Quinn contrasts the rational planning approach with logical incrementalism. This approach falls somewhere between the planning and emergent approaches. It acknowledges that in complex environments it is difficult for any one group to be aware of all the factors that can impact on the organisation's success and that different stakeholders will have different priorities that need to be recognised.
Quinn argues that organisations require strategies that will work in practice, even if this involves some sort of political compromise. He also argues that successful senior managers tend to be those who have a view of where they want the organisation to be, but deliberately decide to act incrementally when leading the organisation.
They take small steps and build on the experience gained. Based on his observations of senior managers in Xerox, GM and IBM, he concludes that often, in practice, by the time strategies begin to crystallise, elements of them have already been implemented. The emergent approach The view of those who subscribe to the emergent approach is that the key decisions about matching the organisation's resources with the opportunities, constraints and demands in the environment evolve over time and are the outcome of cultural and political processes in organisations.
The nature of the cultural processes will be Page 38 elaborated below but they manifest themselves in the taken-for-granted assumptions and routines that influence strategic decisions. These processes are bound up with the bargaining and negotiation that occurs between different stakeholders, such as functional or professional groups, that each have their own world views and taken-for- granted assumptions.
While the models and tools associated with the planning approach can be a useful aid to change management and some of these, such as SWOT and PEST, will be considered in more detail in Chapter 7 , the apparent objectivity of the analyses they provide needs to be regarded with some degree of caution.
Pettigrew and Whipp argue that no matter how sophisticated they are they have to be applied by someone. Johnson argues that while individuals and groups within organisations may hold varying sets of beliefs, there is likely to exist, at some level, a core set of beliefs and assumptions held relatively in common and taken for granted by all managers.
He refers to this as the organisational paradigm also referred to by others as the shared mental model and argues that it is this paradigm that influences how managers perceive, interpret and make sense of their environment. Organisational learning and strategy formulation Exponents of the emergent approach to strategy formulation, such as Pettigrew and Whipp , argue that strategy emerges from the way organisations, at all levels, process information, especially information about the relationship between the organisation and its environment.
The quality of this information processing is influenced by the relevance of the shared mental model or taken-for-granted paradigm. If organisations are to develop strategies that will ensure alignment and a strong competitive position, the shared mental model needs to be subject to revision.
This is particularly the case if conditions change in ways that could affect the assumptions and beliefs on which the shared mental model is based. If organisations are to formulate effective strategies they need to have the capacity to learn from their experience and to use this learning to modify the shared mental model that guides the way they manage strategic change.
The collective nature of learning is especially important in complex and turbulent environments because in such circumstances senior managers may not be the best-placed individuals to identify opportunities and threats.
Organisational members, at all levels, who are involved in boundary-spanning activities such as procurement, technical development or sales may have data that could provide a valuable input to strategy formulation. Furthermore, the quality of response to any threats or opportunities that are identified may require individuals and groups located in different functions to collaborate and learn from each other in order to design and produce high-quality products or services in ever-shorter time frames.
Shared mental models, rules and behaviour in organisations Swieringa and Wierdsma conceptualise organisations as a set of explicit and implicit rules that prescribe the way members behave see Figure 4. These rules are based on insights which represent what is known and understood. For example, there are rules about the structure of the organisation that prescribe how activities will be grouped and responsibilities allocated, and there are rules about how resources are procured and used and about how people are managed and rewarded.
These rules reflect the mental models subjective theories, shared meanings or beliefs through which organisational members examine and make sense of their experience. The shared mental model represents the basic assumptions that underpin the organisation's culture. Schein , p. Figure 4. Page 40 Learning to behave in accordance with the rules So long as the rules lead to behaviours that produce desired results there will be no need to change the rules.
The only requirement will be for individual learning. Organisational members will have to learn to behave in accordance with the rules. For example, if an individual is promoted into a position that involves being responsible for a budget he or she will not only have to develop an understanding of the rules relating to the management of budgets, but will also have to acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to behave in accordance with these rules.
