Do you agree with the posted below? why?

Change is daunting in a n organization and is perceived negative by the employees if not addressed or managed properly in the beginning. Organization who neglect these psychological aspects of their employees. Some of the factors that affect change to take place are as follows.

• Job Loss

It is a major reason that employees resist change in the workplace. Employees take changes as negative as they consider factors on how it will affect their day to day job roles.

• Poor Communication and Engagement

lack of it creates more problems than the problem itself. Backlash from employees happens when new ideas are not communicated properly.

• Lack of Trust

Successful businesses have one thing in common their employees trust them. In organizations where there is a lot of trust in management, there is lower resistance to change. Mistrust is a cause for the downward spiral of the company.

• The Unknown

• Poor Timing

Most of the time, its not the act itself that creates the resistance, the timing of its implementation.

In my experience companies who refuse to embark in changing business methodologies for the reason of negative retaliation is because they communicate it poorly to the employees. Some prime examples of resisting to changes are

• Transportation industry Taxi business severely hurt by Ubers platform.
• Airbnb hotel industry

Agile Methodology:

Many examples have shown path ways to the business itself and industry as a whole. Developing an agile workplace culture, organizations now follow the agile approach to manage their major change.

Role of Management and HR

Business managers who, undertake major transformation to stay competitive must work with HR staff to gain employee support.

Management's role

Having the right leadership and buy-in from the executive team is critical to unifying the organization behind a common strategic direction.

. Questions managers should address with employees:

• How will it affect you directly?
• What is changing?
• How will it affect your area?
• Why is it changing?

HR's role

The HR department performs a variety of functions associated with the communication, implementation and tracking of major changes. HR is the point of contact for the employees and staffing. HR can be useful in relaying information to the employees of any major organizational decision.

• Communicate about changes.
• Training programs.
• Prepping informational documents.
• Analyzing impact.