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Created: 2024/05/07 11:20
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# Reasons for accepting or rejecting changes

- Change is not necessary - we're doing fine
- Proposed change is not feasible
- Will not be cost effective
- Cultural resistance
- Will involve personal loss
- Lack of trust
- Fear of failure 

# Techniques for reducing resistance to change

## Techniques

### Education & communication



### Participation



### Facilitation and support

E.g., when post transferring, offer, well, money.

### Negotiation



### Manipulation and co-op



### Coercion

Forcefully or with threat (loss of job).

# Change capable organization

## Link the present and the future



## Make learning a way of life



## Support an entrepreneurial mindset



## Actively support and encourage day-to-day improvements



## Ensure diverse team



## Encourage mavericks



# Guidelines for implementing change

- Creating a sense of urgency
- Communicating a clear vision about the benefits
- Identify for and against
- Create a broad team
- Use competent change agents
- Issues impacting comfort zones
- Stress management
- Monitoring, feedback, and adjustments

# Innovation & creativity in organization

- Innovation is change
- Act of implementing creative ideas is innovation

E.g., 
- Sunsilk hijab
- Traditional car to Hybrid car to Electric vehicle

## Types of innovations

- Radical: new products
- Incremental: modifying existing (for mass production)
- Technical: manufacturing process
- Management

## Types of creativity

- Individual
- Group/collective
- Exploratory

## Promoting innovation & creativity in organization

### Organization culture

- Supportive to innovation

### Reward system



### Encouraging periodical brainstorming of different levels: trendsetting

- Periodic meeting to encourage