Change Management - How it Effects the Employees

Majority of the companies go through the phase of change management.  What is change management?

Change Management is bringing in transition among individuals, teams and organization for better and profitable future growth and prosperity of the Organization.

One of the biggest troubles management will face is to convince their employees to adapt to the change. Initially they will be hesitant, not ready to change. It is just like our normal human behavior, all of us become little hesitant when suddenly someone tries to pull us out of our comfort zone.

Change management majorly happens at the time of merger/acquisition. Especially when a new management takes over the existing one. In fact different mergers have a different story in itself.

Disney-pixar,is one of the greatest example I can take for a successful merger but on the other hand Quaker-snapple was a  disaster not only for its employees but also for the company too.

It’s very important for the management to always give out hints about the merger or acquisition so that the employees are prepared for the “D” day. We as the HR should make our employees understand the benefits of the change which will be useful for the employees too. If there is a transfer, it becomes more and more difficult for us to convince our employees even if we provide them with all the benefits, increments, they might not be interested to move out of the place.

There might be many employees who are married and settled, for them moving out(transfer) will be like a nightmare. 

Employees who are there with the organisation for more than a decade  might not be comfortable

with present management. The old employees are used to working in  a certain manner and with which they comfortable too. A change in the same will make them irritated and might effect their performance output which might effect the overall organisation output. 

Hence change  should take place slowly but in a steady manner which will benefit all the employees and not effect their productivity a large extent, which will ultimately help in reducing attrition and the company will have happy employees, which the key to the success of any company.