“Change management means to plan, initiate, realize, control, and finally stabilize change processes on both, corporate and personal level.” (Reckless n.d.). A change is caused due to the changing external conditions and relatively adapting to those conditions. There can be seven stages in people’s perception of change. These stages can be represented as:
Figure 1. Stages in people’s perception of change
(Reckless n.d.). Only by passing through all these stages and analyzing the same, one can successfully handle the organizational change. The factors that pave the way to the growing and changing conditions in organizations are mergers, acquisitions, restructuring, new technology, and downsizing. Organizational change is inevitable in any organization and the skills needed to manage and lead the change successfully lies in the fact of understanding the human factors and then managing it. There can be various reactions and attitudes from the employees regarding a change occurred or occurring, the anxiety of not knowing the fact that stretches out ahead can create stress or resistance in their behavior. When an employee hears of a change to be implemented, he usually has a shock. Instead of this reaction, the employee must analyze exactly the benefits and harmful effects that can be caused by the change. If the employees take the changes to their level, those will surely be threatening for them. The managers understanding this behavior can talk with them and motivate them by explaining the benefits of the change. A good, efficient manager must always think about the change from the employees’ shoes and should get the responses. The reactions to a change may be either positive or negative. As the majority of the employees will have a negative attitude, it may result in absenteeism, low productivity, high stress level, etc. Hence, managing organizational change is very important in every organizational setup. The steps to be taken care of should be that the employees should be open-minded, should stay flexible, should support other coll