Week 10: Organizational Change and Leadership Processes

This topic covers the importance of organization change and leadership processes. Organization change simply means that organization life cycle changes, which means when a company merge with other business, the management can change. Hence, effective leadership communication is require in order to manage the transformation of a company.

‘Effective leaders begin the framing process by having a clear understanding of their own view of reality and their own goal for the organisation and for communication’ (Miller, 2012).

For example, when a manager feels that a company needs re-arrangement, changes occur. This is when leadership processes take place. Managers must be the leader to manage the changes and direct employees so that they can understand and do what is required to fit the changes. As we can see, communication is important in order transmit the messages and information to the staffs.

Zenger (2013) said that, a succeed leadership is who able to manage the communication effectively in the organizations. For instance, discussion, feedbacks, follow-up and coaching sessions, to monitor and advance the progressions.

However, due to the changes, the communication in the organizations will be affected as well. Thus, regardless of those changes challenges, effective leader should have strong delivery style, great time management and skills training. Tactics can be implemented to cope with changes include: presentations, face to face meetings, Email and newsletters.

References:

Miller, K 2012, Organization Communication, 6^th edn, Wadsworth Cengage Learning, Boston.

Zenger, J 2013, ‘In One Step: How to Ensure Leadership Development Works,’ Forbes 17 October, viewed 19 October 2013, <http://www.forbes.com/sites/jackzenger/2013/10/17/in-one-step-how-to-ensure-leadership-development-works/>.