Change in organizational structure of a Company: problems and solution.

Introduction

The problems of changes, restructuring or even hierarchical or functional reorganization of an organization are not the least. Many authors such as OLIVIER MEIRER & AL., In "Strategies and Change (Innovation and Organizational Transformation), discuss at lengthier the causes of failures encountered by organizations during any initiated changes. What is resistance to change in the case of restructuring organization within a company? Basically, the term resistance to change refers to any behavior or attitude indicating a refusal to support or make a change during a change project. What are the factors related to resistance to change?

1) The key factors related to resistance to change

There are several factors related to the resistance or refusal of change in organizations, namely:

• Individual or personal factors: these are those related to each individual in the company (Oneself personality, Oneself culture, beliefs, dying, customs ...)
• Factors related to the nature of change itself: Very often change in itself does not pose problems for employees, but it is the very act of change that is sometimes a little frowned upon. Indeed, here we must communicate on: The benefit that will result from the changes; The compatibility of change with the present situation and even The simplicity of change.
• Strategic factors: Given that in some way each individual who constitutes the organization has its zone of comfort or space of domination, it will always be difficult for both to lose it. The communication on: The strategy for the sharing and balancing of the powers scope; The strategy of rational persuasion and even The strategy ties in with the constraints that could arise are welcome.
• Factors related to the agent of change: Very important, the choice of person who embodies the changes. The choice of the person who initiates or is seen in the eyes of all as the initiator of changes is very important and guaranteed over 40% failure or success.
• Organizational and group factors: Sometimes the very basic structure of the organization can also be a major obstacle to any change.

Of all these factors, we will focus on the first factor, that mean the 'Individual or personal factors'.

2) Individual or personal factors or problems that people are likely to arise as a result of changes in the forms of organizations.

Generally speaking, succeeding in a good structural or organizational change, or even in innovating, raises fundamental questions such as:

• Why make the change?
• What are the causes of change?
• What are the strategies and prerequisites for this change?
• How do you plan to make the change and when?
• Who are the main actors involved in change? What techniques to use and what methods to develop to achieve it?...

As said ''Francis Blanche'': Faced with the changing world, it is better to think about change than to change the dressing. It is quite clear that in most cases, the change of structure or organization is imposed by the movement or the trend of world business. Sometimes, the change of structure, strategy or organization is necessary in order to adapt and feet to evolution of current times.

In general, the individual’s people within the company who usually going again changes are forced to change for many reasons (both personal and collective) namely:

• The break of usual habit: people are resistant to the change of structure, organization or strategy due to the fact that it breaks the routine, it imposes a new way of doing, it questions the methods ...
• The consolidation of the new situation: In general, structural change has a direct impact on people because, as is often said, habits have hard skin (difficult to change). Thus, in any initiative for change, it is up to the HR managers and the Board of managers to find out strategies to successfully achieve the changes they want to impose: a) A strategy for the mobilization and communication phase: at the interpersonal level, we should mobilize people, communicate about the change that is preparing and even demonstrate the need for the necessary change, as this is a first phase to prepare the minds of each other and also push them to begin accepting the future change in their deep subconscious. b)A strategy for the transformation phase: during this period, or the so-called period of change itself, we must find some tricks to inculcate new methods, procedures, rules and everything that will no longer be done as in the pass. c) A strategy for the consolidation phase: indeed, when the first two phases are initiated, it would be wise for a complete change to succeed, to make this novelty become a new culture for all employees of the company a New Way of life, in short it would be necessary to consolidate the novelty as well. 

From all this idea quoted above, it emerges that, one can summarize the personal resistance to change by five phases namely:

• The refusal to understand (for it disturbs the gains);
• The resistance: the individual or the employee accepts the change well, but nevertheless arranges for it to impact less on his past usual habits;
• Employee De-compensating: the employee realizes the inevitability of change;
• Resignation: the employee accepts the change with nostalgia and says in spite of everything that it was better before;
• Integration: Here the employee must be helped by others to integrate and accept change.

However, in most cases, people opposed changes especially when there is poor communication and poor preparation. One of the best recommended method used is to demonstrate all the goodness and the contribution of change in the life of each employee, because if everyone has at his personal level finds a direct interest for him, it should be easy with them to align to changes.

References:    

1. Managing Human Resources: Through Strategic Partnerships/ Jackson, Susan E., Randall S. Schuler, and Steve Werner/ 10-E/ Year: 2009/ Southwestern Publishing/ ISBN: 9780324579673
2. U.S. Department of Transportation - Human Capital Management – Guide to Workforce Planning (Revised June 2008)
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About the author:

TANGUEP Freddy Rolland: Actually Director of Network Operation Center at Viettel Cameroun S.A. (Nexttel); Master's Degree in Engineering of Telecommunication from the University of Maroua of Cameroon.