MANAGING CHANGE

By: Haman Kuamr Ahuja

 Your Perceptions of
Change
• Negative
perceptions….

• Positive
perceptions….
Types of Organizational Change

– Anticipatory changes: planned changes based on

expected situations.

– Reactive changes: changes made in response to

unexpected situations.

– Incremental changes: subsystem adjustments

required to keep the organization on course.

– Strategic changes: altering the overall shape or

direction of the organization.
 A Journey Through Change:

• Stability • Learning
• Comfort Acceptance,
and Commitment
control

• Looking Forward
• Looking
Back

• Fear, Anger • Enquiry,

and Experimentatio
Resistance n and
• Confusio
Discovery
n
 Individual Reactions to Change

• How People Respond to Changes They Like?

– Three-stage process
• Unrealistic optimism
• Reality shock
• Constructive direction
 Individual Reactions to Change

• How People Respond to Changes They Fear

and Dislike?
– Stages
• Getting off on the wrong track
• Laughing it off
• Growing self-doubt
• Destructive direction
FINAL THOUGHT
“IT IS NOT THE
STRONGEST SPECIES
THAT SURVIVE
CHANGE NOR THE
MOST INTELLIGENT,
BUT THOSE WHO ARE
RESPONSIVE TO
CHANGE “