This kind of learning, however, may not always be sufficient to guarantee organisational success. Collective learning and the modification of rules Organisational collective learning occurs when a group recognises something that offers a more effective way of functioning.
It has already been noted that organisations will be more effective when their major components such as structure, technology, systems and people are congruent with each other and when there is a good fit between the organisation and the environment.
Organisational learning involves achieving and maintaining this fit or, when confronted by discontinuities in the external environment, finding a new and more productive fit. This, in turn, involves organisational members diagnosing the organisation's predicament including the consequences of their past behaviour , integrating this understanding into their shared mental models and using it as a basis for modifying, as required, the rules that guide decision-making and action.
This process is similar to that referred to by Daft and Weick who describe organisations as open social systems that seek and interpret information about their environment in order to provide a basis for action. Modifying the rules via single- and double-loop learning Argyris and Schon distinguish between two different kinds of organisational collective learning. Single-loop learning entails the detection and correction of errors leading to a modification of the rules within the boundaries of current thinking.
It involves organisational members collectively refining their mental models about how the world operates in order to do things better. It does not offer any fundamental challenge to current thinking. The effect of single-loop learning is to promote an incremental approach to strategy formulation and change management. Double-loop learning is a more cognitive process; it occurs when the assumptions and principles that constitute the governing variables or shared mental model are examined and challenged.
This kind of learning challenges Page 41 accepted ways of thinking and can produce a new understanding of situations and events, which in turn, can lead to the development of new rules that require organisational members to change their behaviour and do things differently or even do different things. While double-loop learning is often seen as a desirable goal, it can be difficult to attain in practice, a point that will receive further consideration below.
Triggers for double-loop learning When there is a good fit between the organisation and its environment and when this leads to the achievement of desired levels of performance, there is a high chance that the prevailing shared mental model will be reinforced. The only collective learning in these circumstances will be single-loop learning associated with the detection and correction of errors.
This kind of learning is often associated with continuous improvement. Double loop collective learning is most likely to occur when desired performance levels are not achieved and when feedback signals a need to re-examine the relevance of the shared mental model.
Leroy and Ramanantsoa refer to incongruous events that violate conceptual frameworks as triggers for this kind of learning, and Fiol and Lyles assert that some type of crisis is necessary to trigger higher level or double-loop learning. Triggers are often associated with discontinuities such as the appointment of a new leader or dramatically altered market conditions. Can organisations learn or is it only individuals that learn?
The approach to organisational learning presented here focuses on the development of supra-individual or shared mental models that provide a basis for effective action.
These shared mental models furnish organisations with a conceptual framework for perceiving and interpreting new information and for determining how stored information can be related to any given situation. They persist over time, despite changes in organisational membership. This implies that organisations have collective memories that are not wholly dependent on the knowledge stored in the minds of current members.
It is assumed that knowledge can also be stored in files, procedural manuals, routines, traditions and conventions and that this collective memory enables past experience to be applied to current problems.
Douglas challenges this view. She concedes that institutional thinking can exist in the minds of individuals and she accepts that much of the learning that goes on in an individual's head is influenced by what other organisational members know and by the kinds of information present in the organisational environment.
However, she does not go along with the view that organisations, as collective entities, can learn. Daft and Weick are more comfortable with the concept of collective or organisational learning. They base their view of organisations as interpretation systems on the assumption that they have both cognitive systems and memories. Page 42 While they recognise that it is individuals who send and receive information and in other ways carry out the interpretation process, they argue that the organisational interpretation process is something more than that which is undertaken by individuals.
Individuals come and go, but there is an order and regularity in the way that organisational members continue to respond. The implication is that organisations, as well as individuals, develop mental models. March appears to support this view. He presents learning in organisations as a mutual process that leads to a convergence between organisational and individual beliefs.
