Influencing Leaders toward Organizational Change

You have met with resistance from leadership and other stakeholders on facilitating change in an organization you were hired to assist.

You must create and present a plan to move leaders and other stakeholders toward change.

Suggest interventions to help integrate various leaders and other stakeholders into the change process. Organizations have various groups of stakeholders; these include:

• Top executive management

• Middle management

• Nonmanagement (e.g., faculty, other professionals, salespersons, assemblers, or clerical staff)

• External partners or associates (e.g., wholesalers or retailers)

• Consumers (e.g., students, patients, or vendors)

For your selected scenario, consider each of these stakeholder groups within the larger organizational culture and respond to the following:

• Identify and describe some special considerations, characteristics, or functions of those in each group that could affect (support or impede) this group's role in and reaction to organization-related change.

• Recommend interventions to address the considerations and help support the change process for this group. Support your suggestions using scholarly resources.

• Suggest interventions you would use to help integrate the various stakeholders and cultures into the general change process. Describe and justify.