Understanding and Coping with Change Change is everywhere, yet very few people seem to embrace the concept. We are, for the most part, creatures of habit and follow daily routines. When change occurs,...

Running Head: UNDERSTANDING AND COPING WITH CHANGE    1
UNDERSTANDING AND COPING WITH CHANGE                    7
STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
UNDERSTANDING AND COPING WITH CHANGE
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Situation Displaying Resistance to Change    3
Abrupt Changing Pattern of Work as an Internal Factor for Resistance to Change    4
Use of Kotter’s Change Management Theory for Overcoming Change Resistance    4
Step Implemented and Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Plan    5
Conclusion    6
References    7
Introduction
    Change is the perpetual fact of the business world and all business organizations has to go through major and minor changes depending upon the situation and the interplay of factors that are located internally as well as externally. The changes incorporated by business organizations are either a chain reaction to market changes or an intentional attempt to organizational betterment. The change implementation and its degree is decided by the management, and the impact is most prominently felt by lower level employees, who had to give up their developed skills to acquire new ones, often offering resistance to change. In the current study, the aspect of understanding and coping with change is discussed in details for an in depth assessment.
Situation Displaying Resistance to Change
    Last year I was appointed as the Floor manager at a Web-Content Writing Firm, which had 150 employees. The first floor of the office building, which had 50 employees and was under my responsibility, was facing issues with change implementation brought in by the strategic manager of the company. The strategic manager, with the sole aim of increasing the daily output from each floor changed the format of the writing as well as shuffled employees, arranging them randomly on each floor. The employees, in order to cope with the change started working slowly, as they gradually learn the new ways of formatting web contents, as a result of which less quantity was generated.
As supported by Borgers, Pilgaard, Vanreusel and Scheerder (2018), after a significant change in organizations, the employees take some time to get back to their full productive levels and they must be supported by management of the company. The manager in order to increase the declining production rate of work, brought in more...