While there may be an external reality that is independent of beliefs about it, both individuals and organisations develop their own mental models and beliefs about reality. The organisation stores the knowledge that it accumulates, over time, from the learning of its members in the form of an organisational code of received truth.
This code or mental model which influences the explicit and implicit rules and procedures that regulate behaviour in the organisation is modified by the beliefs of individuals, and at the same time individual organisational members are socialised into the beliefs about reality that are associated with the shared mental model or organisational code. Thus, over time, the organisation's mental model affects the beliefs of individuals while it is being affected by those beliefs.
Although March argues that this convergence is generally useful for both the individual and the organisation, he recognises a potential threat to the effectiveness of organisational learning if individuals adjust to the shared mental model or organisational code before the code can learn from them. This threat is most likely to manifest itself and undermine organisational learning when a group develops a strong ideological commitment to the code or shared mental models and dismisses or suppresses deviant thinking as either irrelevant or potentially dangerous.
The revision of shared mental models — the key to collective learning Shared mental models need to be fluid and open to modification if they are to provide an effective basis for assessing the environment and planning action. Unfortunately, once established, they may be resistant to change. It may not be until this strategic drift manifests itself in an unacceptable poor level of performance that the need to modify the paradigm is eventually recognised.
However, this process is rarely problem-free. Three sources of difficulty will be considered. Page 43 Poor appreciation of the systemic qualities of organisations Many individuals and groups have a parochial and limited view of their role and this restricts their ability to contribute to organisational learning.
Often they focus all their attention on the immediate task and fail to appreciate how this relates to the overall purpose of the organisation. This type of thinking is important but, sometimes, people become too preoccupied with the details of their bit of the organisation and ignore how what they do affects others and how this impacts on the overall effectiveness of the business.
Some of the interventions discussed in Chapter 16 are designed to promote systemic thinking. Lack of accessible channels for dialogue and the sharing of meaning An important factor that can influence an organisation's ability to learn is the willingness of individual organisational members to share with others the meaning they have constructed for themselves as they encountered new experiences and ideas. Issues of confidentiality may prevent some sharing but there are occasions where knowledge is withheld for what Dixon describes as political and logistical reasons.
These include gaining a personal competitive advantage, or a perceived lack of interest, on the part of others, in what the individual might want to share.
When learning is shared the data on which it is based are open to challenge. Others can reassess the reasoning and logic that led to conclusions. In other words meanings are not just exchanged. Dixon argues that shared meaning is constructed in the dialogue between organisational members. She believes that in the process of articulating one's own meanings and comprehending the meanings others have constructed, people alter the meanings they hold.
This joint construction of meaning is the essence of organisational learning. Unfortunately, the conditions that facilitate this process are often lacking. This has prompted many organisations to experiment with interventions designed to overcome some of the barriers to understanding between individuals and groups.
This kind of intervention is considered in Chapter Ideologies Reference has already been made to how ideology can distort the free flow of meaning. In both these examples the group could be seen as holding a supra-individual schema that distorted its understanding of the information world in a way that made it blind to certain important aspects of its environment. What is underestimated is the degree to which the direction and sampling are becoming increasingly narrow under the influence of growing consensus and enthusiasm for the restricted set of beliefs.
Janis describes groupthink as a deterioration of mental efficiency, reality testing and moral judgement that is the result of in-group pressure. He defines eight symptoms of groupthink: 1. The group feels invulnerable. There is excessive optimism and risk-taking.
Warnings that things might be going awry are discounted by the group members in the name of rationality. There is an unquestioned belief in the group's morality. The group will ignore questionable stances on moral or ethical issues.
Those who dare to oppose the group are called evil, weak or stupid. There is direct pressure on anyone who opposes the prevailing mood of the group.
Individuals in the group self-censor if they feel that they are deviating from group norms. There is an illusion of unanimity. Silence is interpreted as consent. There are often self-appointed people in the group who protect it from adverse information. These people are referred to as mind-guards by Janis.
