Assignment 2: Environmental Pressures Sandra T. Sims, Student Summer Quarter 2014 HRM 560 – Managing Organizational Change Instructor: Dr. Mary Hair Collins 1. Create a table where at least three (3) organizational pressures and at least three (3) environmental pressures in the organization are illustrated and rank those pressures according to their influence. Corporate organizational pressures describe change both negatively and positively for the company and its employees. These evaluations of environmental and organizational pressures are described using Company XYZ, one of my previous employers. Change takes place as a consequence of strategic pressures driving the organization to new directions. The following is a table The following steps are 1)change is inevitable; 2) without change there can be no improvement; 3) make a commitment to pay the price for change; 4) change must happen within you before it can happen around you; 5) decide what you are not willing to change; and lastly 6) it is never too late to change. (Chisambara, 2013) According to Chisambara, one must prepare for change before the delta of change will happened. In this situation I prepared for change with an open mind that change must happened and that it is never too late to change. The state of improving one’s life through the course of work relations has been prior proven to be of great success to a vast number of people. Weather this change lead to self-development or group relationship development over all any personal employee development always benefits the corporation. Chisambara also stated that attitude is the greatest asset and having a good attitude during the course of change can also reduce the stress of change. 5. Assess how the organization has reacted to the organizational and environmental pressures identified in question 1. Company XYZ, moved quickly to set their performance objectives to implanting a suite of change initiatives. The integration of a recent acquisition rolled out a new operational-improvement effort focused on altering the systems and structures. The economic turmoil of the past few years has brought
