Essay - Models and Theories of Change Review in the Business World...

Models and Theories of Change Review

In the business world, change has always been at the order of the day. In the current so-called information age, this is more prominently the case than ever before (Yeaky, 2002). Ex*****ting ***** developing technology has provided the backdrop for rapid change not only ***** businesses internally and locally, but also externally ***** internationally. Globalization, for example, has become an accepted and well-utilized fact. Large ***** survive by expansion and ***** incorporating international business relations. On the local scale, technology is utilize to increase the speed not only of communication, ***** also of record keeping ***** quality assurance (Leonard, 2003). These practices have become essential in the *****creasingly competitive world of *****. In order to remain at the forefront of competition, it has become essential for companies to keep at ***** *****efront of *****. Basic business functions, record keeping and *****s are facilit*****ed by technology, which provides for time and manpower ***** effectively be invested in innovation and other areas of improvement in the company. Saving time and manpower are however only one area of importance as regards ***** implementation of new technology; other areas might include surveillance, security, accuracy *****, and the like (*****, 2002).

For whichever purpose technology is used in a specific comp*****ny, the fact of change *****s. Along with ***** comes the necessity ***** change management. From a hum*****n ***** perspective, this is no easy task. Many contingencies need to ***** considered in terms of change in ***** business world. Concomitantly with the ***** of *****, it is also true that human beings in generally dislike change, and some resistance will result. Nevertheless, the *****evitability of change makes it impossible ***** avoid it, and managers ********** need to have strategies in place for managing change optimally *****in their specific situations. For the Long Beach Mortgage Tech*****logy Project Plan, for example, ***** changes and additions ***** existing technology has ***** shown not ***** to be necessary in terms of retaining a competitive edge, but ********** in ***** to ***** the speed and effectiveness ***** client communications and business. It has also *****en ***** that networking ***** concomitant security practices are essential to the success of ***** new implementations. The new implementations will furthermore be quite complex, even while they are integrated with ***** systems. In order to manage such wide-scale changes effectively, it is ***** that the IT manager, Mr. Andrade, effectively manage ***** implementation team and the personnel involved in the changes. ***** order to do *****, he has to keep in mind that technological complex*****y and t***** ***** ***** new software that workers have ***** familiarize themselves with involve a certain amount of un*****ty and thus fear and ***** ***** to change (Parker, *****).

***** Chapter 3 of their work Hughes, Ginnett, & Curphy (2002) describe various factors that may influence the process of ********** during change. There may for example exist a tension between individu*****l and group goals, and between the different needs and personalities of group members