All too often individuals and organisations fail to exploit the full potential for learning because they are unaware of the extent to which their mental models filter out important information. Covey contends that while people think they are objective and see things as they are, they actually see what they have been conditioned to see. Exercise 4. Consider the quality of organisational or collective learning in your organisation, or in a part of the organisation you are familiar with.
When making your assessment, reflect on the following: What is the balance between single- and double-loop collective learning and how does this relate to the kinds of change continuous or discontinuous confronting the organisation or unit?
Do people fully appreciate the systemic nature of the organisation and are they aware of how what they do affects overall organisational effectiveness? Are people motivated to share experiences and ideas, and seek a more effective way of operating? Is there an ideological commitment to established ways of doing things that discourages innovation and the exploration of new possibilities?
Three different approaches to strategy formulation and implementation were considered and the effect of factors such as culture and organisational politics on the quality of information processing was highlighted.
Page 46 We then examined the nature of organisational learning and how it contributes to strategic change management, and different kinds of collective learning were discussed.
Single-loop learning is concerned with continuous improvement through doing things better; double-loop learning involves challenging current thinking and exploring the possibility of doing things differently or doing different things. The final section focused on impediments to organisational learning such as a failure to appreciate the systemic nature of organisations, the lack of accessible channels for dialogue and the sharing of meaning and pressures for conformity that constrain creative thinking.
References Argyris, C. Covey, S. Daft, R. Dixon, N. Douglas, M. Egan, G. Fiol, C. Janis, I. Johnson, G.
Mabey and B. Lank, A. Leroy, F. March, J. Miles, R. Quinn, J. Schein, E. Swieringa, J. Walsh, J. Weick, K. Staw ed.
We then move on to consider the main features of some frequently cited models for conceptualising the change process and present a generic model that will provide the structure for Chapters 6—18 of this book. Exercise 5. The scenario: A long-established bank is facing strong competition from new entrants into the retail banking market.
The new entrants specialise in the provision of telephone and internet banking services and have a lower cost base because they do not carry the overheads associated with a large branch network. A director of the branch network in the traditional bank has proposed a strategy for responding to this competition. It involves closing down 20 per cent of the branch network in order to reduce overheads and increase net revenue per customer.
At this stage the details of the strategy have not been finalised. For example, the branches targeted for closure could be city-centre branches occupying expensive properties or small rural branches occupying low-cost premises but with relatively few customers of high net worth to the bank.
Imagine that you are a consultant who has been engaged by the director who initiated the proposal. Your role is to help her: explore the feasibility of the proposal to increase profitability by contracting the branch network; design a change plan that could be implemented if it is decided to go ahead with the closures.
You are invited to review the list of actions presented in Table 5. Add, in the space provided in Table 5. You are allowed to add up to four additional actions. Think about how the actions might be sequenced from start to finish. For each action, identify whether you think it should occur early or late in the change management process. You can record this view in the space provided on the right hand side of Table 5.
Table 5. Identify the sequence of actions from start to finish, recognising that some actions may occur in parallel or be repeated. Identify relationships between actions in your plan and consider how different actions might be categorised as separate steps or distinctive parts of your plan. Summarise your plan on a separate sheet or in the space provided below as a flow diagram, including descriptive labels for the main aspects or stages of your plan.
You might find it helpful to print all of the actions listed in Table 5. A version of this exercise, Managing the Merger, base on managing a merger between two food retailing organisations has been developed by John Hayes and Peter Hyde. Email: sales mlr. You might find it useful to compare this generic model with the model you developed to manage the branch closures. As you read the remaining chapters of this book you might also find it helpful to reflect on how the content of each chapter might influence your approach to managing this kind of change.
