This technology has affected Ajesh Mehta’s life a lot. He says if these technologies won’t there, then he would have had to waste lots of money which he can’t afford and so he won’t have been able to talk to his parents and brother every week. This technology is a very important part of his life. This technology has also affected his working styles. By the help of this technology, he can now send his little work files through files because there is no real point of writing CDs when the files are very small and only he needs it. But the bad effect is that when he gets his work home, he feels like working at home so he doesn’t get any time to socialise. Also by working at home, he doesn’t get any help or equipment that he uses at work. So he wastes his time doing his office work at home and he still doesn’t finish his work how it is supposed to be finished.

Friday, January 3, 2020

A Christmas Carol A Morality Play Essay - 483 Words

A morality play, not unlike some of the popular plays I have seen. I think we all have seen this familiar theme many times over the years. As we head into the Christmas season, where reflective thinking becomes this very theme. I can compare this play with some of these seasonal plays. The play that comes to my mind immediately is, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. This theme of reviewing ones life as we are approached by death or the impending visit of death is very recognizable. Scrooge is visited by the spirit of Marley in the Dickens play and told of his impending doom. Everyman is visited by the spirit of death and told of his impending doom. The twist here is that Scrooge can do something about it if he just wakes up,†¦show more content†¦Think about it, you are flowing along in your life with all things just peachy and bam, you hit a wall and everything looks backwards and upside down, and in the wrong place. Oh no! I am close to death! How can I stop this? You have heard people say stop the world I want to get off. I wonder if that is really what one would really think. So we have been made aware of the presence of death, and it is closer than we want it to be. So we do the review thing. What have I done in my life? Has it been enough? If it has not been enough, how can I change that? Where do we look for that solace? As in the play, we would, I think, go to what we know best. We would first look at how much we have accumulated, what goods we have in our stock rooms. Also, have I been a good neighbor, friend, father, and husband? Lets go back and contrast what Scrooge is also faced with here. He is told that all he cares about is the goods in his life and cares little about the good he can do with his life. Does this not speak to the good deeds we all think about as we go through life? Will it be enough? Has it been of the quality that God would mark as being in that good column? 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