Creating Readiness For Organizational Change Paper

In any organization, change is inevitable, whether it be planned change or unplanned change. How we handle the change can determine the results we get whether good or bad, so it is imperative that organizations properly create readiness for change amongst everyone involved in order to minimize the risk of resistance to change. I chose the article, “Creating Readiness for Organizational Change” written by Achilles Armenakis and a panel of other authors to demonstrate how an organization can effectively create readiness for change and also to help me gain a better understanding of the process involved because the organization that I work for continues to go through change. I will use a personal situation to hopefully be able to incorporate some of the valuable information and concepts outlined in the article to demonstrate how my organization has been able to help move change and positively enact change on a particular project.
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Because resistance to change is a natural phenomenon experienced by any organization when creating …show more content…
It can then be determined, based on urgency and employee readiness, whether the change should be characterized as Low Readiness/Low Urgency,where the employees are not ready for change and there is ample time to create that readiness; Low Readiness/High Urgency where the employees are not ready but there is great urgency in implementing the needed changes; High Readiness/Low Urgency where the employees are ready for change but there is little urgency in implementing it; High Readiness/High Urgency where employees are ready for change and the time available to implement the change is short. By using these combinations of readiness and urgency, an organization can prioritize as needed and then guage when change can or should be