Challenges Related to Organizational Change

Timothy Mueller steers executive strategic initiatives, advertising, technology solution implementation, and organization efficiency programs at Middleton Group, Inc. (doing business as eMiddleton), based in Greenport, NY. The Greenport, NY resident, Timothy Mueller, also handles challenges regarding organizational change management.

A common challenge with organizational change and transformation is employee resistance. Often, this assumes many forms, such as loss of morale, underperformance, reduced revenue, frustrated clients, and project sabotage. For mitigation, communicate openly about the change process, involve all job levels, including the executive, and sustain the change as the new structure.

Secondly, the cost of change regarding budget, time and human resources, and technology constraints significantly derail or slow change implementation. Over the planning period, consider the resources required for communication and public relations strategy, retraining, new technology acquisition, human resource input, redundancy payments, and new branding, if required.

Lastly, executive support and buy-in are significant elements of transformation success to boost performance. The executive should be actively involved in leading-in the restructuring and, ideally, pursue training on change management handling to effectively make and manage the difficult decisions required for a smooth transition. Lack of upper management support and restructuring sponsorship erodes the success rates and limits access to resources for the change.

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