Weick and Quinn make a similar distinction and refer to change that is continuous incremental and episodic discontinuous. Continuous change. They note that a common presumption is that continuous change is emergent. Discontinuous change. Discontinuous or episodic change, according to Weick and Quinn, occurs during periods of divergence when organisations are moving away from their equilibrium conditions. The failure of organisational members to create a continuously adaptive organisation leads to a failure that can be the trigger for planned change see Dunphy, Lewin provided some useful insights into the nature of change that are very relevant for those who seek to intentionally change the status quo.
He argued that the state of no change does not refer to a situation in which everything is stationary. A change in the behaviour of an individual, group or organisation can be likened to a change in the river's velocity or direction. In a work situation, for example, certain hostile and friendly actions may occur between two groups in interdepartmental meetings.
Page 52 Lewin argued that any level of behaviour is maintained in a condition of quasi- stationary equilibrium by a force field comprising a balance of forces pushing for and resisting change. This level of behaviour can be changed by either adding forces for change in the desired direction or by diminishing the opposing or resisting forces.
Both of these approaches can result in change but, according to Lewin, the secondary effects associated with each approach will be different. Where change is brought about by increasing the forces pushing for change this will result in an increase in tension. If this rises beyond a certain level it may be accompanied by high aggressiveness especially towards the source of the increased pressure for change , high emotionality and low levels of constructive behaviour.
On the other hand, where change is brought about by diminishing the forces that oppose or resist change the secondary effect will be a state of relatively low tension. This argument led Lewin to advocate an approach to managing change that emphasised the importance of reducing the restraining forces in preference to a high-pressured approach that only focused on increasing the forces pushing for change.
He argued that approaches which involve the removal of restraining forces within the individual, group or organisation are likely to result in a more permanent change than approaches which involve the application of outside pressure for change.
Achieving a lasting change Lewin highlighted the concept of permanency. He suggested that successful change requires a three-step procedure that involves the stages of unfreezing, moving and refreezing. Dawson and Kantor et al. They argue that organisations need to be fluid and adaptable and that the last thing they need is to be frozen into some given way of functioning. In his view it is not enough to think of change in terms of simply reaching a new state, for example revised management practices that include a new pattern of behaviour towards subordinates.
He asserted that permanency, for as long as it is relevant, needs to be an important part of the goal. This state may be very brief and involve little more than taking stock before moving on to yet more change.
It is, however, important to think in terms of consolidation in order to minimise the danger of slipping back to the way things were before. Managing change, therefore, involves helping an individual, group or organisation: 1. Hendry testifies to Lewin's lasting contribution to change management.
Lippitt, Watson and Westley expanded Lewin's three-stage model. After reviewing descriptions of change in persons, groups, organisations and communities they felt that the moving phase divided naturally into three sub-stages: 1.
The clarification or diagnosis of the client's problem; 2. The examination of alternative routes and goals, and establishing goals and intentions for action; 3.
The transformation of intentions into actual change efforts. They also argued that change managers can only be effective when they develop and maintain an appropriate relationship with those involved in or affected by the change.
This led them to introduce two further stages into the change process; one concerned with the formation and the other with the termination of relationships.
Egan developed a model that reflects Lewin's three stages of unfreezing, moving and refreezing, but it focuses most attention on diagnosing, visioning and planning for change, that is, on the early stages of Lewin's process model. The first part of Egan's model emphasises three issues: The current scenario: assessing problems and opportunities, developing new perspectives, and choosing high impact problems or opportunities for attention.
The preferred scenario: developing a range of possible futures, evaluating alternative possibilities to establish a viable agenda for change, and gaining commitment to the new agenda. Strategies and plans for moving to the preferred scenario: brainstorming strategies for getting there, choosing the best strategy or best-fit package of strategies, and turning these strategies into a viable plan. The second part of Egan's model relates to the period of transition during which plans have to be implemented.
This phase emphasises tactics that can be employed to adapt the plan to the immediate situation and accommodate unforeseen complications, and logistics that involve securing essential resources when required.
