Advantages And Disadvantages Of Successful Change Management

Successful change management is key to ensuring companies remain viable as organisations face mounting challenges in an increasingly competitive environment. Organisations continue to be competitive when they support and employ continuous and transformational change (Cohen, 1999). McClean (2011, 78) indicates without change it is almost certain “if we do what we always did we will get what we always got”. As change is introduced, the one biggest problem to effectively managing organisational transformation are the people issues that may occur. This is supported by Bridges (2003, 3) who suggests “It isn’t the change that do you in, it’s the transitions” where he goes on to differentiate between change as being the physical aspect and the transition

According to Jones (2007) this structure offers employees a chance to learn from each other and become more specialised and productive thus improving operational efficiencies within that group. However, Elsaid et al (2013) identified disadvantages of functional groupings in that coordination of work across functional boundaries can become a difficult management challenge and employees may develop a narrow departmental focus, impeding understanding of what is important to the

Each Hamilton Sundstrand product group had been organised into a divisional structure with the exception of the engineering group. The engineering groups in each division remained tied to that division but reported up through the Hamilton Sundstrand functional engineering organisation. This produced a centralised engineering organisation with a much taller