Change Management
Change can be defined as the development of new approaches to improve the way in which you do business. Change is the most important factor in successful business management today. Without change it is challenging for a company to progress and continue to see success each year (Ceptureanu, 2016). Change is needed to improve processes and to keep up with competitors and to stay in tune with what is trending now. Change is essential in organizations that aspire to prosper in an uncertain, volatile, complex, and ambiguous environment. This paper speaks to managing change, resistance, and sustaining change as well as relating these different aspects of change back to the case study “The Challenger and Columbia Shuttle Disasters”. …show more content…
Within this case study the main challenges were around the lack of proper planning by NASA. In addition, other challenges face were the fact that there was a lack of consensus and employee resistance, as well as the communication which is an in house problem of NASA. NASA tried its best to implement changes in order to make the SRM stronger but it did not work out due to the resistance to change. Why it was all in vain in spite of more than a decade of NASA people deputation to Quality Assurance functions? (They were deputed in the early 1986, but still the disaster happened in Columbia in February 2003. - so in these long 17 years, what did they learn about safety? Why safety was not implemented - or is it not practical - are they trying to say that space shuttles are bound to blast and disasters are inevitable? This was accounted to the foam insulation slab tile breaking apart and falling on the aluminum wing due to the reentered heat. The safety breach that killed 7 astronauts was due to O rings that failed to open. But the Villains in the Marshal center are to be blamed – in spite of the warning to not launch unless the temperature rises above 53 degree Fahrenheit, they idiotically launched it at subzero temperatures, and as the result, the O rings failed to open, the shuttle crashed, and all the 7 astronauts on board were
Change can be defined as the development of new approaches to improve the way in which you do business. Change is the most important factor in successful business management today. Without change it is challenging for a company to progress and continue to see success each year (Ceptureanu, 2016). Change is needed to improve processes and to keep up with competitors and to stay in tune with what is trending now. Change is essential in organizations that aspire to prosper in an uncertain, volatile, complex, and ambiguous environment. This paper speaks to managing change, resistance, and sustaining change as well as relating these different aspects of change back to the case study “The Challenger and Columbia Shuttle Disasters”. …show more content…
Within this case study the main challenges were around the lack of proper planning by NASA. In addition, other challenges face were the fact that there was a lack of consensus and employee resistance, as well as the communication which is an in house problem of NASA. NASA tried its best to implement changes in order to make the SRM stronger but it did not work out due to the resistance to change. Why it was all in vain in spite of more than a decade of NASA people deputation to Quality Assurance functions? (They were deputed in the early 1986, but still the disaster happened in Columbia in February 2003. - so in these long 17 years, what did they learn about safety? Why safety was not implemented - or is it not practical - are they trying to say that space shuttles are bound to blast and disasters are inevitable? This was accounted to the foam insulation slab tile breaking apart and falling on the aluminum wing due to the reentered heat. The safety breach that killed 7 astronauts was due to O rings that failed to open. But the Villains in the Marshal center are to be blamed – in spite of the warning to not launch unless the temperature rises above 53 degree Fahrenheit, they idiotically launched it at subzero temperatures, and as the result, the O rings failed to open, the shuttle crashed, and all the 7 astronauts on board were