Organizational Change in Business Environment and the Main Barriers during Organizational Changes

Abstract

In the business environment, the process of organizational change is the need of time, then this need is the result of dynamic and continuous development that have business environment in the domestic economy as well as the modern global economy. Managing the organizational changes is very important process for organizational leadership. On one hand, the leadership constantly aims that the process of planning and implementing changes in the business environment have to be more effective in organization while on the other side, employee resistance during organizational change and the cost of change in the organization have be as minimal. The main objectives in this paper are as following: which are two main barriers in organizational change? Which is the key efficiency of organizational change? What effect they can have on change and how they can manage? Which are the main approaches that businesses should prepare for organizational change? How is reasonable the Kurt Lewin’s model in organizational change, etc. In this research paper are identify different barriers that can appears during process of organizational change in business environment, such as: the first is power and in general the power is characterised as key elements in managerial achievement and as a main source of managerial efficiency in organizational change, then as similar barrier within the organisation change can be social force, it aims to use their social influence to stop or delay changes that affect them negatively in their interest; the second is described as mismanaging change models and approaches in modern business environment and some evidence shown that 60% of reported projects in organization change have failed, then theorists have argued that this model of change in business environment are inadequate in the current economy.

DOI: 10.5901/ajis.2015.v4n3p83