ASSIGNMENT | Change Management and Management Styles

As economic times change, management styles have changed accordingly. New concepts and issues of management styles have been analyzed, synthesized, and evaluated to meet the changing needs of the marketplace. The concept of change management has gained great acceptance and/or disapproval by all sectors, including civilian and military.

Katzenbach (1995) wrote that “Real change leaders are the linchpins connecting three critical forces for organizational change and performance: top leadership aspirations (what are we trying to become?); workforce energy and productivity (how will we climb the mountain?); and the marketplace reality (what do our target customers truly seek, and what can and will our potential competitors really do?) (pp. 8-9).

Analyze the changes in your field to determine if there have been periods of time in which leaders in the field, as well as actual practitioners in the field, have had to address the issue of change management. Specifically, this analysis should be based on a synthesis of the current literature (and literature no older than 1995) to demonstrate how leaders in your field of study have addressed the issue of change management – as well as any changes in management style. Finally, the student should relate these specific changes to their own current, previous, and/or future career paths. This analysis should help to reveal how you have seen changes occur over the past decade or so in your field. Finally, what possible changes, suggestions and/or recommendations would you consider to be necessary in your field of study?
My field of study is, past and present is underlined.

SAMPLE SOLUTION

Change Management
Change (whether on personal or organizational level) is inevitable so they say. At organizational level, the leadership team will always seek to come up with new measures that streamline their operations. Changes can be made based on the needs of the customer, desire to have different products/ services being offered or generally change the organization’s style of operation. However, from whichever dimension an organization chooses to undertake change, the ultimate goal is to change the way of doing things. It is also important to underscore the fact that even though the main reason as to why organizations opt to instigate changes is to have positive or better results, it is always never the case as in some instances, losses/ negative implications arise.
With changes in the economic dynamics coupled by different expectations in society, many organizations have opted to change their way of doing things. One organization that I must say has recorded tremendous changes is the international business management which is apparently my field of…