The final part of the model gives some attention to the consolidation of change. Beckhard and Harris present a three-stage model that focuses on defining the present and the future, managing the transition, and maintaining and updating the change.
Special consideration is given to some of the issues associated with the moving or transitional stage, including the need for management mechanisms, the development of activity plans and the gaining of commitment from key stakeholders.
These three models highlight the importance of: Diagnosis — change managers need to give attention to where the organisation is now and to what a more desirable and attainable state would look like.
Strategies and plans to move the organisation towards the desired state. Implementation — translating intentions strategies and plans into actual change efforts. Implementation also involves managing the interpersonal and political issues associated with change.
The model Hayes and Hyde presented below provides a conceptual framework for thinking about the management of change, and incorporates many of the features of the process models reviewed above. While the context here is organisational change, the same model can be applied to change at the level of the individual and the group.
At first glance this model suggests that change is a neat, rational and linear process. This is not always the way that it unfolds and is experienced in practice. Sometimes a desired end state is not obvious at the beginning of the process, a point that will be elaborated later. Also the dotted lines in Figure 5. Typically it is an ongoing process. Often new pressures for change emerge before the current change initiative has been completed.
The start of the process is the recognition that external events or internal circumstances require a change to take place. Recognition involves complex processes of perception, interpretation and decision making that, if not managed carefully, can lead to inappropriate outcomes, for example the organisation might fail to change when it needs to or it may change when change is not required.
Start of the change process. The start of the change process involves translating the need for change into a desire for change, deciding who will manage the change and, especially where an external change agent is introduced to help with this process, establishing a workable and effective change relationship. Figure 5. Page 55 It may be more or less explicit and formal, but at some point it typically involves a review, feasibility study or project.
Critical questions that need to be considered at this stage are: 1. Who to involve, 2. What to make public if anything , and 3. Who should have management responsibility. It is also important to begin thinking about how to unfreeze others and gain acceptance that change is needed. Although reviewing the present and identifying the future state may seem at first sight to be separate and distinct activities, they are often integrated in practice. There is also some debate about whether the process should in fact start with looking at the present or the future.
On the other hand, focusing too heavily on the present may limit horizons and lead to the goals of change being too cautious and constrained by current experience. Where radical or transformational change is needed it may be better to consider the direction of change than to concentrate on the start point.
For these reasons, Figure 5. Reviewing the present state. The present state of the organisation can often only be understood in terms of the context of its past history and its external environment. The precise objectives for reviewing the present state will depend upon the type of change that is being managed. Common reasons are to: 1. Data gained form this kind of review can also be used to help assess how organisational members and other stakeholders will react, and to prepare people for change.
Identifying the future state. What is required when identifying the future state depends on the kind of change that is being undertaken and on the role of the change managers in the overall process. If, on the other hand, their role is to implement a change that is being imposed from elsewhere, their task might be more limited to thinking through and visioning the likely impact of the change.
The way the diagnostic stage is managed can affect the way that the need for change is or is not translated into a desire for change. Organisational Page 56 members are more likely to be motivated to let go of the status quo and seek a more desirable state if the diagnostic process: 1. Prepare and plan for implementation. Detailed analysis of the future and present state will lead to the identification of a long list of things which will need to be done in order to make the proposed change a reality.
There will be different lead times associated with the various tasks, interdependencies between them and resource and other constraints.
All of these things need to be taken into account when developing an implementation plan. However, it is important that implementation is not viewed as only a technical activity. Implementation has an important political dimension. It needs to address the extent to which people are ready for and accepting of change and whether the process threatens them in any way. Choices need to be made, such as which method to adopt to implement the change and whether to proceed to full implementation or start with a trial or pilot.
Implement change. Whatever has been planned now needs to be implemented and the focus shifts from planning to action. Attention also needs to be given to monitoring and control to ensure that things happen as intended. There are two basic approaches to implementing change.
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