6-2 Short Paper- Implementing Change Tara Schirmer OL-322-X5455 Managing Organizational Change 20EW5 5/29/2020
Think of a specific change you would like to bring to your organization. Describe the change, the value that you believe the change would bring to the organization, and the methodology that you would use (top-down or bottom-up) in order to implement the change. So at first I was not sure if I was going to be able to think of something and then it hit me harder than I could have imagined, I would want to change the company's bad habit of being reactive instead of proactive, transparency. Follow me for a moment if you will and let's use the current "Social Experiment" aka the COVID-19 Crisis that is going on shall we? So there was a memo that was sent out companywide on 5/27/2020 and it stated that effective immediately all employees will be required to wear a mask when going in and out of common areas as well as interacting with guests. 3 months ago when this whole "Pandemic" started, wearing a mask was optional. See where this is going? I am using the current situation since they do this consistently with other things within the company but I figured this would be a better example of how pointless this is. On May 27th my husband and I went to an event, over 1000 people showed up and the only people that wore a mask where the cops that supervised and some, NOT all, of the wait staff. My point proven again. My direct supervisor is now requiring that the copy machine be completely wiped down when we scan or copy anything that we are selves did not first print. Seriously? Reactive. My husband had this back in November of last year; he is a 48 year old male, smoker and asthma. Guess what? I didn't have to collect on the life insurance policy I have on him. I am not down playing anything I am making a point, our two adult kids, as well as myself and the four other ladies that I share an office with, two are which in their 70's, NOT one of us got this and I lived, slept and nursed someone who had it before it was common knowledge as to what this was. If you want to act, then do it at the first sign of cause, you do
not wait until it's more than half way done and over with to react. Be proactive and put preventative measures in place and be transparent with the employees of the company. Do not wait until the damage is done and things are coming to a slow end because you live under some sort of rock. Here is my final thought, requiring a mask 3 months after the "Pandemic" started is like requiring condoms at the baby shower. My point is obviously clear, be proactive and plan ahead, adjust or even counter what is going on. It makes no