Week 6 Assignment: Lewin's Change Management Model
In 250 words respond to the following question:
Forum Question(s) for Response: Lewin's Change Management Model is a relatively easy-to-understand framework for managing change in organizations. What are the three primary characteristics of this change model, and what role does this model play in helping an organization's management staff and employees understand and embrace change?
Please feel free to reference this week reading and remember to use the APA format
Readings for the Week:
Lawler, A., & Sillitoe, J. (2010). Perspectives on instituting change management in large organisations. Australian Universities' Review, 52(2), 43+. http://ezproxy(dot)apus(dot)edu/login?url=http://search(dot)ebscohost(dot)com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ehh&AN=55382076&site=ehost-live&scope=site
Lawrence, E., Ruppel, C. P., & Tworoger, L. C. (2014). The emotions and cognitions during organizational change: The importance of the emotional work for leaders. Journal of Organizational Culture, Communications and Conflict, 18(1), 257+. http://ezproxy(dot)apus(dot)edu/login?url=http://search(dot)proquest(dot)com/docview/1647822664?accountid=8289
Levasseur, R. E. (2010). People skills: Ensuring project success--a change management perspective. Interfaces, 40(2), 159+. http://ezproxy(dot)apus(dot)edu/login?url=http://search(dot)ebscohost(dot)com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=iih&AN=53019008&site=ehost-live&scope=site
O'Neill, P. E. (1990, July). Transforming managers for organizational change. Training & Development Journal, 44(7), 87+. http://ezproxy(dot)apus(dot)edu/login?url=http://search(dot)proquest(dot)com/docview/226996748?accountid=8289
Lewin’s Change Management Model
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Introduction
Change Management model has been described as a relatively easy to understand framework for managing change in different organizations. Lewin’s Change model has got three main characteristics and they will be discussed in this paper (Lawler & Sillitoe, 2010). Some of the characteristics of this model are as discussed below:
Unfreezing
This characteristic entails reducing forces that are hell-bent in maintaining status quo in the organization. Unfreezing is for the purposes of heightening awareness of workers or employees about problems that are rising out of their behavior, and both in the system and in the organizational climate. Unfreezing can only be made possible by introducing information in the system that would show the presence of discrepancies between the desired behavior and the true behavior of employees (Levasseur, 2010).
Change
After the uncertainty brought by the unfreeze stage, change stage is where people begins to resolve the uncertainty and therefore coming up with new ways for doing things in the organization. At this stage, people...