In addition to this pressure, the Hays article allows us to deduce that Wal-Mart is also responding to the internal pressure plied by its laborers, who could represent the risk of unionizing to Wal-Mart. It is thus that the nature of the changes made as reported by the Hays article would be poised to alter the course of Wal-Mart's labor orientation. Thus, in 2004, it would announce a set

Organizational Change Plan -- Part III: As explained in the previous articles, the setting up of an Electronic Medical Record in a healthcare facility is a positive measure to improve the efficiency of the facility and cope up with the constantly changing technological world. The implementation of the system in a health facility is also beneficial in enhancing the quality of services, productivity, and the overall output. One of the most

Exploring the complex web of meaning and interpretation attached to concepts like nostalgia would illuminate aspects of resistance in ways that current rationality-based theories do not. Greater attention to affect, identity, symbolism, aesthetics, and related subjects would provide a useful balance to change and innovation research. It is important to acknowledge the many sides of human beings and consider how they may figure in starting, sustaining, and resisting change. We

Change Management Organizational Change Organizational change aims at ensuring that the implementation of changes in an organization is smooth and successful. Moreover, it ensures that the benefits of these changes are achievable (Burke 2010). The introduction of social media and technology has recently had much effect on business in the recent past. Accessing information by the organization is easier nowadays thus; the need for introducing changes to business to cope with the

This means training that is focused on increasing the knowledge economy of the transforming firm rather than in simply standardizing processes. According to the text by Chapman (2009), this may even call for a change in the linguistic approach to this process. Chapman advises that "training implies putting skills into people, when actually we should be developing people from the inside out, beyond skills, ie., facilitating learning. So focus

Organizational Change and Stress Management How Change Agents Can Contribute to Change Resistance According to Hussey (2000), as far as effective management is concerned, change remains a critical aspect. It can be noted that through their actions or inactions, change agents in most cases end up contributing towards the very occurrence of resistance (Ford et al. 2008). To begin with, by breaking agreements before or during the change process, change agents make